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Giving Thanks for a God Who Is Appreciative
Giving Thanks for a God Who Is Appreciative
“There is no way I can fit the Lord God into a box and say for sure, ‘This is God.’ Having said that, in His infinite Mercy and Compassion for us, our Creator has sought to describe Himself in the scripture so that the inherently imperfect human mind can begin to comprehend what is truly an Awesome God. Thus, the ’99 Names of God’ come to mind.”
YouTube: Stephen Fry on American vs British Comedy
Random Shopper
Random Shopper
A bot that randomly buys things at Amazon: “What it bought, I won’t know until it comes in the mail.”
Blog: The Feature: They Cracked This 250-Year-Old Code, and Found a Secret Society Inside
How to Get Startup Ideas
How to Get Startup Ideas
“…you can either build something a large number of people want a small amount, or something a small number of people want a large amount. Choose the latter.”
Blog: The American Conservative » Rod Dreher: Sources Of Conservative Renewal
Keeping America’s Edge
Keeping America’s Edge
I somehow missed this great 2010 essay about America’s current dilemmas: “First is the inherent conflict between the creative destruction involved in free-market capitalism and the innate human propensity to avoid risk and change. Second is ever-increasing international competition. And third is the growing disparity in behavioral norms and social conditions between the upper and lower income strata of American society.”
Blog: Science: Big News From Mars? Rover Scientists Mum For Now
The Up-Goer Five Text Editor
The Up-Goer Five Text Editor
Write using only the 1,000 most-used words.
Blog: Ezra Klein: Surprise! Americans actually agree on immigration
Learning to Love Volatility: Taleb on the Antifragile
Learning to Love Volatility: Taleb on the Antifragile
“By contrast, every bank failure weakens the financial system, which in its current form is irremediably fragile: Errors end up becoming large and threatening.”
Blog: Svbtle Featured: Great products are like ducks
Carl Sagan quote
Carl Sagan quote
“Their motives are in may cases consonant with science.”
Blog: Via Meadia: Republicans Retreat On Copyright Reform?
The Most Amazing Race: Reverse-Engineering the Brain | Think Tank | Big Think
YouTube: Africa For Norway – New charity single out now! Official christmas video
Luck and Skill Untangled: Q&A with Michael Mauboussin | Wired Science | Wired.com
Luck and Skill Untangled: Q&A with Michael Mauboussin | Wired Science | Wired.com
“In luck-skill language, if luck is dominant you should place most weight on the base rate, and if skill is dominant then you should place most weight on the individual case.”