February 2012
4 posts
“Say howdy to George Carter, and thank him for taking the pistol from you when...”
– Letter from emancipated slave Jourdan Anderson to his former master (via Letters of Note)
January 2012
6 posts
Watch
“You should view the world as a conspiracy run by a very closely-knit group of...”
– Robert Anton Wilson (via trustyacht)
A word of advice for Code Year participants →
Unplug
from mattwaite
December 2011
9 posts
Solitude and leadership →
(via Kottke)
“We can’t Facebook our way out of the current economic status quo.”
– Neal Stephenson, in The New York Times
“Buy the cheapest tool that fits the job. If you use it so much that it breaks,...”
– @brianboyer’s friend’s dad
LocalWiki →
Anyone interested in building something with this? I’ll install it and set it up!
“People in Koblenz are used to bomb findings.”
– Fire brigade spokesman Ronald Eppelsheim, after half his town is evacuated.
November 2011
10 posts
“Sometimes the best thing that can happen to you is not getting what you want.”
– Dave Trott, “Fail Upwards”
“By lengthening the time horizon, you can engage in endeavors that you could...”
– Jeff Bezos in Wired Magazine
Watchkmikeym:
Thanksgiving Pop Tart (by Mike Merrill)
“Are we really going to accept an Interface Of The Future that is less expressive...”
– Bret Victor, “A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design”
Government is not a startup →
October 2011
8 posts
Notes from A Web Afternoon
The following are my notes from A Web Afternoon, typed hastily while listening and edited lightly just before posting.
Leslie Jensen-Inman
State your destination or one will be chosen for you by others.
Map 4 Awesomeness
Passion > Purpose > Promise > Pursuit
Passion
Embrace it.
What makes you happiest?
What excites you most?
What do you want to spend your energy on?
What do...
“There is no such thing as “long run” in industries driven by the next quarterly...”
– Neal Stephenson, Innovation Starvation
September 2011
10 posts
Searching for a backpack
[UPDATED, see below ]
I’m looking for a backpack to replace my shoulder bag. I like my shoulder bag fine, except that I carry too much stuff around and it’s starting hurt my shoulder and back.
So far, the following backpacks look promising:
L.L.Bean Waxed Continental Rucksack
Pros: I like that doesn’t look like a 7th grader’s bag.
Cons: The straps look too thick for...
“Creating something personal, even of moderate quality, has a different kind of...”
– Clay Shirky, Cognitive Surplus (via Russel Davies)
Mike's Sandwich Dilemma
ZombieApocalypse: I taught Plato by way of Mike's Sandwich Dilemma, it was great.
bookhouseboyP: What is this sandwich dilemma you speak of?
KmikeyM: The Mike's Sandwich Dilemma is an exercise in failed taxonomy. Essentially it proves that science can not contain the miracle of the world we live in and therefore some sort of creator must exist. The MSD is the only logical proof of God in the history of man.
ZombieApocalypse: That, for the record, is not what I said in class.
KmikeyM: Oh. Well, I guess you taught it wrong.
Bottle of 62-year-old Scotch sells for $200k →
Tonx →
Fresh roasted coffee, delivered to your door.
Tempted to subscribe and try it out.
“I really think that everyone on the Internet has gone soft. We used to drive...”
– ModernGeek, on Slashdot
4 tags
August 2011
8 posts
3 tags
“Knowledge is not a lean-back process; it’s a lean-forward activity. Just because...”
– Maria Popova, “Accessibility vs. access: How the rhetoric of ‘rare’ is changing in the age of information abundance”
