White iPhone bestows immortality? - IPHONETOUCH.BLORGE

White iPhone bestows immortality? - IPHONETOUCH.BLORGE: "the real scoop is that the white iPhone bestows immortality and as such only Steve Jobs has one. That would explain, once and for all, why the white iPhone has not yet been released and why it has been removed from the Apple Web site. We mere mortals were never intended to have a white iPhone 4."

All Programs Considered by Bill McKibben | The New York Review of Books

All Programs Considered by Bill McKibben | The New York Review of Books: "I was told by a prominent young producer. “Now young people come to the radio with the idea that it’s cool. ‘Cool’ and ‘radio’ in the same sentence is a whole new phenomenon.”"

All Programs Considered by Bill McKibben | The New York Review of Books

All Programs Considered by Bill McKibben | The New York Review of Books: "As they become the primary news source for more and more Americans, public radio newsmagazines are restricting their own ability to move listeners. Like physicians in medieval times they seek to balance the four humors (so as not be too choleric, sanguine, phlegmatic, or melancholy) by blood-letting. Public radio newsmagazines are looking a little pallid these days, because the passion has been drained off.2"

In just 30 days, you too can write a masterpiece - News, Books - The Independent

In just 30 days, you too can write a masterpiece - News, Books - The Independent: "Two years ago, Birdsong author Sebastian Faulks wrote a James Bond thriller, Devil May Care, in only six weeks – following the work pattern of Bond's creator, Ian Fleming."

Woman Charlie Sheen was with during his drunken night ID'd as porn star Capri Anderson - NYPOST.com

Woman Charlie Sheen was with during his drunken night ID'd as porn star Capri Anderson - NYPOST.com: "Sheen then flew back to Los Angeles, where he is set to resume shooting next week for his CBS sit-com, which pays him nearly $2 million per episode."

Wait, two million per episode? That's unbelievable.

The Anosognosic's Dilemma: Something's Wrong but You'll Never Know What It Is (Part 1) - NYTimes.com

The Anosognosic's Dilemma: Something's Wrong but You'll Never Know What It Is (Part 1) - NYTimes.com: "Dunning wondered whether it was possible to measure one’s self-assessed level of competence against something a little more objective — say, actual competence. Within weeks, he and his graduate student, Justin Kruger, had organized a program of research. Their paper, “Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties of Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-assessments,” was published in 1999.[3]"

Perl and Nuclear Weapons Don't Mix - The Perl Journal, Winter 1997

Perl and Nuclear Weapons Don't Mix - The Perl Journal, Winter 1997: "I meekly suggested that the task of finding and fixing the bugs could be automated by a Perl script, and it was then that they asked me to leave the room."

Perl and Nuclear Weapons Don't Mix - The Perl Journal, Winter 1997

Perl and Nuclear Weapons Don't Mix - The Perl Journal, Winter 1997: "Red Alert!

Sometimes I think working for NORAD is like being a systems administrator. As long as you do your job well, everyone else ignores you with impunity. It's only when crises occur that people notice you, and not many pleasantries get exchanged when that happens.

However, if you ever get the chance to observe see a full-blown military crisis firsthand, I recommend the experience. It's kind of like when the fire alarm goes off in high school. You're pretty sure it's a false alarm. You act like it's a big joke. But there's a little jittery part of you worrying that you will soon be engulfed in a huge scholastic inferno and miss the prom."

UniWar | official site

UniWar | official site

How to make a map.

I'm going to be a college professor | MetaFilter

I'm going to be a college professor | MetaFilter: "I would stick a shrimp fork in my eye before even remotely considering leading a different life or changing one bit of the career path I've stumbled along for the 28 years since I was a first-year MA student. The smartest, most fortuitous thing I ever did was go to graduate school and get a humanities doctorate because it's what I was most suited for, and because of all I learned along the way and keep learning with and from the students who give a [expletive]. I'm aware that it doesn't work out this well for everyone and academic jobs are -- and have throughout my professional life been -- hard to get. And that is unfortunate, except maybe it does also sift out some of the people who are quite bright indeed but not really cut out for a lifetime of 90-minute meetings to distribute travel funding or morning-long discussions of department bylaw revisions."

Secret Money in Iowa - NYTimes.com

Secret Money in Iowa - NYTimes.com: "As The Times reported recently, the American Future Fund was started with money from Bruce Rastetter, an ethanol company executive. Mr. Braley supports ethanol tax credits — a favorite in Iowa. Mr. Rastetter, who is pushing to defeat several Democrats on the House energy and agriculture committees, has not explained his political goals.

