Grazing life.

PU12 (via peterbaker) — wish I were there!

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:06:04 -0500

PU12 (via peterbaker) — wish I were there!

"While everyone knows Santa maintains the most invasive, robust, 7x24x365 data surveillance operation..."

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:03:14 -0500

“While everyone knows Santa maintains the most invasive, robust, 7x24x365 data surveillance operation in existence against mankind as a whole […] Santa’s data governance and overall IT security must be extraordinary as there continue to be zero reports of a breach. (If there were a breach the operation would have had to make a public disclosure — as mandated by law — duh!)”

- Jeff Jonas: Santa’s Surveillance Operations Center Enjoys Big Gains in 2008(*)

"I’m thinking, for example, of a report I heard on the radio of some attack or other, involving..."

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:17:50 -0500

“I’m thinking, for example, of a report I heard on the radio of some attack or other, involving “three Muslims of middle-eastern descent.” […] When was the last time you heard a crime described as having been committed by “three Christians”? How about “A Jew broke into a convenience store…”? So what’s up with “three Muslims”?”

- On the menu this season: Muslims and gays

"MIT is the sort of unpleasant experience that should be reserved for those who genuinely want it."

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 07:35:55 -0500

“MIT is the sort of unpleasant experience that should be reserved for those who genuinely want it.”

- Ah, Slashdot: Fun Things To Do With a Math Or Science Degree?

Election Day morning in Cambridge via Emil Sit)

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:22:41 -0500

Election Day morning in Cambridge via Emil Sit)

blue list photographers // international Wedding Photography // 1 . 847 . 997 . 5306

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 10:30:44 -0400

blue list photographers // international Wedding Photography // 1 . 847 . 997 . 5306: Fabulous pictures.

Steve Schofield and The Land of the Free - Shoot The Blog

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 10:54:57 -0400

Steve Schofield and The Land of the Free - Shoot The Blog

Anti-Terrorism Exercises in China - The Big Picture - Boston.com

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 09:50:07 -0400

Anti-Terrorism Exercises in China - The Big Picture - Boston.com

"[T]he statement “All models are wrong, but some are useful” is itself a model"

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 09:41:39 -0400

“[T]he statement “All models are wrong, but some are useful” is itself a model”

- Marginal Revolution: Sentences to ponder

Marginal Revolution: Should donors give to students rather than schools?

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:54:51 -0400

Marginal Revolution: Should donors give to students rather than schools?

"Online identity management, then, is something like glamour curation. It is a skill at which..."

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:45:44 -0400

“Online identity management, then, is something like glamour curation. It is a skill at which millions of teenagers (and adults) are quickly becoming expert. Ironically, though, most of the photos that make it through the curation process are snapshots taken with harsh flash in nighttime social settings. The indexical quality of the photographs—where you were, with whom, wearing what—is more important than their composition.”

- Diana Kimball: Algorithms and Avatars, or: What I’ve Learned So Far

"These people have lost their way. They no longer own their stuff—their stuff owns them. I am..."

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:11:24 -0400

“These people have lost their way. They no longer own their stuff—their stuff owns them. I am convinced that this is more the norm than the exception in this country. At some point, we started to believe that the more we own, the better off we are. In times past an in other cultures, people believe that one of the worst things that can happen is for someone to be possessed., to have a demon exercise power over you. Isn’t that what being inundated with possession is— being possessed?”

- Cool Tool: It’s All Too Much (Excerpts and review.)

"As you lower yourself to the thermostatically warmed seat, a concealed motor whirs briefly,..."

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 12:02:25 -0400

“As you lower yourself to the thermostatically warmed seat, a concealed motor whirs briefly, providing your first clue that you are about to encounter a piece of highly sophisticated technology. The toilet then remains silent and passive until you reach the point where you would normally apply paper. Instead, you hit the spray button. A hidden tube extends itself beneath you, and with the precision of a heat-seeking missile, it directs a spray of warm water […]”

- Cool Tool: Toto Washlet Toilet

"My education taught me to believe that people who didn’t go to an Ivy League or equivalent school..."

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:33:53 -0400

“My education taught me to believe that people who didn’t go to an Ivy League or equivalent school weren’t worth talking to, regardless of their class. I was given the unmistakable message that such people were beneath me. We were “the best and the brightest,” as these places love to say, and everyone else was, well, something else: less good, less bright.”

- The American Scholar - The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - By William Deresiewicz

"There’s talk today about how as a society we’ve become fragmented by ethnicity, income, city versus..."

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:00:39 -0400

“There’s talk today about how as a society we’ve become fragmented by ethnicity, income, city versus suburb, red state versus blue. But we also divide ourselves with invisible dotted lines. I’m talking about the property lines that isolate us from the people we are physically closest to: our neighbors.”

- Op-Ed Contributor - Won’t You Be My Neighbor? - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com

How to nap - Boston.com

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:20:15 -0400

How to nap - Boston.com

Timothy Ferriss - How to Peel Hard-boiled Eggs w/o Peeling (via...

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:36:45 -0400

Timothy Ferriss - How to Peel Hard-boiled Eggs w/o Peeling (via masterlock77)

"The oil industry’s techniques would say that those fields together have proven reserves of..."

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:28:52 -0400

“The oil industry’s techniques would say that those fields together have proven reserves of 2.72 million times four, or 10.88 megabarrels. But for uncorrelated distributions — and I m going to assume that the distributions here are uncorrelated — the variances add. […] The mean is still 16 megabarrels, but the 10th percentile is now 13.44 megabarrels. The chances of getting as low as 10.88 megabarrels are about one half of one percent; […]
I encourage you to not read the comments in most places where this has been posted, because it s basically people just ranting about global warming and saying either “we’ve reached peak oil, anybody who says we haven’t is a poopyhead” or “we haven t reached peak oil, anybody who says we have is a poopyhead”.”

- God Plays Dice: When it comes to oil, addition is hard

"Living closer in, in a smaller space, where you don’t have that commute,” he said. “It’s definitely..."

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:28:43 -0400

““Living closer in, in a smaller space, where you don’t have that commute,” he said. “It’s definitely something we talk about. Before it was ‘we spend too much time driving.’ Now, it’s ‘we spend too much time and money driving.’ ””

- Rethinking the Country Life as Energy Costs Rise - NYTimes.com

The Sky, From Above - The Big Picture - Boston.com

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:24:36 -0400

The Sky, From Above - The Big Picture - Boston.com