Monthly Archives: November 2014

Vimeo: Wanderers – a short film by Erik Wernquist

Wanderers – a short film by Erik Wernquist Erik Wernquist

Quote from Tumblr

You don’t win fights by thinking of big ideas but by thinking of tricks that work in one particular case. Paul Graham kenarneson.tumblr.com

Tweet by pizzacutter4

Wait… what? Did I just have too much leftover turkey? — Russell A. Carleton (@pizzacutter4) November 29, 2014 via https://twitter.com/pizzacutter4

Transcript of J Smooth’s speech on Ferguson, riots and human limits

Transcript of J Smooth’s speech on Ferguson, riots and human limits

Tweet by dianagram

ICYMI, now at the VORG, my #Thanksgiving message of gratitude to the baseball blogosphere http://t.co/v1OSt5rVKN #mlb — Diane Firstman (@dianagram) November 27, 2014 via https://twitter.com/dianagram

Tweet by dianagram

preserving for Scrabble posterity here pic.twitter.com/IVWjCug4II — Diane Firstman (@dianagram) November 26, 2014 via https://twitter.com/dianagram

Barack Obama, Ferguson, and the Evidence of Things Unsaid

Barack Obama, Ferguson, and the Evidence of Things Unsaid from: November 26, 2014 at 03:42PM

Solving the Mystery of Link Imbalance: A Metastable Failure State at Scale

Solving the Mystery of Link Imbalance: A Metastable Failure State at Scale Facebook engineers track down a tricky bug.

Why women leave tech: what the research says

Why women leave tech: what the research says

Tweet by ftrain

Vice asked last week if I could write some flash sci-fi about Uber. This was incredibly fun to do: http://t.co/wZoibuQg52 — Paul Ford (@ftrain) November 24, 2014 via https://twitter.com/ftrain

Quote from Tumblr

What this means is that the closer consecutive pitches are to one another at the swing decision point, the less distance apart they need to arrive at home plate to generate higher than normal swing and miss rates. Jon Roegele kenarneson.tumblr.com

YouTube: Crazy pool vortex

Crazy pool vortex Physics Girl

Why People Take Risks To Help Others: Altruism’s Roots In The Brain

Why People Take Risks To Help Others: Altruism’s Roots In The Brain from: November 23, 2014 at 11:06AM

Claims about cetaceans (speculative)

Claims about cetaceans (speculative) from: November 23, 2014 at 11:04AM

Constructed Criteria: Redefining Merit to Justify Discrimination (pdf)

Constructed Criteria: Redefining Merit to Justify Discrimination (pdf) “Indeed, in Experiment 1, participants who exhibited the most pro-male bias in their hiring criteria also proved the most confident in the objectivity of their decision. They, perhaps, felt that they had chosen the right man for the job, when in fact they had chosen the right […]

Why Your Brain Wants To Help One Child In Need — But Not Millions

Why Your Brain Wants To Help One Child In Need — But Not Millions from: November 22, 2014 at 12:45PM

The stories of the Bible in TL;DR form : Christianity

The stories of the Bible in TL;DR form : Christianity Guys

YouTube: Unconscious Bias @ Work | Google Ventures

Unconscious Bias @ Work | Google Ventures Google Ventures

7 Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI

7 Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI “Light comes from the sky. Black and white first. Double your whitespace. Learn the methods of overlaying text on images. Make text pop— and un-pop. Only use good fonts. Steal like an artist.”

Tweet by craigmod

My talk on margins from today at #gigaomlive is up: https://t.co/dTa4VBdhue pic.twitter.com/y712M6M0Fr — Craig Mod (@craigmod) November 19, 2014 via http://twitter.com/craigmod