“But now, when we catch you doing that, we mock you and tell you to go flip burgers. And that’s bullshit. We told you your whole lives that those jobs were for idiots and failures. You think you’re too good for those jobs because that’s what we’ve been fucking telling you since birth.”
Category Archives: Delicious
National Basketball Players Association web site
“Error 404: Basketball Not Found Please be patient as we work on resolving this. We are sorry for the inconvenience.”
# 2011.11.15 – 11:33
The Disruptive MBA: On the Triggers of Disruption
Probably need to reread this one to understand it.
# 2011.11.15 – 10:48
Meaning in Life Is Logically Independent of Questions about the Supernatural
Big Think, Will Wilkinson
# 2011.11.15 – 09:18
Leonardo’s Formula Explains Why Trees Don’t Splinter
The graceful taper of a tree trunk into branches, boughs, and twigs is so familiar that few people notice what Leonardo da Vinci observed: A tree almost always grows so that the total thickness of the branches at a particular height is equal to the thickness of the trunk.
# 2011.11.14 – 15:47
Transitions In Design
Transitions are the subtle in-between details that we as human beings actually connect with and the reasons we fall in love with something rather than simply like something.
# 2011.11.14 – 03:17
Michael Lewis and Billy Beane talk Moneyball. – Slate Magazine
‘The book, Lewis agrees, is partly “about the intellectualisation of a previously not intellectual job.’
# 2011.11.13 – 19:48
What If Middle-Class Jobs Disappear? — The American Magazine
Arnold Kling: “These trends serve to limit the availability of well-defined jobs. If a job can be characterized by a precise set of instructions, then that job is a candidate to be automated or outsourced to modestly educated workers in developing countries.”
# 2011.11.13 – 19:48
Dwolla
Dwolla payment system
Online alternative to credit/debit card processing
# 2011.11.13 – 17:17
Jane Leavy on Penn State, Victims, and a Personal Memoir of Abuse – Grantland
# 2011.11.11 – 11:33
“. . . And so it goes.”
Fred Friendly interviewed Joe Paterno about moral reasoning
# 2011.11.10 – 22:32
Allan Jones: A map of the brain | Video on TED.com
Which genes are “turned on” where in the brain
# 2011.11.10 – 12:03