Monthly Archives: December 2012

Entypo – 250+ carefully crafted pictograms

Entypo – 250+ carefully crafted pictograms

Font Awesome, the iconic font designed for use with Twitter Bootstrap

Font Awesome, the iconic font designed for use with Twitter Bootstrap

Yule Blog 2012-13: Meaning in 3-D

Yule Blog 2012-13: Meaning in 3-D “Two hundred years ago ‘enlightened’ minds generally accepted the existence of God without much trouble but boggled at the concept of the Trinity. Today, those minds have more trouble accepting the existence of God; if they do accept that existence, the problem of the Trinity doesn’t loom particularly large […]

Smartphones, tablets make us think about technology like the Amish do.

Smartphones, tablets make us think about technology like the Amish do. A Slate article I actually kinda like.

Blog: Via Meadia: A Millenial Church Emerges

A Millenial Church Emerges by Walter Russell Mead Via Meadia

Blog: Ezra Klein: The Republican Party in one tweet

The Republican Party in one tweet by Ezra Klein Ezra Klein

Blog: The American Conservative » Rod Dreher: Church As Clubhouse

Church As Clubhouse by Rod Dreher The American Conservative » Rod Dreher

Urban Dictionary: gwarthock

Urban Dictionary: gwarthock A species of Internet Troll identified and described in “The Onion’s Extremely Accurate History of the Internet, Part 6: Interactivity—Joining the Conversation About Hitler”.

Blog: Via Meadia: Yule Blog 2012-13 Edition: The Meaning of Christmas

Yule Blog 2012-13 Edition: The Meaning of Christmas by Walter Russell Mead Via Meadia

Blog: The American Conservative » Rod Dreher: Money Changes Everything

Money Changes Everything by Rod Dreher The American Conservative » Rod Dreher

Blog: askblog: Exaggeration in Political Stereotypes

Exaggeration in Political Stereotypes by Arnold Kling askblog

Blog: Via Meadia: Yule Blog 2012-13: The Hinge of Fate

Yule Blog 2012-13: The Hinge of Fate by Walter Russell Mead Via Meadia

The best interface is no interface | Cooper Journal

The best interface is no interface | Cooper Journal “Following three simple principles, we can design smarter, more useful systems that make our lives better.”

Blog: Svbtle Featured: Exec Cleaning, or the challenges scaling a real world business

Exec Cleaning, or the challenges scaling a real world business by Justin Kan Svbtle Featured

Blog: Baseball Prospectus: Punk Hits: Why Do We Fear The Beard? by Ian Miller

Punk Hits: Why Do We Fear The Beard? by Ian Miller (author unknown), Baseball Prospectus

YouTube: Malcolm Gladwell Keynote Speech at SapientNitro iEX 2011

Malcolm Gladwell Keynote Speech at SapientNitro iEX 2011 SapientNitro Interesting thing in the Q&A afterwards about the tradeoff between resources and freedom. Sometimes, to solve a problem, what you don’t want is to give somebody more resources, what you want to give them more freedom. Don’t throw more money at crafting expensive health-care trials, let […]

YouTube: Malcolm Gladwell Explains Why Human Potential Is Being Squandered

Malcolm Gladwell Explains Why Human Potential Is Being Squandered crossroadstimes

YouTube: SapientNitro iEX 2012 Malcolm Gladwell Keynote Speech

SapientNitro iEX 2012 Malcolm Gladwell Keynote Speech SapientNitro WWII-generation paradigm: hierarchical organization Baby boomer paradigm: treat me like an individual! Millenial paradigm: networked/social organization What’s the tradeoff: networks are open, not closed. Decentralized, not centralized. Flexible, not disciplined. Not necessarily better or worse, just different. “That notion of being treated and seen as an individual […]

Blog: Svbtle Featured: Square’s Gift Card Gift To Small Merchants

Square's Gift Card Gift To Small Merchants Matthew Panzarino, Svbtle Featured

Flickr: She’s still up there, isn’t she?

She’s still up there, isn’t she? by santheo