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If you’re anything like me, you totally nerd out over what to read, checking editorial and user reviews until your ISP shuts down your connection. With so many books to choose from and so much review information to obsess over, wouldn’t it be nice to have yet another review source to consider? Of course it
Read More...Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 11/12/10
Busy week, so let’s skip any silly precursory stories (such as the one involving my cat and how he has discovered that he can chew on a bathtub faucet knob with such horrible force that it wakes me up, and even when you start laughing and tell him to stop at 3:20 AM he just
Read More...The First Windows Phone 7 Ads Emerge
The first two Windows Phone 7 (WP7) ads have been released, and they are, in a word, excellent. The first, called ‘Season of the Witch’, is set to Donovan’s song by the same name, depicts a post-apocalyptic scene of accidents caused by people with their heads buried in their phones. Very clever, and the music is a
Read More...How to Accept an Award
With today’s overblown, overrunning, dramatics-filled awards shows, we forget what it was like when people knew how to accept an industry award with grace and brevity. To wit, check out John Wayne accepting his Oscar for his performance in True Grit in 1970. (And get a load of that nominee lineup.) Speaking of True Grit,
Read More...Altruistic Politeness Enforcement Tactics
Interesting piece from The Guardian in which Oliver Burkeman suggests society might be better off if we all inflicted some altruistic punishment on rude people.
Read More...Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 7/2/10
Chances are nobody is reading this post because they are on a beach or heading up north or in the backyard setting up a homemade slip-n-slide with baby shampoo (heard that on the radio this morning), so I’ll spare you the silly prefatory babble and get right to the links that you might be able
Read More...Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 6/25/10
In the middle of doing some heavy RFP work right now, so I won’t tell you the story about the time some guy lost his mind in a volleyball tournament and flipped a picnic table over onto the referee who was reffing his match. This was his way of disputing an out of bounds call.
Read More...Merlin Mann: Revaluing Time & Attention
Merlin Mann, blogger-cum-hesitant-guru on productivity, workflow and the modern attention economy, recently was asked to give a talk at Rutgers University. His talk wound up being experimental — in Mann’s own words, he just riffed — but nonetheless it was fantastic. You can see it standalone here. (If you know Mann, you know this is
Read More...QUOTE: On Teaching
I teach the way that I wish I was taught. —Sal Khan, Khan Academy (Via SvN)
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