Just saw a Tesla racing a motorcycle on the street. The Tesla won.
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Feb8
Feb6
Finally going to see Avatar today
The relentless search for "tell me what to do"→
If you’ve ever hired or managed or taught, you know the feeling.
People are just begging to be told what to do. There are a lot of reasons for this, but I think the biggest one is: “If you tell me…
Feb5
Seriously local news is the stupidest thing on TV. Makes Jersey Shore look like learned discourse.
The Truth About Agave Nectar: It’s All Hype→
If you simply must have some sweets once in a while, a small amount of agave nectar every once in a while isn’t going to kill you. Just don’t buy…
ConversationalStories→
Here’s a common misconception about agile methods. It centers on the way user stories are created and flow through the development activity. The misconception is that the product owner (or business…
Feb3
I think I’ve just figured out why it annoys me when people trivialise the conversations that take place on Twitter and Tumblr as merely ‘talking about what you had for breakfast’. Mostly I find these are the same people who quite happily sit around for hours and hours engaged in the most inane, insufferable real-life small talk. Where they ate dinner last night, what their hotel in Noosa was like, how their favourite sport team is going.
In contrast, the conversations I encounter online tend to be more interesting than most of the conversations I have in real life. At their best these conversations are far from small talk. They explore issues that don’t belong in mainstream discourse, in far more depth than real-world social interactions normally allow. They show an intellectual curiosity that defies the shallow expectations of our culture.
Trivialising these online conversations as merely being about early-morning epicurean tendencies reflects a naivety and disconnectedness that I’d suggest says more about the speaker than his subject.
Feb2
"By the end of ten years, I’d said pretty much everything I had come there to say. It’s always better..."→
“By the end of ten years, I’d said pretty much everything I had come there to say. It’s always better to leave the party early. If I had rolled along with the strip’s popularity and repeated myself…
Who will save book publishing?
What will save the newspapers?
What means ‘save’?
If by save you mean, “what will keep things just as they are?” then the answer is nothing will. It’s over.
Feb1
"This is not a reason to prefer Macmillan over Amazon. Amazon might arguably have something that is..."→
This is not a reason to prefer Macmillan over Amazon. Amazon might arguably have something that is almost a monopoly on online bookselling, allowing them to de facto dictate the price of books…
Corporations Cannot Have Natural Rights… Duh→
When I first read through the Citizens United decision that essentially made it illegal to “discriminate” against corporate political speech, I found myself very torn. On the one hand, I’m an…
Jan30
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Jan29
Freedom Warden jacket, I’m a Photographer, Not a Terrorist, Trafalgar Square, London, UK.JPG (via gruntzooki)