The fund, based in Iowa, has spent at least $574,000 to run a series of anti-Braley ads. One that is particularly pernicious shows images of the ruined World Trade Center and then intones, “Incredibly, Bruce Braley supports building a mosque at ground zero.” Actually, Mr. Braley has never said that, stating only that the matter should be left to New Yorkers."

How Smart Cafeterias Could Fight Childhood Obesity - David R. Just and Brian Wansink - Food - The Atlantic

How Smart Cafeterias Could Fight Childhood Obesity - David R. Just and Brian Wansink - Food - The Atlantic: "Instead, the ideal lunchroom—the smartest lunchroom—would be the one that led children to make healthy choices in the face of some more tempting options."

Univision set to become top U.S. broadcast network - Yahoo! News

Univision set to become top U.S. broadcast network - Yahoo! News: "NEW YORK (Adweek) – With double-digit ratings growth this season, Spanish-language broadcaster Univision is off to a better start than any of the major English-language networks, and the future is promising as well.

The new census is expected to show a nearly 45% increase in the number of Hispanic Americans since 2000, to a total of 50 million. This couples with continuing audience erosion at the major networks and Univision's recent deal with Mexican programer Grupo Televisa, which locks up the source of much the network's popular programing for at least another decade."

Spiritual cleanser sentenced for sex abuse | The Salt Lake Tribune

Spiritual cleanser sentenced for sex abuse | The Salt Lake Tribune: "But long before the Guatemalan transvestite came to be known as a Mayan priestess named Nicole Morales, Jose David Morales-Hernandez was a little boy subject to regular group rapes and beatings by his gangster cousins, his lawyer said at his sentencing Monday."

Book Review - Zero History - By William Gibson - NYTimes.com

Book Review - Zero History - By William Gibson - NYTimes.com: "When I was a teenager, I used to play records and imagine that, because of probability and the fact that the world was so vast, some other teenager on the other side of the globe was listening to the same thing at the same time. Then the Internet came along and disillusioned me. It wasn’t so much that the Web created a “global village,” but it did make the world seem a lot smaller: it became obvious that some things just didn’t exist, and that there were thousands of phrases that no one was tweeting or Googling. No one was necessarily listening to the same record as I was. One of the great things Gibson does is put some romance back into the digital world."

An Exchange on Manufacturing Consent, Noam Chomsky interviewed by various activists (Excerpted from Understanding Power)

An Exchange on Manufacturing Consent, Noam Chomsky interviewed by various activists (Excerpted from Understanding Power): "In fact, it's extremely important for people with power not to let anybody understand this, to make them think there are big leaders around who somehow get things going, and then what everybody else has to do is follow them. That's one of the ways of demeaning people, and degrading them and making them passive. I don't know how to overcome this exactly, but it's really something people ought to work on."

Legalized Pot's Unlikely Supporters: Moms And Cops : NPR

Legalized Pot's Unlikely Supporters: Moms And Cops : NPR: "'It's borderline legal, illegal, gray-area stuff,' he says, 'breeding high strain, high quality, high medicinal marijuana in a sacred way.'"

Legalized Pot's Unlikely Supporters: Moms And Cops : NPR

Legalized Pot's Unlikely Supporters: Moms And Cops : NPR: "'These exotic strains that we know and love are going to quickly become obsolete because a 5-by-5 space is just not enough space to breed and experiment all these new strains,' she says. 'It would be a real shame if we lost all of this variety.'"

FoxNews.com - JUAN WILLIAMS: I Was Fired for Telling the Truth

FoxNews.com - JUAN WILLIAMS: I Was Fired for Telling the Truth: "Daniel Schorr, my fellow NPR commentator who died earlier this year, used to talk about the initial shock of finding himself on President Nixon’s enemies list. I can only imagine Dan’s revulsion to realize that today NPR treats a journalist who has worked for them for ten years with less regard, less respect for the value of independence of thought and embrace of real debate across political lines, than Nixon ever displayed."

Ouch.

How-To: Enable WebDAV on Your Mac for iWork on iPad: Apple �

How-To: Enable WebDAV on Your Mac for iWork on iPad: Apple �: "How-To: Enable WebDAV on Your Mac for iWork on�iPad"

Facebook turns zombie game into monster happening - USATODAY.com

Facebook turns zombie game into monster happening - USATODAY.com: "Alisa Landrum, a high school French teacher who lives a couple of blocks from the starting point, is concerned about the area's elderly being terrified by marauding hordes of zombies."

