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Short posts and notes.

• World Press Photo of the Year - 2011. Check out all the 2011 winners from…

• The smartest people are pointing us to games

  Reginald Braithwaite shares my sentiment about a tragedy in technology.

• That would be messy. Check out more Brilliantly Sarcastic Responses To…

• Solve for X: Neal Stephenson on getting big stuff done (by wesolveforx ).…

• There’s more of these incredible sculptures on Takanori Aiba’s Flickr…

• Ayn Rand via Letters of Note , where you can read the full letter with this…

  A person who exists only for the sake of his loved one is not an independent entity, but a spiritual parasite. The love of a parasite is worth nothing.

• Jacob Sutton’s L.E.D. Snowboarder (by tb303meets606 ). Fashion photographer…

• There's a place to go if you're paranoid

  I’m not paranoid on the web (yet), but if I were I’m happy to know there’s a place to go. DuckDuckGo, the anonymous web browser, has an illustrated guide cal...

• Awesome . Flavorwire’s compilations of The 20 Most Beautiful Bookstores in…

• Breaking an addiction to Equasy or banning it entirely

  Jeff Stier of Reason Magazine, in his essay Modern-Day Prohibition, shared the story of psychopharmacologist David Nutt, who didn’t think Ecstasy and LSD sho...

• School Kills Creativity - Ken Robinson (by koekskesberg ). There’s also his…

• via xkcd: Kerning

• THE COMPOSITES

  THE COMPOSITES

• Obviously, I’m not condoning piracy, but it’s clear from this image that…

• “Cigarettes are like squirrels. They’re not dangerous until you put one in…

• This is what life was like before Google fixed it. (via Shoebox » Chuck &…

• Mark Twain in Following the Equator via Brain Pickings

  Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.

• David Allen, Productive Living

  The value of goals is not in the future they describe, but the change in perception of reality they foster. What we focus on changes what we notice. Our brai...

• Follow the TV References

• Marry a happy person. (via Dilbert comic strip for 02/10/2012 from the…

• Art History Through Sci Fi-Colored Glasses

• African proverb

  If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go with a group.

• Wordpharmacy is a concrete poetical work, which playfully equates the…

• I don’t know if anyone I know will get this. (via ThinkGeek :: ~/ Sweet ~/…

• Under the Microscope #6 by CambridgeUniversity Cancer cells get attacked by…

• Countries & Colour by Jerod Gibson This is an ongoing series of geographic…

• Pick one goal for all your priorities

  Scott Adams shares the one goal he focuses on that serves the multiple priorities in his life.

• I am… via Flickr Blog . Iamaustin published the photos from this lovely…

• The Scale of the Universe 2

  The Scale of the Universe 2

• Age-Maps

  Bobby Neel Adams spliced together photos of six individuals from when they were children and adults to make these interesting Age-Maps.

• Why text?

  Marco Arment, creator of Instapaper, spoke to Stephen Hackett of 512pixles about why he chooses text as his medium of choice.

• Reality TV's many intersections

  This Venn Diagram from New York Magazine shows an incredible amount of overlap in the titles and themes of various reality show.

• Afghanistan – touch down in flight by Augustin Pictures As each of us has…

• Self-proclaimed useless features

• Hacker News for marketers

  Rand Fishkin from Moz and Dharmesh Shah from HubSpot launched a Hacker News like site for marketers, Inbound.org.

• I’ve never paid for cable, but this chart alone should make cutting the cord…

• There a lot more of these prints by Niege Borges to enjoy , including ones…

• Anatomical paper craft

• A Brief History of Computing Platforms (by AsymcoInteractive ) Read more…

• The constitutions of classic cocktails

  Pop Chart Lab has this detailed diagram of many classic cocktails.

• grantimatter : Rules of engagement. I think I may need to make these a…

• Superbowl Twitter mentions visualized on Hotspots.io

  Superbowl Twitter mentions visualized on Hotspots.io

• Dress Pant Sweatpants from Betabrand I doubt I could get away with these at…

• To Know, but Not Understand: David Weinberger on Science and Big Data

  To Know, but Not Understand: David Weinberger on Science and Big Data

• Everything old is new again

  According to Eric Felten, in his WSJ.com review of the book New by Winifred Gallagher,

• Death by brainstorming

  Gathering opinions from everyone in the room is still in vogue, but creative work is still best done in solitude. Susan Cain of The New York times explores t...

• Processes instead of goals

  Dilbert Creator Scott Adams talks about what works for his success in an essay on his blog called The Yoke of Credibility.

• The bottle of wits

  This Princess Bride themed wine from the Alamo Draft House will be available for Valentine’s Day.

• Thomas Sowell

  If you don’t like growing older, don’t worry about it. You may not be growing older much longer.

• Joseph Conrad, Victory

  Consummate politeness is not the right tonic for an emotional collapse.