Blog – page 8 of 30

Short posts and notes.

• Google Reader, I will miss you

  We’ve spent a lot of time together over the years.

• Pope Francis

  The new Pope overlooking St. Peter’s Square. Everyone wanted to get a picture.

• Outnumbered

  Small states have a significant advantage in the senate.

• The falling man

  Kerry Skarbakka makes the act of falling into a work of art.

• Chicago Past

  Here’s a website with a collection of historic pictures of the city of my birth.

• R-Rated Pixar

  I like these r-rated classic movie scenes made into Pixar style art. I’d read these book if someone made them, but I won’t read them to my kids. Yet.

• Let's make everyone above average

  From Don Boudreaux’s news story, Minimum Grade:

• Hypnotic motion

  Don’t look too long at these hypnotic animated GIFs.

• Coffitivity

  Like the coffee shop vibe but hate coffee? Need to focus, but it’s too quiet or the background noise is too distracting? Coffitivity promises an ideal level ...

• An astronaut’s advice

  Zen Pencils never fails to inspire. The latest entry about Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield tells a beautiful success story.

• This is not a fair fight

• Promoting old books with new movies

  Promoting old books with new movies

• On a happy note

• How Search Works - The Story - “ Behind your simple page of results is a…

  How Search Works - The Story - “ Behind your simple page of results is a complex system, carefully crafted and tested, to support more than one-hundred billi...

• Look…I’m a bat.

• Beijing air pollution :

• Is there a pope?

  Is there a pope?

• How big is the moon?

• rough-and-tumblr : babbling brook.

• Language communities of Twitter (European detail) (by Eric Fischer )

• You had one job

  You had one job

• John Siracusa - Hypercritical: Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow

  Mistakes will be made in the march towards the future. But the worst possible mistake is neglecting to do the work required to get there because you think we...

• A flash of lighting is seen over St. Peter’s Basilica during a rainstorm at…

• 50 Years Ago: The World in 1963

  50 Years Ago: The World in 1963

• When you pass on valentine’s messages to your loved one’s this year, don’t…

• My name is difficult to pronounce ( apparently ). And Merlin Mann thinks I…

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• This Is What the Sky Could Look Like Over New York - NYTimes.com

• Ash Wednesday

• Accurate

• Northeast Slammed by Blizzard

  Northeast Slammed by Blizzard

• The Postal Service - A Tattered Line of String [OFFICIAL TRACK] (not the…

• Hand-painted Batman mug: courtesy of my wife. For my birthday.

• The Link Between Kids Who Walk or Bike to School and Concentration

  The Link Between Kids Who Walk or Bike to School and Concentration

• It’s my boat

• How to make wine

• Adam Green: The Spectacular Thefts of Apollo Robbins, Pickpocket

  Adam Green: The Spectacular Thefts of Apollo Robbins, Pickpocket

• Seeing Art

  Here’s what you do. Click the Wikipaintings random link over and over. In fact, open 20 new tabs in the background. Now you’ve generated your own little art ...

• Coffee: It Gets Me Through the Day - Imgur

• A short history of the death of culture

  A short history of the death of culture

• China’s toxic sky makes for a whole industry of clever protective masks.

  China’s toxic sky makes for a whole industry of clever protective masks.

• Bonds, James Bonds

• Feeding swans and ducks

• littlepawz : What a wonderful idea: Pittsburgh Children’s Hospital brightens…

• Ideology, Not Competence

  Ideology, Not Competence

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• I’ve been enjoying this with the boy.

• merlin : Mandy Moore - “When Will My Life Begin?” ( Tangled , 2010) I…

• Twitter / Cmdr_Hadfield: Weightless water

• Fred Wilson A VC: Just Do It

  Marc Andreessen says you either will be the person who tells the computer what to do or the person that the computer tells what to do. I see more and more yo...

• The Wolf Man

  The Wolf Man