Goliath: A website management application for MacOS

Goliath: A website management application for MacOS

Build Your Workday Around Focus: Tips from the Trenches

Build Your Workday Around Focus: Tips from the Trenches: "How to start your day right:

1. Write 'FOCUS' on an index card. It sounds silly, but if you can't commit to this simple step, you probably won't commit to the others. Write it down, and keep it next to you on your desk. It's a simple reminder, to help you be conscious.

2. Write down your Most Important Task for today. Actually write it down, on the same index card. You're going to do this first. It should be a high-impact task that makes a big difference to your business, career, life. Something that you're excited about is best."

Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science - Magazine - The Atlantic

Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science - Magazine - The Atlantic: "sure, a lot of dubious research makes it into journals, but we researchers and physicians know to ignore it and focus on the good stuff, so what’s the big deal? The other paper headed off that claim. He zoomed in on 49 of the most highly regarded research findings in medicine over the previous 13 years, as judged by the science community’s two standard measures: the papers had appeared in the journals most widely cited in research articles, and the 49 articles themselves were the most widely cited articles in these journals. These were articles that helped lead to the widespread popularity of treatments such as the use of hormone-replacement therapy for menopausal women, vitamin E to reduce the risk of heart disease, coronary stents to ward off heart attacks, and daily low-dose aspirin to control blood pressure and prevent heart attacks and strokes. Ioannidis was putting his contentions to the test not against run-of-the-mill research, or even merely well-accepted research, but against the absolute tip of the research pyramid. Of the 49 articles, 45 claimed to have uncovered effective interventions. Thirty-four of these claims had been retested, and 14 of these, or 41 percent, had been convincingly shown to be wrong or significantly exaggerated."

Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science - Magazine - The Atlantic

Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science - Magazine - The Atlantic: "Researchers headed into their studies wanting certain results—and, lo and behold, they were getting them. We think of the scientific process as being objective, rigorous, and even ruthless in separating out what is true from what we merely wish to be true, but in fact it’s easy to manipulate results, even unintentionally or unconsciously. “At every step in the process, there is room to distort results, a way to make a stronger claim or to select what is going to be concluded,” says Ioannidis. “There is an intellectual conflict of interest that pressures researchers to find whatever it is that is most likely to get them funded.”"

Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science - Magazine - The Atlantic

Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science - Magazine - The Atlantic: "In poring over medical journals, he was struck by how many findings of all types were refuted by later findings. Of course, medical-science “never minds” are hardly secret. And they sometimes make headlines, as when in recent years large studies or growing consensuses of researchers concluded that mammograms, colonoscopies, and PSA tests are far less useful cancer-detection tools than we had been told; or when widely prescribed antidepressants such as Prozac, Zoloft, and Paxil were revealed to be no more effective than a placebo for most cases of depression; or when we learned that staying out of the sun entirely can actually increase cancer risks; or when we were told that the advice to drink lots of water during intense exercise was potentially fatal; or when, last April, we were informed that taking fish oil, exercising, and doing puzzles doesn’t really help fend off Alzheimer’s disease, as long claimed. Peer-reviewed studies have come to opposite conclusions on whether using cell phones can cause brain cancer, whether sleeping more than eight hours a night is healthful or dangerous, whether taking aspirin every day is more likely to save your life or cut it short, and whether routine angioplasty works better than pills to unclog heart arteries."

NPR Should Have Let Juan Williams Go Years Ago – The Awl

NPR Should Have Let Juan Williams Go Years Ago – The Awl: "And now come the threats to terminate NPR's government funding. NPR should respond by telling the blowhards to bring it on. Federal funding makes up about 2 percent of NPR's budget. Even by the most extreme maximum estimates, including indirect sources, less than 10 percent of NPR's annual budget is from the kind of federal funding its enemies like to say it depends on. Losing that (still-valuable) 10 percent might be worth finally being rid of the 'publicly funded' albatross that has plagued the NPR brand."

Income inequality in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Income inequality in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[check out the cool chart at the bottom]

Flashlight Holder

Flashlight Holder

Mount for Maglite on Helmet - Mountain Bike Forums

Mount for Maglite on Helmet - Mountain Bike Forums

DKG-MagLite Sales Page

DKG-MagLite Sales Page

Some great looking maglite flashlight mounts.

