Charlie Rose - “dennehy”

Charlie Rose - “dennehy”

Charlie Rose - Arthur Miller

Charlie Rose - Arthur Miller

Watching the Corners: On Future-Proofing Your Passion | 43 Folders

Watching the Corners: On Future-Proofing Your Passion | 43 Folders: "By starting adult life with an autistically explicit “goal” that’s never been tested against any kind of real-world experience or reality-in-context, we can paradoxically miss a thousand more useful, lucrative, or organic opportunities that just…what?…pop up. Often these are one-time chances to do amazing and even unique things—opportunities that many of us continue to reject out of hand because it’s “not what we do.”"

Lower Rectus Abdominis

Lower Rectus Abdominis: "Listed below are exercises that focus on the lower rectus abdominis muscle.

Reverse Crunch

Beginner: Lie on your back with knees pulled into your chest. Hands are behind your head and belly button is pulled in tightly. Exhale and contract your lower abs so that your hips and buns lift off the floor. Inhale as you slowly lower to the starting position."

ATPM 16.05 - Review: TaskPaper

ATPM 16.05 - Review: TaskPaper: "TaskPaper is a magical text editor. It presents a familiar digital blank sheet, as you would see in Microsoft Word or in Apple Pages. You can have multiple documents. The developer lives up to his advertising copy: you just type. Everything you need to do, you can do with the keyboard.

There are four types of items: projects, which end with a colon; tasks, which start with a dash; contexts, which are prefixed with the “@” symbol; and notes, which are everything else (and appear in gray). They are arrayed in an outline hierarchy, so you can nest projects and tasks. That’s it. You can cut and paste, drag and drop, and mark both projects and tasks as done, shown with a strike-through. You can archive done projects and tasks. A menu command sends done items to the archive at the bottom, including children of done items."

Possible alternative to Mobile Org

Springpad: a free app that helps you remember

Springpad: a free app that helps you remember

This looks better than Evernote.

PoIC - a set on Flickr

PoIC - a set on Flickr

Insanely complicated index card organizing system "Piles of Index Cards"

PoIC - a set on Flickr

PoIC - a set on Flickr

Pile of Index Cards

Victory Point Games

Victory Point Games

Rules, etc. for the game Forlorn Hope by Fallout Designer Chris Taylor.

Hello Worg!

Hello Worg! The Org Mode Wiki

Org-Mode: Your Life in Plain Text

Org-Mode: Your Life in Plain Text

Will Zynga Become the Google of Games? - NYTimes.com

Will Zynga Become the Google of Games? - NYTimes.com: "At a recent gathering of media and technology moguls, Jeffrey Katzenberg, the C.E.O. of DreamWorks Animation, was asked what he would do if he were to start his career over. “I said I would like to be Mark Pincus,” he recalled in an interview. “He has nailed the next killer app, the next compelling thing that’s going to happen” in media."

LDS.org - Ensign Article - Divorce

LDS.org - Ensign Article - Divorce: "Richard E. Lucas, “Adaptation and the Set-Point Model of Subjective Well-Being: Does Happiness Change after Major Life Events?” Current Directions in Psychological Science, Apr. 2007, available at www.psychologicalscience.org."

Tenure Protects Freedom and Students' Learning - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com

Tenure Protects Freedom and Students' Learning - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com: "Among the widespread myths about tenure is that it enables faculty members to avoid teaching and pursue their research instead. Yet out of more than 3,500 colleges and universities in the United States, only about 10 percent have significant numbers of faculty members heavily devoted to research. The overwhelming majority of American teachers only teach. Yet they rely on the minority of faculty members doing research to keep disciplines and student textbooks up-to-date. America’s ongoing research thus helps sustain the quality of our teaching."

WikiLeaks and Julian Paul Assange : The New Yorker

WikiLeaks and Julian Paul Assange : The New Yorker: "WikiLeaks is a finalist for a Knight Foundation grant of more than half a million dollars. The intended project would set up a way for sources to pass documents to newspaper reporters securely; WikiLeaks would serve as a kind of numbered Swiss bank account, where information could be anonymously exchanged. (The system would allow the source to impose a deadline on the reporter, after which the document would automatically appear on WikiLeaks.) Assange has been experimenting with other ideas, too."

david foster wallace � Syllabus

david foster wallace � Syllabus

IPad Goes Under The Gauntlet At Universities This Fall | Epicenter�| Wired.com

IPad Goes Under The Gauntlet At Universities This Fall | Epicenter�| Wired.com

I love Ipads, but they are not that great of a collaborative tool and don't manipulate documents with the fluidity of other platforms.

