I Entered the RedZone “I think the RedZone Channel is undeniably a revolutionary way to experience football, and television, and I’m furious that it has taken this long to make its way to my television. But it is not, at its core, football. It is whippets, a hashtag instead of a long read. I love […]
williamfleitch Got to watch the Red Zone Channel for the first time ever this weekend. I wrote about its power for @SportsonEarth. http://t.co/a8P95Q3S
Recapping the “The Jetsons”: Episode 01 – Rosey the Robot Matt Novak, Paleofuture
Baseball Therapy: Reading Lolita in Teheran, Part 3: Smoking, Hitting, and the Search for an 80 Brain by Russell A. Carleton (author unknown), Baseball Prospectus
12 talks on understanding the brain Kate Torgovnick, TED Blog
A Big Mac has 550 calories. McDonald’s customers say: So what? Sarah Kliff, Wonkblog
cwyers @DSzymborski EA probably is willing to pay more to have no PC NFL game than any PC-only NFL game maker would be willing to pay to make one.
Twitter / @cwyers “@DSzymborski EA probably is willing to pay more to have no PC NFL game than any PC-only NFL game maker would be willing to pay to make one.”
robneyer Has anyone invented a word for the desperate feeling that after not looking at Twitter for 48 hours, you might have missed something great?
Ask TNC Anything: Why Do Americans Love Violent Sports Like Football? Andrew Sullivan, The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
“Humanity divides into two classes: those who work out the arguments after reaching the conclusion, and those who never work them out at all.” — Aaron Haspel
A whole magazine of this, please “I’d read a whole magazine of this: people truly grappling with the very best representative of some philosophy, some belief, utterly opposite their own. Or even orthogonal to their own. At any weird angle to their own, really.”
A Philosopher Defends Religion ‘The interest of this book, especially for secular readers, is its presentation from the inside of the point of view of a philosophically subtle and scientifically informed theist—an outlook with which many of them will not be familiar.”
GlennF Another thought from #xoxofest: cynicism is an effective barrier against bullshit. When there’s no bullshit, you don’t need cynicism. (1/2)
Ten Conservative Principles by Russell Kirk “In fine, the diversity of ways in which conservative views may find expression is itself proof that conservatism is no fixed ideology. What particular principles conservatives emphasize during any given time will vary with the circumstances and necessities of that era.”
50 Years of the Jetsons: Why The Show Still Matters | Paleofuture “The show lasted just one season (24 episodes) after its debut on Sunday September 23, 1962, but today ‘The Jetsons’ stands as the single most important piece of 20th century futurism.”
The mathematics of democracy: Who should vote? I hate this. It assumes (a) rationality is the best way to make decisions, and (b) some people are better at it than others. I reject both ideas. Our decisions are guided by our emotions, and nobody is “better” at emotions than anyone else.
What are the 5 keys to a good apology? (author unknown), Barking up the wrong tree
Startup = Growth “Our ancestors must rarely have encountered cases of exponential growth, because our intutitions are no guide here. What happens to fast growing startups tends to surprise even the founders.”
Foreign Policy, Boring But Important “I’d like to apologize to American voters. I’m one of the 5 percent. The 5 percent, that is, who vote in presidential elections based on the foreign policy views of the candidates.”