Wired 1.04: Disneyland with the Death Penalty

Wired 1.04: Disneyland with the Death Penalty: "'It's like an entire country run by Jeffrey Katzenberg,' the producer had said, 'under the motto 'Be happy or I'll kill you.'' We were sitting in an office a block from Rodeo Drive, on large black furniture leased with Japanese venture capital.
Now that I'm actually here, the Disneyland metaphor is proving impossible to shake. For that matter, Rodeo Drive comes frequently to mind, though the local equivalent feels more like 30 or 40 Beverly Centers put end to end."

Apolitically Incorrect � Automatically Importing an MS Word Document into LyX

Apolitically Incorrect � Automatically Importing an MS Word Document into LyX: "Unfortunately, one my favorite Open Source Writing programs, the LaTeX front-end LyX, does not support Microsoft Word files. And even though I prefer to write using LyX and LaTeX, I’m often forced to use MS Word simply so that I can “stay in the loop”.
But that doesn’t mean I’ve been happy about it.
When I’m not happy, I�get motivated to solve the problem.� Thus,�I’ve been trying to shoehorn my preferred tools into a world dominated by Word for a very long time.� After experimenting with a lot of different options, I think I’ve finally come up with a system seems to work pretty well. Specifically:
It allows me to import Microsoft Word files into LyX with a single click.
It maintains most document structure, including headers, styles, and other structural elements.
It successfully translates MS Word syntax to LyX.� This means that I do not need to spend time repairing double quotes or fixing em-dashes."

DealExtreme: $1.97 Flashlight Mount

DealExtreme: $1.97 Flashlight Mount

Must buy two of these.

TimeTripper Java Application

TimeTripper Java Application

I owned the cardboard version of this game as a kid, purchased at Hammond Toys. Now I can play it online!

How to catch an iPhone thief: Busting an iPhone thief

How to catch an iPhone thief: Busting an iPhone thief: "Now, I like using google to find information on people, but I never really dive in too deep. By stealing my phone, Pinche gave me the moral greenlight to stalk the shit out of him and take away any sense of privacy he has for the rest of his life. I really couldn't get law-enforcement to help (they said that unless someone's life is in danger, they cant do anything), so my only option was to keep [redacted] with this guy until he returns my iPhone."

My amazon wishlist. Not that I want anyone to get me anything, but it's a list of things I've found interesting.

Latest wants

Your Brain: The Missing Manual (Missing Manuals)

On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen

A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)

Zojirushi SL-JAE14 Mr. Bento Stainless Steel Lunch Jar

Zojirushi SL-NCE09 Ms. Bento Stainless-Steel​ Vacuum Lunch Jar

MEElectronics M9-BK Hi-Fi Sound-Isolating​ In-Ear Headphones (Black)

Sennheiser CX300-B In-Ear Stereo Headphone

Planet Bike Beamer 3 LED Bicycle Light with Quick Cam Bracket Mount

How to Play Piano Despite Years of Lessons: What Music Is and How to Make It at Home (Instructional)​

How to Play Popular Piano in 10 Easy Lessons: The Fastest, Easiest Way to Learn to Play from Sheet Music or by Ear

NextText: Making Connections Across and Beyond the Disciplines

Practical DITA

The Rhetorical Nature of XML: Constructing Knowledge in Networked Environments

From A to A: Keywords of Markup

Visual Composing: Document Design for Print and Digital Media

Zero History

Faber-Castell 24-Color GRIP Watercolor EcoPencil Set

Faber-Castell Getting Started Watercolor Pencil Art Set

Crayola 24ct Watercolor Colored Pencils

Modernity and the Holocaust

Go-Ped Know-Ped Kick Scooter (Blue)

Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life

Celestron Heavy-Duty Altazimuth Tripod

Celestron SkyMaster 20x80 Binoculars

iGo Stowaway Ultra-Slim Bluetooth Keyboard for PDAs and Handhelds

Your Brain: The Missing Manual (Missing Manuals)

On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen

A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)

Zojirushi SL-JAE14 Mr. Bento Stainless Steel Lunch Jar

Zojirushi SL-NCE09 Ms. Bento Stainless-Steel​ Vacuum Lunch Jar

MEElectronics M9-BK Hi-Fi Sound-Isolating​ In-Ear Headphones (Black)

Sennheiser CX300-B In-Ear Stereo Headphone

Planet Bike Beamer 3 LED Bicycle Light with Quick Cam Bracket Mount

How to Play Piano Despite Years of Lessons: What Music Is and How to Make It at Home (Instructional)​

How to Play Popular Piano in 10 Easy Lessons: The Fastest, Easiest Way to Learn to Play from Sheet Music or by Ear