Sen. Sam Ervin, Key Figure In Watergate Probe, Dies

Sen. Sam Ervin, Key Figure In Watergate Probe, Dies: "'If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were in effect breaking into the home of every citizen of the United States,' Ervin said. 'And if these allegations prove to be true, what they were seeking to steal was not the jewels, money or other precious property of American citizens, but something much more valuable - their most precious heritage: the right to vote in a free election.'

He said that Watergate 'for the first time undertook to destroy the integrity of the process' and said its perpetrators showed 'the same mentality as the Gestapo.'"

I find your lack of faith disturbing

I find your lack of faith disturbing: "Says Dorothy Parker in the Norman book: 'I want nothing from Hollywood but money and anyone who tells you that he came here for anything else or tries to make beautiful words out of it lies in the teeth.'"

The Good Machine No-Budget Commandments | Truly Free Film

The Good Machine No-Budget Commandments | Truly Free Film: "1. Write to direct. A screenplay, especially a no-budget screenplay is a very loose blueprint for a film – ultimately every choice you make will compromise something else.

2. Write for what you know and for what you can obtain. This goes for actors, locations, animals, and major propping or set dressing. If your friend owns something, anything, write it into the film."

Whose Literacy Is It Anyway?

Whose Literacy Is It Anyway?: "Writing and Gaming: 'Literacy becomes a hydra-headed sort of thing'

From the very beginning of the FIP sequences, students recognize that they will be composing in a variety of genres and modalities, and that textual literacies, while important, are only a component of studying gaming.� Certainly, students wrote some traditional academic papers.� Dan Frost notes that students early on engaged in two different kinds of writing.� First, they documented and summarized basic principles of game design and how those principles were used in the development of games—a basic kind of analytical writing with a concrete object of study.� But students also spent time writing game design documents, the kind of documents that would be generated in the “pre-implementation” phase of the development of a game that are intended to document progress toward delivery of a collaboratively and iteratively generated product.�"

Whose Literacy Is It Anyway?

Whose Literacy Is It Anyway?: "At the same time, a number of designers and critics of interactive experiences have turned to more sophisticated theories about rhetorical awareness or written expression than Gee’s simple talking points to interpret what they call the complex “operational logics” at work in computer games.� Among those who describe themselves as part of the 'software studies' movement, Ian Bogost was the first literally to write the book on “procedural rhetoric” in Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames, which interrogated some of Gee's assumptions."

Blanding man sentenced in relics case | The Salt Lake Tribune

Blanding man sentenced in relics case | The Salt Lake Tribune: "Indicted along with five co-defendants, Laws is the sixth of 26 Utah, Colorado and New Mexico residents the FBI and U.S. Bureau of Land Management netted in the sting. Two of the defendants committed suicide, as did the civilian undercover operative, Salt Lake County businessman and antiquities dealer Ted Gardiner, who did the buying and selling with the defendants."

WikiAnswers - How do you fix a punctured basketball

WikiAnswers - How do you fix a punctured basketball: "BE VERY CAREFUL HANDLING THE SYRINGE. DO NOT ACCIDENTALLY INJECT YOURSELF OR ANYONE ELSE WITH THE SUPER GLUE AS THE CONSEQUENCES COULD BE LETHAL. IF YOU CHOOSE TO PERFORM THIS OPERATION MAKE SURE YOU DO IT IN THE PRESENCE OF ANOTHER ADULT, AS A PRECAUTIONARY MEASURE, WHO IS IN A POSITION TO FETCH HELP IN CASE OF ANY EMERGENCY."

Digital Domain - Computers at Home - Educational Hope vs. Teenage Reality - NYTimes.com

Digital Domain - Computers at Home - Educational Hope vs. Teenage Reality - NYTimes.com: "Ofer Malamud, an assistant professor of economics at the University of Chicago, is the co-author of a study that investigated educational outcomes after low-income families received vouchers to help them buy computers.

