September 2009
0 posts
“If you admire somebody you should go ahead and tell them. People never get the...”
July 2009
1 post
“If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of...”
– Chinese Proverb
June 2009
3 posts
May 2009
33 posts
spaceships:
Do you mean, why am I frugal? You can’t buy health and you can’t buy love. I’m a member of every golf club that I want to be a member of. I’m the highest handicap member of Augusta National. I’d rather play golf here with people I like than at the fanciest golf course in the world. I can do anything that I want, and I do. I buy everything I want to have. I’m not interested in cars...
Commencement Speech by Paul Hawken to the Class of...
When I was invited to give this speech, I was asked if I could give a simple short talk that was “direct, neked, taut, honest, passionate, lean, shivering, startling, and graceful.” Boy, no pressure there. But let’s begin with the startling part. Hey, Class of 2009: you are going to have to figure out what it means to be a human being on earth at a time when every living system...
People who explain complicated concepts in simple... →
List compiled by Phil Gyford from an old MetaFilter thread:
“What single book is the best introduction to your field (or specialization) for laypeople?”
Ask MetaFilter’s best introductory books
Aeronautics
Mechanics of Flight by AC Kermode
Animation
The Illusion of Life
Timing for Animation
Archaeology
Archaeology
Architecture
Ching’s Building...
WatchA new addition to the Songs Around the World series from Mark Johnson and Playing For Change: “War, No More Trouble.”
Anatomy Trains Myofascial Meridians - A Revolution... →
Thomas Myers studied with Drs. Ida Rolf, Moshe Feldenkrais, and Buckminster Fuller, and has practiced integrative bodywork for over 30 years in Europe, the UK, and the USA.
“Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than...”
Michael Bollinger →
Curator, designgeist.org
(photo of Agyness Deyn by Josh Olins for Love Magazine No. 1)
Silver Scorpio →
I really like the branding and layout of this India-focused news site. Nice job, S.S., whoever you are.
An Essay by Einstein: "The World As I See It"
Excerpted from the excerpt at aip.org
“My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized. It is an irony of fate that I myself have been the recipient of excessive admiration and reverence from my fellow-beings, through no fault, and no merit, of my own. The cause of this may well...
The gorgeous, talented, awesomest, amazing, DJ Nova Jade whose podcast I am totally digging!
“If I had asked customers what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”
– Henry Ford
Larta Institute, connecting people to drive... →
“Our mission is to vastly improve the transition of scientific and technological breakthroughs from the laboratory to the marketplace, where they can solve problems, enhance economic opportunities and better people’s lives.”
Kitchen Gardeners International →
Promoting the “localest” food of all, globally
Roger Doiron’s Eat the View campaign succeeded in convincing Michelle Obama to plant a garden at the White House. Roger says:
I ran into someone at a food conference the day before the awards ceremony who said “you guys are like the ‘dog who caught the car’…what are you going to do next?” Had I...
“We have no art. We do everything as well as we can.”
– Balinese saying, via Sister Corita
The Last Question by Isaac Asimov © 1956 →
The last question was asked for the first time, half in jest, on May 21, 2061, at a time when humanity first stepped into the light. The question came about as a result of a five dollar bet over highballs, and it happened this way:…
Dougal Wilson →
Creator of Orange “Rainbow” and other extra-special productions.
Breakthrough →
Human Rights shouldn’t only exist within international papers…
…they should also exist within our daily lives. Breakthrough aims to “build human rights culture” with regard to how we individually treat and relate to each other.
WatchMIT professor William J. Mitchell and team.
Inventors of the lightweight, folding RoboScooter.
Winners of the 2009 Buckminster Fuller Challenge.
“Mobility-on-Demand systems utilize fleets of shared-use lightweight electric vehicles placed at automatic charging racks throughout a city. The CityCar and RoboScooter, both folding vehicles, along with the Green-Wheel Bicycle, minimize...
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
Felicia Day →
Blogger extraordinaire and TV star
April 2009
12 posts
Liz Keogh
I like how she uses her blog to teach. How do you pronounce “Keogh”? Wisegeek.com:
Posted by: rjohnson Because I mispronounced Keogh and was called to task for it ;), let me help spread the word on how to properly pronounce Keogh…. Don’t let the spelling deceive you. It’s pronounced key-oh, as in “where is my _key_?” “_oh_ there...
Michael Gregory
creator of Auto-Tune the News and Winston Churchill backed by band from the future
Bob Sutton
creator of the Asshole Rating Self-Exam (ARSE)
Omar Ismail, A Framework for Understanding... →
Applying it to People
This is all well and good, but how do we apply this to people, and how do we know what people’s weightings are? Well this is where Bartle’s paper comes into play. From analyzing MUDs in the 90s he proposes that there are 4 distinct classes of users/members.
Achievers - get satisfaction from overcoming obstacles, gaining ranks, and improving their status
C >= I >...
Test of 800-number audio blogging: ragtime pianist...
James Wanless, PhD, "Captain Pick A Card" →
Creator of Voyager Tarot
The Founders of Veggietrader.com →
Connecting gardeners who have surplus homegrown produce or plants (fruit, vegetables, herbs, nuts, plants, seeds, starts & flowers) with neighbors that want them. The idea is to give away, barter, or sell excess food (except for meat & dairy), and there’s also a category for “charitable organizations” for those who want to donate to nonprofits. You can enter your zip code...