NextText: Making Connections Across and Beyond the Disciplines

Practical DITA

The Rhetorical Nature of XML: Constructing Knowledge in Networked Environments

From A to A: Keywords of Markup

Visual Composing: Document Design for Print and Digital Media

Zero History

Faber-Castell 24-Color GRIP Watercolor EcoPencil Set

Faber-Castell Getting Started Watercolor Pencil Art Set

Crayola 24ct Watercolor Colored Pencils

Modernity and the Holocaust

Go-Ped Know-Ped Kick Scooter (Blue)

Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life

Celestron Heavy-Duty Altazimuth Tripod

Celestron SkyMaster 20x80 Binoculars

iGo Stowaway Ultra-Slim Bluetooth Keyboard for PDAs and Handhelds

Your Brain: The Missing Manual (Missing Manuals)

On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen

A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)

Zojirushi SL-JAE14 Mr. Bento Stainless Steel Lunch Jar

Zojirushi SL-NCE09 Ms. Bento Stainless-Steel​ Vacuum Lunch Jar

MEElectronics M9-BK Hi-Fi Sound-Isolating​ In-Ear Headphones (Black)

Sennheiser CX300-B In-Ear Stereo Headphone

Planet Bike Beamer 3 LED Bicycle Light with Quick Cam Bracket Mount

How to Play Piano Despite Years of Lessons: What Music Is and How to Make It at Home (Instructional)​

How to Play Popular Piano in 10 Easy Lessons: The Fastest, Easiest Way to Learn to Play from Sheet Music or by Ear

NextText: Making Connections Across and Beyond the Disciplines

Practical DITA

The Rhetorical Nature of XML: Constructing Knowledge in Networked Environments

From A to A: Keywords of Markup

Visual Composing: Document Design for Print and Digital Media

Zero History

Faber-Castell 24-Color GRIP Watercolor EcoPencil Set

Faber-Castell Getting Started Watercolor Pencil Art Set

Crayola 24ct Watercolor Colored Pencils

Modernity and the Holocaust

Go-Ped Know-Ped Kick Scooter (Blue)

Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life

Celestron Heavy-Duty Altazimuth Tripod

Celestron SkyMaster 20x80 Binoculars

iGo Stowaway Ultra-Slim Bluetooth Keyboard for PDAs and Handhelds

Your Brain: The Missing Manual (Missing Manuals)

On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen

A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)

Zojirushi SL-JAE14 Mr. Bento Stainless Steel Lunch Jar

Zojirushi SL-NCE09 Ms. Bento Stainless-Steel​ Vacuum Lunch Jar

MEElectronics M9-BK Hi-Fi Sound-Isolating​ In-Ear Headphones (Black)

Sennheiser CX300-B In-Ear Stereo Headphone

Planet Bike Beamer 3 LED Bicycle Light with Quick Cam Bracket Mount

How to Play Piano Despite Years of Lessons: What Music Is and How to Make It at Home (Instructional)​

How to Play Popular Piano in 10 Easy Lessons: The Fastest, Easiest Way to Learn to Play from Sheet Music or by Ear

NextText: Making Connections Across and Beyond the Disciplines

Practical DITA

The Rhetorical Nature of XML: Constructing Knowledge in Networked Environments

From A to A: Keywords of Markup

Visual Composing: Document Design for Print and Digital Media

Zero History

Faber-Castell 24-Color GRIP Watercolor EcoPencil Set

Faber-Castell Getting Started Watercolor Pencil Art Set

Crayola 24ct Watercolor Colored Pencils

Modernity and the Holocaust

Go-Ped Know-Ped Kick Scooter (Blue)

Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life

Celestron Heavy-Duty Altazimuth Tripod

Celestron SkyMaster 20x80 Binoculars

iGo Stowaway Ultra-Slim Bluetooth Keyboard for PDAs and Handhelds

Your Brain: The Missing Manual (Missing Manuals)

On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen

A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)

Zojirushi SL-JAE14 Mr. Bento Stainless Steel Lunch Jar

Zojirushi SL-NCE09 Ms. Bento Stainless-Steel​ Vacuum Lunch Jar

MEElectronics M9-BK Hi-Fi Sound-Isolating​ In-Ear Headphones (Black)

Sennheiser CX300-B In-Ear Stereo Headphone

Planet Bike Beamer 3 LED Bicycle Light with Quick Cam Bracket Mount

How to Play Piano Despite Years of Lessons: What Music Is and How to Make It at Home (Instructional)​