“We found a negative effect on academic achievement,” he said. “I was surprised, but as we presented our findings at various seminars, people in the audience said they weren’t surprised, given their own experiences with their school-age children.”"

The Rock Salt :: WiFi Repeaters :: Anyone have any experience with 'em?

The Rock Salt :: WiFi Repeaters :: Anyone have any experience with 'em?: "With my Linksys router you can assign static IPs to specific MAC addresses, so that it always gives out the same IP to that device. Or on the computer side, you can set your network config to DHCP w/Manual IP and get the same effect.

On a mac, it's in Sys Preferences -> Network -> Airport -> Advanced -> TCP/IP

Though, I kinda doubt it's an IP conflict issue. Routers have hundreds of IPs to choose from and are pretty smart about not trying to assign recently used addresses to new devices. When your device goes to sleep, it's going to request a new IP via DHCP when it awakens."

Intrigue and Ambiguity in Cases of 4 Russians Sent to West in Spy Swap - NYTimes.com

Intrigue and Ambiguity in Cases of 4 Russians Sent to West in Spy Swap - NYTimes.com: "in 2001, confident that his C.I.A. link was unsuspected, Mr. Zaporozhsky was lured back to Moscow by his former colleagues for what they promised would be a festive K.G.B. anniversary party. He was arrested at the airport, convicted of espionage and sentenced to 18 years in prison."

Phys Ed: Your Brain on Exercise - Well Blog - NYTimes.com

Phys Ed: Your Brain on Exercise - Well Blog - NYTimes.com: "Whether exercise directly reduces BMP activity or increases production of Noggin isn’t yet known and may not matter. The results speak for themselves. “If ever exercise enthusiasts wanted a rationale for what they’re doing, this should be it,” Dr. Kessler says. Exercise, he says, through a complex interplay with Noggin and BMP, helps to ensure that neuronal stem cells stay lively and new brain cells are born."

Achilles Tendonitis [Archive] - Seattle Triathlon Club

Achilles Tendonitis [Archive] - Seattle Triathlon Club: "Stair-step heel raises (working the calf); Stand on a stair-step on the balls of your feet, slowly lower heel below step, then raise heel as high as you can.
- Work in entire range of motion of the ankle.
- Use a slow and controlled motion, pausing for 2 seconds at the top and bottom of the motion.
- Start by using both feet at the same time."

Gamasutra - News - In-Depth: Character Creation, Gender And Fallout 3

Gamasutra - News - In-Depth: Character Creation, Gender And Fallout 3: "The thing I admired most about the storytelling in Fallout 3 was the generous way it lets the player decide the pace of the main story, by offering both a clearly demarcated major quest line and a near-inexhaustible supply of subordinate quest material." --by Emily Short

UltRunR - Achilles Tendinitis

UltRunR - Achilles Tendinitis: "There were two 'breakthroughs' in my recovery.

I stopped icing and ibuprofen, and applied a heat pad a couple of times a day. This helped, but the pain still lingered.
Around late February, I followed Karl's advice and took the following supplements: L-lysine, L-glycine, and glucosamine sulfate. I also added a couple of my own, L-carnatine and vitamin E. Within a month I was back to nearly perfect. Now I have no pain at all, and consider it healed."

Ex Fat Loss Fat Loss Maintain
Monday 1840 2299 2874
Tuesday 1840 1840 2299
Wednesday 2208 2759 3448
Thursday 1840 2299 2874
Friday 1840 2069 2586
Saturday 2025 2529 3161
Sunday 1840 2299 2874
*Calorie cycling provides same amount of calories per week, but 'tricks' your body by constantly changing daily calories. This helps to prevent or break plateaus. Guideline only.

Minty Boost! - USB charger for your gadgets

Minty Boost! - USB charger for your gadgets

Coolest kit ever.

In Suburban vs. City Living, the City Costs Less - NYTimes.com

In Suburban vs. City Living, the City Costs Less - NYTimes.com: "So we set out to do the math, based on an apartment and a house in the New York metropolitan area. Here’s what we found: a suburban lifestyle costs about 18 percent more than living in the city. Even a house in the suburbs with a price tag substantially lower than an urban apartment will, on a monthly basis, often cost more to keep running. And then there’s the higher cost of commuting from the suburbs, or the expense of buying a car (or two) and paying the insurance."

