February 2012
15 posts
“Using a bar set by the mass media, they felt they’d failed to achieve their full...”
– How To Be Happy Anywhere | Fast Company
Kickstarter Expects to Provide More Funding Than... →
BBC News - The myth of the eight-hour sleep →
Fascinating. Evidence from science and history suggesting sleeping in one 8-hour chunk is a recent development.
“Most of us want to finish the race, but see running as a chore.”
– Forget Self-Improvement - Deliberatism
“Spend a couple hours—or heck, 20 minutes—with an iPad, and you’ll see pretty...”
– The iPad at work, Day 3: making adjustments | Macworld
Proposed New Calendar Would Make Time Rational |... →
The upshot: Years would proceed with clockwork regularity, with no annual re-jiggering of schedules required. Each day would occupy the same position as it had the previous year and would in the next. Were this 364-day calendar, known officially as the Hanke-Henry Permanent Calendar, adopted on the first day of 2012, both Christmas and New Year’s Day would forever fall on Sunday.
Shippensburg University Sells Emergency... →
Watch(via A Superbowl ad seen only in Canada - Roger Ebert’s Journal)
Cool New Coffee & Tea Infographic! | The... →
“Unemployment fell to 8.3 percent, the lowest in three years.”
– Jobless rate drops to lowest in three years - Chicago Sun-Times
Sugar Should Be Regulated As Toxin, Researchers... →
Dear Boss: For a programmer, 10 minutes = 3 hours... →
“Since the lake has remained sealed off from the rest of the world, scientists...”
– BBC News - Lake Vostok drilling in Antarctic ‘running out of time’
“It is the most peculiar thing I have ever seen – there must be about 20 complete...”
– Blue marble mystery rains over Dorset garden | UK news | The Guardian
January 2012
10 posts
WatchKahn Academy explains SOPA and PIPA.
(via SOPA and PIPA | American Civics | Khan Academy)
25 Things I Learned From Opening a Bookstore -... →
Cars Kill Cities « Progressive Transit →
If you are going by yourself to pickup your dry cleaning, then cars are insanely over-engineered for the task.
Why We've Censored Wired.com | Threat Level |... →
Hollywood’s right to make bad business decisions stops at the point where it threatens our freedom of speech.
Best summary of why to fight SOPA/PIPA I’ve read.
“Travelers carrying a “normal” cupcake will probably clear airport...”
– TSA defends cupcake confiscation - CNN.com
Two Moments of Zen | From zenhabits.net
Quashing the Self-Improvement Urge - http://zenhabits.net/improve/
Sitting and Watching - http://zenhabits.net/sit/
Incidentally, best URLs on the net.
December 2011
4 posts
Does Airport Security Really Make Us Safer? |... →
Since 9/11, the U.S. has spent more than $1.1 trillion on homeland security.
To a large number of security analysts, this expenditure makes no sense. The vast cost is not worth the infinitesimal benefit. Not only has the actual threat from terror been exaggerated, they say, but the great bulk of the post-9/11 measures to contain it are little more than what Schneier mocks as “security...
Drone Watches Last U.S. Convoy Leave Iraq | Wired →
Fly the Airplane - Dustin Curtis →
The human body’s physical “fight or flight” response evolved to help it evade a dangerous situation, which historically involved extreme physical exertion. The rush of steroids into the bloodstream essentially turns off unnecessary systems, including some higher thinking processes, to aid in escape. Unfortunately, as we’ve evolved into more intelligent beings, that response hasn’t evolved along...
November 2011
5 posts
“Some experts agree. “The target, the motive, the ideology and the plot...”
– Fake terror plots, paid informants: the tactics of FBI ‘entrapment’ questioned | World news | guardian.co.uk
Airport full-body X-ray scanners banned across... →
In Europe however, it has just been decided that the machines form a risk to passenger’s health and safety, and therefore cannot be used.
Similarities in Movie Posters →
October 2011
16 posts
“He worked really hard. Every day. That’s incredibly simple, but true.”
– A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs - NYTimes.com
“People are finally pushing back against the incredible influence that...”
– » minimalist protest :mnmlist
America’s Exploding Pipe Dream - NYTimes.com →
“By thinking of a product as the solution to one specific use-case, you can be...”
– Think small - Sahil Lavingia
“you have all your life to make art, but a month to make rent –Van Ditthavong”
– If you could go back 10 years, what advice would you give yourself?
Trevor Owens: How to Overcome Your Fatal Flaw →
trevorowens:
One thing I’ve been thinking about recently is fatal flaws. Basically, what’s that one thing that is going to hold you back (perhaps systematically) from achieving your goals. For most people (and for me), this is a deep seated & recurring problem they’ve dealt with for a while. It could be caused…
“‘Men have become tools of their tools.’ ~Henry David Thoreau”
– » You don’t need the new iPhone :mnmlist
“But good lord, get a bunch of people in one place protesting against the...”
– ginandtacos.com » Blog Archive » OFFICER FRIENDLY
“Remind them that prohibiting photography was something we used to ridicule about...”
– Bruce Schneier: Are photographers really a threat? | World news | The Guardian
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