How to Play Popular Piano in 10 Easy Lessons: The Fastest, Easiest Way to Learn to Play from Sheet Music or by Ear

NextText: Making Connections Across and Beyond the Disciplines

Practical DITA

The Rhetorical Nature of XML: Constructing Knowledge in Networked Environments

From A to A: Keywords of Markup

Visual Composing: Document Design for Print and Digital Media

Zero History

Faber-Castell 24-Color GRIP Watercolor EcoPencil Set

Faber-Castell Getting Started Watercolor Pencil Art Set

Crayola 24ct Watercolor Colored Pencils

Modernity and the Holocaust

Go-Ped Know-Ped Kick Scooter (Blue)

Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life

Celestron Heavy-Duty Altazimuth Tripod

Celestron SkyMaster 20x80 Binoculars

iGo Stowaway Ultra-Slim Bluetooth Keyboard for PDAs and Handhelds

Your Brain: The Missing Manual (Missing Manuals)

On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen

A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)

Zojirushi SL-JAE14 Mr. Bento Stainless Steel Lunch Jar

Zojirushi SL-NCE09 Ms. Bento Stainless-Steel​ Vacuum Lunch Jar

MEElectronics M9-BK Hi-Fi Sound-Isolating​ In-Ear Headphones (Black)

Sennheiser CX300-B In-Ear Stereo Headphone

Planet Bike Beamer 3 LED Bicycle Light with Quick Cam Bracket Mount

How to Play Piano Despite Years of Lessons: What Music Is and How to Make It at Home (Instructional)​

How to Play Popular Piano in 10 Easy Lessons: The Fastest, Easiest Way to Learn to Play from Sheet Music or by Ear

NextText: Making Connections Across and Beyond the Disciplines

Practical DITA

The Rhetorical Nature of XML: Constructing Knowledge in Networked Environments

From A to A: Keywords of Markup

Visual Composing: Document Design for Print and Digital Media

Zero History

Faber-Castell 24-Color GRIP Watercolor EcoPencil Set

Faber-Castell Getting Started Watercolor Pencil Art Set

Crayola 24ct Watercolor Colored Pencils

Modernity and the Holocaust

Go-Ped Know-Ped Kick Scooter (Blue)

Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life

Celestron Heavy-Duty Altazimuth Tripod

Celestron SkyMaster 20x80 Binoculars

iGo Stowaway Ultra-Slim Bluetooth Keyboard for PDAs and Handhelds

Your Brain: The Missing Manual (Missing Manuals)

On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen

A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)

Zojirushi SL-JAE14 Mr. Bento Stainless Steel Lunch Jar

Zojirushi SL-NCE09 Ms. Bento Stainless-Steel​ Vacuum Lunch Jar

MEElectronics M9-BK Hi-Fi Sound-Isolating​ In-Ear Headphones (Black)

Sennheiser CX300-B In-Ear Stereo Headphone

Planet Bike Beamer 3 LED Bicycle Light with Quick Cam Bracket Mount

How to Play Piano Despite Years of Lessons: What Music Is and How to Make It at Home (Instructional)​

How to Play Popular Piano in 10 Easy Lessons: The Fastest, Easiest Way to Learn to Play from Sheet Music or by Ear

NextText: Making Connections Across and Beyond the Disciplines

Practical DITA

The Rhetorical Nature of XML: Constructing Knowledge in Networked Environments

From A to A: Keywords of Markup

Visual Composing: Document Design for Print and Digital Media

Zero History

Faber-Castell 24-Color GRIP Watercolor EcoPencil Set

Faber-Castell Getting Started Watercolor Pencil Art Set

Crayola 24ct Watercolor Colored Pencils

Modernity and the Holocaust

Go-Ped Know-Ped Kick Scooter (Blue)

Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life

Celestron Heavy-Duty Altazimuth Tripod

Celestron SkyMaster 20x80 Binoculars

iGo Stowaway Ultra-Slim Bluetooth Keyboard for PDAs and Handhelds

I think I am going to move my blogging to Wordpress. I've seen so many amazing plugins, like this one:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wptouch/

That will make your blog Iphone-friendly, and also plugins that let you export your site (or entries) as pdf files.


Plus, I basically don't really blog, but just throw up quotes and excerpts of things I'm reading or want to read.

2 Years In Prison - A Man's Story

2 Years In Prison - A Man's Story: "Imagine a kind of forced autism, only without being any kind of savant. That's what prison is. Outside, you're free to keep your head in check. You're free to indulge your mind and keep it healthy. And I guess if you keep your mind healthy, you'll be less inclined to find yourself inside in the first place."

