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"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:45:13 +0000

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”

- Carl Sagan (via emilyposts) (via pop17) (via spytap)

Search Recipes by Available Ingredients

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:50:48 +0000

CookingByNumbers.com

AllRecipes.com : Ingredient Search

ilovecharts: brownpau: everytime you make a powerpoint edward...

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:51:18 +0000

ilovecharts:

brownpau:

everytime you make a powerpoint
edward tufte kills a kitten
(dataviz via heeeraldo)

Knowing .NET » Blog Archive » Project Manager’s vs....

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:51:14 +0000

Knowing .NET » Blog Archive » Project Manager’s vs. Developer’s View

"Silence, magnanimous civility, and getting their name slightly wrong is best. (On responding to..."

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:43:51 +0000

“

Silence, magnanimous civility, and getting their name slightly wrong is best.

(On responding to critics)

”

- Alain de Botton: You’ll regret those words until your dying day - Telegraph

How to Obscure Any URL

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:19:30 +0000

How to Obscure Any URL:

Fairly good introductory post on URI obfuscation

North Korea

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:13:30 +0000

North Korea

Dilbert comic strip for 02/28/2010

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:37:09 +0000

Dilbert comic strip for 02/28/2010

slavin: >North Tyneside high street ‘revived’ by fake shop...

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:23:41 +0000

slavin:

>North Tyneside high street ‘revived’ by fake shop front

“Fake businesses are to be used to lessen the impact of the recession on high streets in North Tyneside.

With 140 empty shops in the borough, council bosses think they have come up with a unique way of ensuring shopping areas remain as vibrant as possible.

The first empty shop unit to be given a makeover with a “flat pack” shop front is in Whitley Bay. (via BBC News - North Tyneside high street ‘revived’ by fake shop front)

Time to Wait - Instructables

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:08:08 +0000

Time to Wait - Instructables

http://i.imgur.com/C5hAo.gif

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:36:31 +0000

http://i.imgur.com/C5hAo.gif:

Global warming: temporal patterns of public opinion

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:36:31 +0000

Global warming: temporal patterns of public opinion:

From GraphJam

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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:36:55 +0000

734423:

Today my mom told me about a conversations she had with my aunt and she told me how my cousin and his friends have been getting in trouble at school for saying “Thats What She Said” So now to aviod…

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/files/2009/05/phd051809s.gif

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:36:55 +0000

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/files/2009/05/phd051809s.gif:

datavis: The Best Jobs In America

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:20:30 +0000

datavis:

The Best Jobs In America

Snake oil? Scientific evidence for health supplements |...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:18:41 +0000

Snake oil? Scientific evidence for health supplements | Information Is Beautiful

The Reasons for Writing Software

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:11:35 +0000

Are, in rough order of nobleness:

Because no one else has made anything like this before and I’m sure it’ll be awesome.
Because no one has ever combined these feature sets and the combination will be legen — dramatic pause — dary.
Because this platform needs this type of software.
Because my version will be way better than all the others.
Because building it will teach me something.
Because I can do it too.

The Reasons for Writing Software — Ikiru Design

"Most educated people are aware that we are the outcome of nearly 4 billion years of Darwinian..."

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:35:01 +0000

“Most educated people are aware that we are the outcome of nearly 4 billion years of Darwinian selection, but many tend to think that humans are somehow the culmination. Our sun, however, is less than halfway through its lifespan. It will not be humans who watch the sun’s demise, 6 billion years from now. Any creatures that then exist will be as different from us as we are from bacteria or amoebae.”

- Sir Martin Rees, professor of cosmology and astrophysics at Cambridge University, Astronomer Royal.

Why Intelligent People Fail

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:14:29 +0000

Why Intelligent People Fail:

Why Intelligent People Fail

Everything about this article feels obvious, but I’ve never seen it articulated so well:

Being intelligent is like having a knife. If you train every day in using…

New Must-Read Publication!

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:17:24 +0000

New Must-Read Publication!:

I just thought Shakers should know about it. Reading is essential, after all.

h/t my friend James — also Here.