William Gibson. Neuromancer

William Gibson. Neuromancer: "A dark wave of rubble rose against a colorless sky, beyond its crest
the bleached, half-melted skeletons of city towers. The rubble wave was
textured like a net, rusting steel rods twisted gracefully as fine string,
vast slabs of concrete still clinging there. The foreground might once have
been a city square; there was a sort of stump, something that suggested a
fountain. At its base, the children and the soldier were frozen. The tableau
was confusing at first. Molly must have read it correctly before Case had
quite assimilated it, because he felt her tense. She spat, then stood.
Children. Feral, in rags. Teeth glittering like knives. Sores on their
contorted faces. The soldier on his back, mouth and throat open to the sky.
They were feeding."

Apple's Crazy Open Letter Doesn't Even Address The Real Issue - Yahoo! Finance

Apple's Crazy Open Letter Doesn't Even Address The Real Issue - Yahoo! Finance: "Their big drop in bars is because their high bars were never real in the first place.
Whoever crafted this train wreck of a sentence is probably going to lose his or her job. Leave aside the fact that this isn't English. Granted that signal strength is often being over reported, why does that particular grip cause the reported signal strength to go down?"

The Associated Press: Prosecutors: NY suspect spilled Russia spy details

The Associated Press: Prosecutors: NY suspect spilled Russia spy details: "Earlier in the day, the lawyer for another suspect, Donald Heathfield, told a judge the case against his client was 'extremely thin.'
'It essentially suggests that they successfully infiltrated neighborhoods, cocktail parties and the PTA,' attorney Peter Krupp said."

The Associated Press: Prosecutors: NY suspect spilled Russia spy details

The Associated Press: Prosecutors: NY suspect spilled Russia spy details: "Their cover was so deep, 'there is no inkling at all that their children who they live with have any idea their parents are Russian agents,' Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Farbiarz told U.S. Magistrate Judge Ronald L. Ellis."

The “Thriller” Diaries | Vanity Fair

The “Thriller” Diaries | Vanity Fair: "About two weeks before the premiere, Jackson called Branca and, hyperventilating and speaking in a halting voice, ordered him to destroy the negative of “Thriller.” After much cajoling he revealed the reason for his decision. “He said the Jehovah’s Witnesses heard he was doing a werewolf video,” Branca recalls. “They told him that it promoted demonology and they were going to excommunicate him.” Branca conferred with Folsey and Landis, and all agreed that the “Thriller” negative had to be safeguarded. Landis immediately removed the film canisters from the lab and delivered them to Branca’s office, where they were locked up."

William Gibson

William Gibson: "Q I'm picking up on a thread that seems to pervade several of your previous responses, in so much as your writing gift comes at a heavy price. It's almost a suffering ...something you can't and wouldn't want to live without, yet a beast that requires a great deal of time and effort to harness? A living hell for the duration of the work, no?

A Yikes! I must've sounded awfully whiny. Nothing quite as dramatic as that. Every job has its costs, some of which aren't so evident to people who haven't done it. But my intention was more to convey, to people who might want to write fiction, that the process they arrive at may not quite line up with our cultural paradigm of what writing fiction is, and that the blisters may form in places other than expected. When I started trying to write fiction, I read writers-on-writing collections, and very little of that, in retrospect, sounded much like what I've wound up having to do to make it happen.

When Bruce Sterling and I were writing The Difference Engine, I'd moan sometimes about the labor required (as much fun as that was, and often it was lots of fun, but I'm basically lazy). He always had the same response: 'Yeah, but it beats loading concrete blocks.' Which is so obviously true, and has since become a mantra of mine.

I don't always like writing, but I very much like having written."

William Gibson

William Gibson: "Then Bruce Sterling's father gave him an Apple II. I guess he'd moved up to the first Mac. So there's Bruce on the phone from Austin: 'This is *serious*, man. This thing *automates* the process.' So I went down to Eaton's and bought a IIC and a dot-matrix printer, marked way down because the new Mac was the thing. So I never got the Selectric that had been the pro writer's awesomest tool when I'd started trying to write. I saw one of those for $29.95 in a charity shop, last year."