Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 2/19/10
Before we get to the links, one reminder: if you use PeopleSoft Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) or are considering it, I cannot encourage you strongly enough to attend the Oracle Maintenance Summit. This event is being held on March 9-10 in Redwood Shores, CA, and has 117 companies and nearly 300 attendees so far. If EAM is in your plans this year, you simply won’t find a better community-driven networking and discussion event than this. Full stop. I know travel budgets might still be tight, but this will be worth it if EAM is on your radar.
That said, here’s the best the Internet had to offer this week. I doubt you’ll disagree.
Speaking of tight travel, The NYTimes Frugal Traveler blog has a detailed piece on how to find the cheapest flights online amidst the myriad travel sites, plans and choices. EAM tire-kickers, take heed!
A conversation I have every month or so. Fellow iPhone users, this is our pickle.
I’ve always been fascinated by the Marianas Trench, the deepest recorded part of the ocean just off the coast of Japan. I think of this 36,000 ft. deep trench as a sort of inverted, underwater Mount Everest, and I remember watching a PBS special when I was a kid in which a giant white ‘sea spider’ was found in the trench, and it was 8′ tall and ghostly and grotesque and otherworldly. The potential for horrifying sea monsters and undiscovered species aside, the vast, crushing depth of it is actually mind boggling. How mind boggling? This much. Note the infinitesimal dot sitting atop the water. That’d be you.
The One Who Got Away: a wonderful feature from Pictory that features lost loves, roads not taken, former friends and difficult choices.
As a parent of a five year old who views Daddy’s phone as nothing more than a portable gaming machine, I was thrilled to find Matt Haughey’s list of recommended kids games for the iPhone. (Although he forgot Skee-Ball and Ramp Champ, both of which entertain my son endlessly.)
John Updike: “The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.”
The NY Times interviews George Cloutier, author and CEO of American Management Services. Interesting take on management theory, no doubt from the Atilla the Hun school of business. I wonder how much of his perspective is shaped by a lack of children and the accompanying obligations that come with parenthood?
Have a good weekend, everyone.
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