Horrifying account of a two-year prison term. Note to self: never go to prison.

The new liberal arts

The new liberal arts

"

It's 2009. A generation of digital natives is careening towards college. The economy is rebooting itself weekly. We have new responsibilities now -- as employees, citizens, and friends -- and we have new capabilities, too. The new liberal arts equip us for a world like this. But... what are they?

The time is ripe to expand and invigorate our notion of the liberal arts. Is design a liberal art now? How about photography? Food? Personal branding?"

How do I use spaced repetition learning to improve my life? | Ask MetaFilter

How do I use spaced repetition learning to improve my life? | Ask MetaFilter: "But do you guys have any tips for using spaced repetition outside of its usual domains? Do people casually input interesting tidbits they encounter so that they can remember them? Piotr Wozniak apparently does 'spaced reading' in which he learns chunks of articles using spaced repetition, which might be a good way of digesting scientific papers and scholarly articles in a way that keeps them remembered. I'll be doing a research project as part of my degree this year and it would be good to retain lots of knowledge gleaned from papers as it'll come in handy when the final write-up comes round."

brool � Using Org Mode with GTD

brool � Using Org Mode with GTD: "Both Org Mode and Planner Mode are really neat ways to maintain a schedule, and almost sufficient reason to use Emacs in and of themselves. I’ve tried them both, and have found that Org Mode integrates easier with the way that I prefer to work."

Errol Morris on the postmodernity of the electric chair

Errol Morris on the postmodernity of the electric chair: "There is nothing post-modern about the electric chair. It takes a living human being and turns him into a piece of meat."

The "Best American" Essays in The New Yorker, 1985 to the Present—The Squib Report—Emdashes

The "Best American" Essays in The New Yorker, 1985 to the Present—The Squib Report—Emdashes: "2006 (David Foster Wallace, editor)
Calvin Trillin, “Alice, Off the Page,” 3/27/2006
Daniel Raeburn, “Vessels,” 5/1/2006
Malcolm Gladwell, “What the Dog Saw,” 5/22/2006
Louis Menand, “Name that Tone,” 6/26/2006
John Lahr, “Petrified,” 8/28/2006
Richard Preston, “Tall for Its Age,” 10/9/2006
Jill Lepore, “Noah’s Mark,” 11/6/2006
David Sedaris, “Road Trips,” 11/27/2006"

Nick Denton, Gawker Media, and journalism’s future : The New Yorker

Nick Denton, Gawker Media, and journalism’s future : The New Yorker: "“What can you do with a person like that?” Spiegelman said. “He’s a character out of Dr. Seuss, frankly.”
“Nick is a bit of a sphinx on purpose,” Joel Johnson, the longest-serving Gizmodo writer, said. “He has some of the attributes of the dork who wraps his Asperger’s around him like a cloak.”"

MobileOrg Dropbox

MobileOrg Dropbox

A screencast describing how to install and use Emacs Orgmode for the Iphone. Yes, I'd like the cruel shoes please.

Making Student Blogs Pay Off with Blog Audits - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Making Student Blogs Pay Off with Blog Audits - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education: "But how do we get students to realize what they themselves value? How do we get students to think about their blogging as something other than work for a grade?"

Bleeding Cool Chats With Splice Director Vincenzo Natali Bleeding Cool Comic Book News and Rumors

Bleeding Cool Chats With Splice Director Vincenzo Natali Bleeding Cool Comic Book News and Rumors: "The reality is: there were moments along the way where I thought I could have done more mainstream there, and that would have been more widely seen, but it’s just very hard for me to devote that much effort and passion into something that I don’t really care about. That’s always what’s held me back from stepping into the mainstream. Thankfully, with Splice, we were very lucky to be picked up at Sundance by Joel Silver and Warner Bros."

This sounds pretentious and silly, but I kind of feel this way about the classes I teach.

Men Who Love Lycra - The Daily Beast

Men Who Love Lycra - The Daily Beast: "Most of Dave and Trisha’s private time is spent in Zentai as well. “Making dinner, watching TV, having friends over—we’ll pretty much wear them whenever we’re at home. As soon as we get off the phone with you, we’ll put them back on.” He says their friends don’t even blink. “At first they were like, what the hell is that? Why are you wearing it? But after the first two times they didn’t care anymore. My buddy and I will be playing Xbox, and I’ll be wearing it and he won’t be, and we’re just sitting there killing terrorists.”"

