This week’s delivery from the link stork: The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart puts the entire lost iPhone/Gizmodo thing in perspective. Regardless of your stance on Apple, Stewart makes some good points. Absolutely perfect — and I mean perfect — viral video for Lots-o’-Huggin Bear, one of the new characters in Disney/Pixar’s upcoming Toy Story 3.
Read More...Matt over at SvN points me to the keynote address from this year’s MIT Sports Analytics Conference, which, on the surface, probably isn’t the first thing you’ll be Googling for in the morning. But despite it being moderated by Michael Lewis and featuring an a pretty good panel, it gets very interesting at about 20
Read More...I don’t often wander too far into pop culture on this blog, but Esquire’s Chris Jones has a simply awesome profile of Roger Ebert that explores the man, dying and unable to speak, in the midst of his own personal renaissance as a writer. Ebert writes about his own impending mortality as bravely and candidly
Read More...Derek Sivers’ 3-minute TED talk on leadership lessons from this dancing guy got a standing ovation.
Read More...“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into
Read More...Incredible visualization of Crayola’s colors from 1903 until today, created by Weather Sealed. All of you Edward Tufte fans should dig this. Crayola’s Law: “The number of hues doubles every 28 years.” (Via Neven Mrgan)
Read More...And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident,
Read More...My 2-year-old daughter surprised me recently with two words: “Daddy’s book.” She was holding my Kindle electronic reader. Here is a child only beginning to talk, revealing that the seeds of the next generation gap have already been planted. She has identified the Kindle as a substitute for words printed on physical pages. I own
Read More...As usual, Schneier is among the clearest heads in the fray when it comes to threat analysis: Despite this, the proposed fixes focus on the details of the plot rather than the broad threat. We’re going to install full-body scanners, even though there are lots of ways to hide PETN — stuff it in a
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