January 2011
36 posts
The Times's Dealings With Julian Assange -... →
“Security researchers developed a working spyware app for Android that’s...”
– Impressive. Flexibility vs Security: Whoops, There Goes Your Credit Card Info (Global Moxie)
Guerrilla Marketing 2010 →
Vintage Phone Ringtones →
Rands In Repose: A Glimpse and a Hook →
“We need to get behind this [clean energy] innovation…and to help pay for it, I’m...”
– President Obama, State of the Union, 2011 (via leftish)
“Starting this year, no American will be forbidden from serving the country they...”
– President Obama, SOTU. (via thedailywhat)
Watchjacob:
New Road Runner cartoon!
“Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy...”
– Robert A. Heinlein
Full quote:
Remind me to write a popular article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers. The title is...
The moment between Now and Then: Our Noble,... →
Our Noble, Essential Decency
Robert Heinlein - Colorado Springs, Colorado
As heard on The Bob Edwards Show, March 12, 2010
In spite of his successful career as a science fiction writer, Robert Heinlein’s beliefs are more down to earth. He believes in the decency of his…
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to...”
– Robert A. Heinlein (from Stranger in a Strange Land)
W3Fools, a W3Schools intervention →
guillee:
We are passionate about the web, learning, and craftsmanship. We want you, as web designers and developers, to be successful in your careers. We feel, though, that W3Schools is harming the community with inaccurate information. Like any other authoritative educational resource, W3Schools should both hold itself to, and be held to, the highest standards.
We hope we can illuminate...
"Nigger" →
On replacing the word “nigger” with “slave” in a new edition of Huckleberry Finn:
Seolbrother:
To edit the word from our literature we actually decriminalize the climate and context in which it was used. We allow the romantic notion of The Good Ol’ Days to go unchecked. If we let that happen slavery gets reduced to young Anakin Skywalker pouting because he can’t get time off to compete in the...
“Charles Darwin is the father of the Holocaust.”
– Glenn Beck, 20 August 2010.
(via reallyfoxnews)
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME??
“The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on...”
– Article 11, Treaty of Tripoli, unanimously approved by the US Senate and signed by President John Adams on June 7,1797.
Toddler Without Bedtime, Goes To Sleep Whenever →
The Four Phases of Design Thinking - Warren Berger... →
Time Machine - The Complete FAQ →
Frequently Asked Questions (Unofficial )
This will get a gold lion this year. →
executivecontour:
This handily kills the overused/overhyped/pretty-much-only-good-for-an-Effie-anyway case study video.
Let’s hope.
The Year of Practical Thinking: GILES TURNBULL... →
America Under Communism - famous propaganda comic... →
USSR
Mission Critical: Manage yourself →
bobulate:
Seth Godin on being your own boss:
If you had a manager that talked to you the way you talked to you, you’d quit. If you had a boss that wasted as much as your time as you do, they’d fire her. If an organization developed its employees as poorly as you are developing yourself, it would soon go under.
And:We are surprised when someone self-directed arrives on the scene. Someone who...
“You are what you fear.”
– Another day, another pithy aphorism.
:Magnificent Ruin (via nevver) 