Blog – page 18 of 30
-
oliphillips : Life is Beautiful by Farhad Moshiri
-
Jason Theodor, M.A.P.S.: The Four Pillars of Creative Job Fulfillment
It takes considerable energy to plan your own future, but if you don’t figure out what you want to become, someone else will define it for you.
-
Trying to keep my lunch.
-
“What if…” Movies reimagined for another time & place via Behance.
-
Changing the past
I love e-books, especially on my Kindle, but Nicholas Carr or the Wall Street Journal has some interesting ideas on the danger of e-books.
-
Magnus Carlsen, chess master (via Chess News)
I don’t have any clear preferences in chess. I do what I think circumstances require of me – I attack, defend or go into the endgame. Having preferences mean...
-
Thomas Sowell
The real egalitarians are not the people who want to redistribute wealth to the poor, but those who want to extend to the poor the ability to create their ow...
-
Super high-def image of earth from space
-
The greatest invention
Tom Standage argues that writing is the greatest invention.
-
Photographers with their best work
Wired has a collection of portraits by Tim Mantoani of photographers holding prints of their most famous works.
-
The public domain needs Mickey Mouse
Kevin Kelley points out the value of the public domain.
-
This is my life.
-
What's different about this tech bubble?
Bussinessweek’s Ashlee Vance explores some of the unique aspects of the current tech bubble in her article, This Tech Bubble Is Different. The biggest proble...
-
A degree alone is not enough
Degrees are losing their clout according to the New York Times.
-
16th Century social media
Social media brought attention to and was even the force behind several social revolutions in the past 12 months. However, The Economist show that the use of...
-
Five musicians sharing a guitar: Somebody That I Used to Know - Walk off the…
-
Oh, the Places You’ll Go, recited by Burning Man goers (by Tedshots )
-
These books are alive
-
Quiz yourself. (via 2000s Film Alphabet, Poster That Quizzes Your 2000′s…
-
Fotoshop by Adobé
Get the beauty product used by celebrities everywhere. Look like your favorite magazine starlet!
-
This is not my presentation..I hope
I’m giving a few presentations for work at the end of this month. I’m nervous but hopeful that they’ll turn out better than this:
-
The Planetary Chocolates of the Solar System
-
How to nap - Boston.com
How to nap - Boston.com
-
git - the simple guide
git - the simple guide
-
Primary Elections Explained by CGPGrey . This video explains many of the…
-
The day the music died
This clever Tumblr features album cover art with the dead band members digitally removed.
-
Jeff Bezos - from Wired Magazine
If everything you do needs to work on a three-year time horizon, then you’re competing against a lot of people. But if you’re willing to invest on a seven-ye...
-
foxontherun : (via graphics / your dreams )
-
Shake On It – It’s Not Crazy, It’s Sports – ESPN Commercial (by ESPN )
-
milkchugger : By recovering lazyholic
-
ollymoss : Star Wars My take on the original Star Wars Trilogy.…
-
Batman, Meet Dr. Seuss via The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century
-
Is Life Good?
-
Last post from a writer's writer
One of my favorite writer’s writers has given a final sign off from his weekly blog. William Zinsser, author of On Writing Well , signed of after several yea...
-
Has Hollywood Lost it’s Way? via Short of the Week
-
Drip Coffee
-
The Title Design of Saul Bass
-
History of the Modern Calendar
Jeremiah Warren made this quick history of the modern calendar.
-
Facebook: a wasted platform
Facebook’s Memology takes a look at the top 10 global topics of 2011.
-
United State of Pop
Once a year, my dislike of pop music comes into conflict with my love for well done mashup/remixes thanks to the amazing work of DJ Earworm.
-
William Dersiewicz: The Entrepreneurial Generation - NYTimes.com
Today’s ideal social form is not the commune or the movement or even the individual creator as such; it’s the small business. Every artistic or moral aspirat...
-
Notes from "The Way to Wealth"
Below are some highlights from my recent reading of Benjamin Franklin’s “The Way to Wealth”, a collection of some of the better known of Poor Richard’s sayin...
-
Fyodor Dostoyevsky – The Idiot
We degrade God when we attribute our own ideas to Him, out of annoyance that we cannot fathom His ways.
-
Granpa Shuffelin'
Old people dancing is awesome. And the Internet is awesome for setting their classic steps to contemporary music.
-
What do teachers know when they're not doers?
Bret Victor questions the effectiveness of educators that do not actively participate in the subjects they teach in his essay Some Thoughts on Teaching.
-
What Are You Doing New Years Eve?
Song sung by Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt
-
Why I Prefer Pro
I’m not a big sports enthusiast, but I’ve always been more interested in professional sports. I was never sure why I had that preference, but Taylor Branch’s...
-
–Viktor E. Frankl, Holocaust survivor, author of Man’s Search for Meaning via
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task.
-
City Math
Author Jonah Lehrer reports on Geoffrey West’s attempt to understand how cities work.
-
JAMES TARANTO, Better Late Than Never - WSJ.com
What do you call a political movement that’s half peaceful and half violent? A violent political movement.