May 2009
26 posts
May 29th
The Patents of Steve Jobs →
There are many—and they include a staircase.
May 28th
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BLDGBLOG: Saddam's Palaces: An Interview with... →
amorousmusings: UNBELIEVABLY interesting photographs and interview with BLDGBLOG and Richard Mosse - who took a post-grad grant and captured pictures of the state of many of Saddam’s 81 places throughout Iraq (many transformed into dorms for troops on the front line).
May 28th
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“Do you want to build ideas first and foremost? Then you must not build a big...”
– Peter Drucker as related by Jim Collins
May 28th
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You describe children as being “useless on purpose.” What do you mean by that? The evolutionary answer seems to be that there is a tradeoff between the ability to learn and imagine — which is our great evolutionary advantage as a species — and our ability to apply what we’ve learned and put it to use. So one of the ideas in the book is that children are like the R&D department of the human...
May 28th
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WatchWatch
Erin McKean—lexicographer and former Editor-in-Chief of the New Oxford American Dictionary—on editing the words in the dictionary and being a prescriptor of language at Gel Conference 2006.
May 27th
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“Opportunity creates opportunity in ways difficult to predict. Strive to say yes...”
– Joe Kraus Opportunity is nonlinear, most things are.
May 27th
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“Professor William A. Read, a distinguished linguist, put it this way in a...”
– here (via ayjay)
May 23rd
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“But the most striking aspect of these antiquated documents is found in the tiny...”
– Are trains slower now than they were in the 1920s?, Tom Vanderbilt
May 22nd
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ListenFlorence and The Machine - Postcards From Italy...
May 22nd
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The Master of Money →
Michael Lewis on Warren Buffet
May 20th
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“The Belgian bodybuilding championship has been canceled after doping officials...”
– From the AP, via talking points memo
May 18th
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May 18th
May 14th
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May 13th
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“My theme is the intellectual decline of conservatism, and it is notable that the...”
– Richard Posner   via ayjay
May 13th
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ListenThe Welcome Wagons - Half A Person originally by...
May 12th
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ListenThe Kooks - Beast of Burden/Sweet Jane (Velvet...
May 11th
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May 11th
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“Anyhow, when you are doing something in a recurring way to diminish risk or...”
– Milton Glaser, Ten Things I Have Learned
May 11th
May 8th
“The rule of thirds and ratios such as the golden section are fantastic methods...”
– Jason Santa Maria, What’s Golden
May 5th
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May 2nd
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May 2nd
ListenJackson 5 - Who’s Lovin’ You
May 1st
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“The iPhone is the new Tamagotchi.”
May 1st
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