December 2011
1 post
“A cheeseburger cannot exist outside of a highly developed, post-agrarian...”
– Waldo Jaquith - On the impracticality of a cheeseburger.
November 2011
1 post
“…rules that are decades old persist without evidence to support the idea...”
– Fliers Still Must Turn Off Devices, but It’s Not Clear Why - NYTimes.com
October 2011
4 posts
“‘Would you teach them enough biotechnology to pass?’ And she said, ‘How would I...”
– Sugata Mitra quoted on Minimum viable Montessori
“Let’s pay a visit to Whole Foods’ splendid Columbus Circle store in...”
– How Whole Foods “Primes” You To Shop | Fast Company
“if you use Gmail, please use Google’s new “two-step verification” system. In...”
– Hacked! - Magazine - The Atlantic
“Last year a former Apple employee related his favorite Steve Jobs story to me. I...”
– In Praise of Bad Steve - D.B. Grady - Technology - The Atlantic
July 2011
5 posts
“Close to three quarters of U.S. households buy orange juice. Its popularity...”
– Mmmm. Juice. Squeezed - Hamilton, Alissa - Yale University Press
“Competence is highly overrated,” says Pfeffer, the Thomas D. Dee Professor of...”
– Forbes India Magazine - Jeffrey Pfeffer: If Everybody Thinks You Are A Genius, You Are
“[This American Life] goes into clear detail about the idiocies of the patent...”
– The cost of patent trolls (by Felix Salmon) about When Patents Attack on NPR.
“Consumption of good food—whatever “good” happens to be—entitles you to good...”
– The Hand That Feeds You - The Morning News
“Geeks enjoy incredible privilege. With that privilege, the responsibility is...”
– Obliged to Do Meaningful Work /by Gina Trapani
June 2011
1 post
May 2011
1 post
“Perhaps we could endeavor to teach our future the following:
…
The...”
– Seth Godin on Seth’s Blog: What’s high school for?
April 2011
2 posts
“… parenting is a supremely masochistic kind of self-sacrifice - you spend...”
– Thing a Week Redux
December 2010
1 post
“One of the first systems our engineers built in AWS is called the Chaos Monkey....”
– http://techblog.netflix.com/2010/12/5-lessons-weve-learned-using-aws.html
October 2010
2 posts
September 2010
2 posts
The Random Post: Levenger 5-Year Journal →
[the Levenger 5 year journal] is like Twitter for a private and bygone era. There is no pressure to catalog every detail of life or how you are feeling. Want to simply write a single thought or idea? Well, that is OK too. The beauty is that, those who have felt the pressure of maintaining a journal in the past (like myself) will likely feel far less so with such a low barrier to entry. Take...
“Inspired by Sapir’s cultural approach to language, [Everett] hypothesized that...”
– A mix of yoga, buddhism, and linguistics? From A Reporter at Large: The Interpreter : The New Yorker
August 2010
1 post
July 2010
7 posts
“Mr. Chetty and his colleagues — one of whom, Emmanuel Saez, recently won the...”
– Economic Scene - Study Rethinks Importance of Kindergarten Teachers - NYTimes.com
“The magnetic sense of birds was first discovered in robins in 1968, and its...”
– Robins can literally see magnetic fields, but only if their vision is sharp | Discover Magazine
“We have a crisis of leadership in America because our overwhelming power and...”
– Solitude and Leadership: an article by William Deresiewicz | The American Scholar
“Implications of dysfunctional infrastructure are multifold. The important...”
– Younghee Jung » Blog Archive » Standby affordancevia tecznotes.
The benefits of being neighborly
The past few weeks, we’ve had some good interactions with our neighbors, including:
Putting out a fire in materials left by contractors in our neighbor’s yard (a multi-neighbor collaboration)
Participating in a neighbor’s yard sale, getting some mugs and dumping some junk
Being told someone left the lights on in our car
Jump-starting a neighbor’s car
Getting a...
June 2010
4 posts
“The iPhone 4, however, moved the antenna action from the back of the phone to...”
– Apple iPhone 4 Antennas… - AntennaSys Blog - AntennaSys, Inc. - antenna design, integration and consulting.
“The fact that microwaves are now readily available to most of us in the western...”
– Measure the Speed of Light Using Your Microwave. Sweet.
“… we have a culture that is constantly telling us that no risk is...”
– The war on children’s playgrounds - Children - Salon.com
“In 1978, nearly half of 16-year-olds and three-quarters of 17-year-olds in the...”
– Is Digital Revolution Driving Decline in U.S. Car Culture? - Advertising Age - Digital
May 2010
3 posts
“[…] finding people to rearrange the chapters, to criticize the very arc of...”
– Seth’s Blog: Sentences, paragraphs and chapters
OneMillionGiraffes.com - Don't be square! Create... →
“My friend, Jørgen, doesn’t believe I can collect one million giraffes by 2011. I’m gonna prove him wrong, but I need your help. You can create your giraffes in any way you like, but not on a computer and no store bought objects. You must create your giraffes yourself! Click here to read why.
I’ve gotten 807 932 giraffes so far, so I only need 192 068 more and I...
April 2010
17 posts
“My friend and colleague Steve Gribble told me that after doing a sabbatical at...”
– Why I wanted to go into industry. From Volatile and Decentralized: Will DARPA save computer science?
“Technical skills are a hygiene factor for architects. You need to have them to...”
– InfoQ: Learnings from Five Years as a Skype Architect
Recycled Knowledge: Recycled Nursery Rhymes and... →
“As parents, today, we are quite free to raise our children as we please, perhaps...”
– about conscious parenting
“Why do anyone need [an iPad]? Indeed, even those of you are lining up and...”
– The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs : An open letter to the people of the world
“Don’t buy it!” may be an unusual call to arms, but it has the potential to...”
– The Minsumer Movement: A Quiet Revolution « miss minimalist
“If I have to write one more polyglot bash / awk / python script to gather data...”
– What a rant! [FoRK] Programming languages, operating systems, despair and anger
“… it’s exactly that part of media consumption, reading, that reveals...”
– What the iPad is Missing (No, it’s not a Camera) | The FontFeed
The Flexitarian Cookbook: Recipes to Please... →
Vegetarian-mostly, but like some meat? A cookbook with recipes that are flexible enough for whatever mood you’re in.
“Since the birth rate of individualistic secular people the world over is way...”
– Caspar Melville - Battle of the Babies | New Humanist
“Every graduate program in the humanities should include a truthful statement on...”
– We Need to Acknowledge the Realities of Employment in the Humanities - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education Why limit yourself to the humanities?
“Body is the Home provided by the Nature of our situation. Psychological...”
– Yogic Muse: Heart is Home
“So what’s it all about, this Twitter? Is it signaling, like telegraphs? Is it...”
– Margaret Atwood in the Twittersphere - The New York Review of Books