December 2011
69 posts
Wabi-sabi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
Test and Fix Your Posture with This Head-to-Toe... →
Dropbox Squares Off With Apple's iCloud |... →
Protecting Yourself Financially: Types of... →
Not Quite an MIT Degree, but MITx May Still Appeal... →
And the momentum builds.
let it snow - Google Search →
What jobs are users hiring your product to... →
Great question.
A geek with a hat » Why programmers work at night →
Driverless cars will redefine public... →
Currently, a car spends 96% of its time idle. Compare that with planes which spend almost their entire lifetime in operation/airborne. Idle planes aren’t making money, and they need to recoup their hefty $120M price tag. There is an unforgiving economic incentive to make sure it is always in use. The proliferation of driverless cars will have a similar effect. Cars will spend less time idle:...
Learn the Limits of Your Electrical Outlets to... →
“In romantic thought, repetition is the enemy of freedom, the greatest form of...”
– Edward Mendelson, Early Auden, page 172. I have been thinking of this immensely provocative passage while reading Siobhan Phillips’s fascinating new book The Poetics of the Everyday: Creative Repetition in Modern American Verse. (via ayjay)
The old-fashioned: a complete history and guide to... →
What a fantastic drink.
Seth's Blog: No one ever bought anything in an... →
The purpose of an elevator pitch isn’t to close the sale. The goal isn’t even to give a short, accurate, Wikipedia-standard description of you or your project. And the idea of using vacuous, vague words to craft a bland mission statement is dumb. No, the purpose of an elevator pitch is to describe a situation or solution so compelling that the person you’re with wants to hear...
31 Steps to a Financial Tuneup - Interactive... →
Apple Fiscal Q1 2012: The Biggest Earnings Blowout... →
Thinking about buying some Apple stock.
Steve Jobs: Billion Dollar Hippy →
Why ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ Almost Never Aired... →
Mark Jarman, "Psalm: First Forgive the Silence"
ayjay:
First forgive the silence That answers prayer, Then forgive the prayer That stains the silence.
Excuse the absence That feels like presence, Then excuse the feeling That insists on presence.
Pardon the delay Of revelation, Then ask pardon for revealing Your impatience.
Forgive God For being only a word, Then ask God to forgive The betrayal of language.
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Credits, Credentials, and Collective Consciousness... →
The future, mostly.
iOS: A visual history | The Verge →
Great piece.
5 myths about teachers that are distracting... →
How to Properly use Apple’s Guidance to Accurately... →
Amazingly detailed analysis.
FAA said to have cleared iPad for whole flights |... →
I’m sure the pilots will have to shut their iPads off for takeoff and landing, too—you know, because, safety, right?
Shunning Facebook, and Living to Tell About It -... →
Rare Steve Jobs speech from 1980 →
Google Extends Free Google Talk Calls Within the... →
Love this feature—great news!
English Pronunciation « Spelling – Teaching... →
Marriage Planning →
On The Verge, Episode 002: John Gruber | The Verge →
Watch(via Rare Steve Jobs speech from 1980)
“At a time when there were no driver’s licenses, speed limits or clear lane...”
– The Stop Sign Wasn’t Always Red - NYTimes.com. The second most important person named Eno, perhaps. (Also, NYT, watch out for that ambiguous “who” in the third sentence.)
Polyphasic Sleep Cycles Trick Your Body into... →
Can’t say I haven’t thought about it.
Add These Beautiful Settings Shortcuts to Your... →
Cool trick!
Get Ready for Will Ferrell to Sell You Beer... →
These are awesome. I might actually buy some Old Milwaukee out of respect.
“It’s very simple: If you kill a cat, you eat a cat.”
– McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: List: Quotes From My TED Talk.
Shigeru Miyamoto to step down at Nintendo →
What a great man. Hope I get to play whatever he dreams up next.
Voyager 1 Exits Our Solar System - Slashdot →
How very very crazy.
“Towards the end of the interview, Lasseter briefly describes Pixar’s upcoming...”
– More Details On Pete Docter Movie That ‘Takes You Inside The Mind’
Excited excited excited.
MLA projects modest gains in job openings | Inside... →
“So, are you going to get your Ph.D.?”