Monthly Archives: December 2012

Planning His Legacy, Cisco Chief Maps an Expansion – NYTimes.com

Planning His Legacy, Cisco Chief Maps an Expansion – NYTimes.com “Cisco’s plan is to create networks of sensors and data analysis systems, working closely with government officials and civil engineering companies. And it will work with companies to set up efficient mining, manufacturing and distribution systems.”

Blog: NotGraphs Baseball: Ode on a Ken Phelps Starting Lineup Action Figure

Ode on a Ken Phelps Starting Lineup Action Figure Patrick Dubuque, NotGraphs Baseball

Simulated brain mimics human quirks

Simulated brain mimics human quirks “Just like human volunteers, Spaun was better at remembering the first and last number in a series. Also like people, Spaun took longer to count to higher numbers.”

Blog: Via Meadia: The Coming: Part Two

The Coming: Part Two Walter Russell Mead, Via Meadia

Nick Cave’s Love Song Lecture

Nick Cave’s Love Song Lecture “Though the love song comes in many guises – songs of exultation and praise, songs of rage and of despair, erotic songs, songs of abandonment and loss – they all address God, for it is the haunted premises of longing that the true love song inhabits.”

YouTube: About Time: Marlon Carey at TEDxBoston

About Time: Marlon Carey at TEDxBoston TEDxTalks

Blog: Via Meadia: GOP Scared Stiff by Copyright Paper

GOP Scared Stiff by Copyright Paper Walter Russell Mead, Via Meadia

Blog: askblog: Targeted Killing

Targeted Killing Arnold Kling, askblog

D-Day: NBC 2:50–3AM — Ford’s Sensorium — Medium

D-Day: NBC 2:50–3AM — Ford’s Sensorium — Medium

What Neuroscience Really Teaches Us, and What It Doesn’t

What Neuroscience Really Teaches Us, and What It Doesn’t “There will eventually be neuroscientific explanations for much of what we do; but those explanations will turn out to be incredibly complicated. For now, our ability to understand how all those parts relate is quite limited, sort of like trying to understand the political dynamics of […]

Maj-Gen Tony Deane-Drummond

Maj-Gen Tony Deane-Drummond Quite an obituary.

Entire rules of the MLB Rule 5 Draft

Entire rules of the MLB Rule 5 Draft

Seth’s Blog: Confusing lucky with good

Seth’s Blog: Confusing lucky with good “So persistence becomes an essential element of good, because without persistence, you never get a chance to get lucky.”

Everything you wanted to know about stock option grants but were afraid to ask « Random Peterisms

Everything you wanted to know about stock option grants but were afraid to ask « Random Peterisms

Blog: askblog: It is Sometimes Appropriate…

It is Sometimes Appropriate… Arnold Kling, askblog

Iceland’s Only Baseball Club Looks For A Rally

Iceland’s Only Baseball Club Looks For A Rally “Icelandic weather is no good for baseball”

Ibrahimovic Is The Biggest Boy In The Paris Hood

Ibrahimovic Is The Biggest Boy In The Paris Hood “For Ibrahimović, the mesmerizing footwork and cheeky goals have become the flags of Rosengård he plants in each enemy pitch. Someone somewhere must have written a Ph.D. thesis on the Zlatan phenomenon as symptomatic of rapidly transforming Swedish society.”

YouTube: Science Of Persuasion

Science Of Persuasion influenceatwork

Blog: The American Conservative » Rod Dreher: Individualism Uber Alles

Individualism Uber Alles Rod Dreher, The American Conservative » Rod Dreher

Explorations in Unix

Explorations in Unix Data cleansing functions in Unix.