Daring Fireball: Coda

Daring Fireball: Coda: "The appeal of Coda cannot be expressed solely by any comparison of features. The point is not what it does, but how it feels to use it. The essential aspects of Coda aren’t features in its components, but rather the connections between components."

True of so many mac applications. It's the system and interaction that make all the difference, not just the static lists of features.

Soldering The Thinnest Wires Ever Conceived: Headphone Modding � alexwhittemore.com

Soldering The Thinnest Wires Ever Conceived: Headphone Modding � alexwhittemore.com: "My thought was to cut the crappy iPhone buds off their cable (which includes a microphone and remote button) and graft on my beloved FMJs."

Glenn Beck: Reading Between The Coded Lines : NPR

Glenn Beck: Reading Between The Coded Lines : NPR: "In the book Tears of a Clown: Glenn Beck and the Tea Bagging of America, Milbank says that line is a veiled reference to an obscure Mormon prophecy that Latter-day Saints will rescue the country from certain doom. It's known as the White Horse Prophecy."

Prozac for the Planet: an article by Christopher Cokinos | The American Scholar

Prozac for the Planet: an article by Christopher Cokinos | The American Scholar: "In Utah, for example, estimates suggest that climate change will raise average temperatures from between 6.5� and 9.4� F. The American West has experienced warming that is “70 percent greater than the world as a whole,” according to one report, and the Colorado River Basin, of which the San Juan River is a part, “has warmed more than any other region in the contiguous United States.”"

Mind, Soul, and Body

Mind, Soul, and Body: "“We need to speak up, to say boldly why we fight for good schools, why we build houses for the homeless, why we protect open space, why we look after the ailing and the elderly, why we pay taxes without grumbling, why we honor government as a force for public good. In a society obsessed with competition, we need to say why we practice cooperation. In a culture addicted to instant gratification, we need to champion long-term healing and the welfare of coming generations.”

-Scott Russell Sanders"

Mind, Soul, and Body

Mind, Soul, and Body: "“We need to speak up, to say boldly why we fight for good schools, why we build houses for the homeless, why we protect open space, why we look after the ailing and the elderly, why we pay taxes without grumbling, why we honor government as a force for public good. In a society obsessed with competition, we need to say why we practice cooperation. In a culture addicted to instant gratification, we need to champion long-term healing and the welfare of coming generations.”

-Scott Russell Sanders"

The Verge Q A: Punk Pioneer Steve Albini on Music Festivals, The Future of Radio and Why He Wants GQ To Fail: The Q: GQ

The Verge Q A: Punk Pioneer Steve Albini on Music Festivals, The Future of Radio and Why He Wants GQ To Fail: The Q: GQ: "I'm not really interested in participating in mainstream culture. Participating in the mainstream music business is, to me, like getting involved in a racket. There's no way you can get involved in a racket and not someway be filthied by it. You're another catalog item, another name on the list of people who are collaborating with the enemy. But by the same token I don't know what circumstances every other band is in and what they feel forces their hand at some point. I know some bands feel like they have the choice between working with someone at the independent level who they think is inept, or working with someone in the mainstream—who may also be inept, but at the very least may give them some money."

Steve Albini!

Mike DeBonis on Local Politics - Hacker infiltration ends D.C. online voting trial

Mike DeBonis on Local Politics - Hacker infiltration ends D.C. online voting trial: "'The test pilot was apparently attacked successfully shortly after it began by a team of academic experts led by Prof. J. Alex Halderman at the University of Michigan. The attack caused the University of Michigan fight song to be played for test voters when they completed the balloting process.' The group promises '[f]ull details of the hack and its impact on submitted test ballots ... in the coming days.'"

Twitter, Facebook, and social activism : The New Yorker

Twitter, Facebook, and social activism : The New Yorker: "In the Iranian case, meanwhile, the people tweeting about the demonstrations were almost all in the West. “It is time to get Twitter’s role in the events in Iran right,” Golnaz Esfandiari wrote, this past summer, in Foreign Policy. “Simply put: There was no Twitter Revolution inside Iran.”"

One less skill for soldiers to master at boot camp: bayonet training - CSMonitor.com

One less skill for soldiers to master at boot camp: bayonet training - CSMonitor.com: "In 2004, with ammunition running low, a British unit launched a bayonet charge toward a trench outside of Basra, Iraq, where some 100 members of the Mahdi Army militia were staging an attack. The British soldiers later said that though some of the insurgents were wounded in the bayonet charge itself, others were simply terrified into surrender."