January 2012
7 posts
Watch(via Alain de Botton: Atheism 2.0 | Video on TED.com) Alain de Botton kills it in another great TED talk, this time on the religious practices that should be adopted by atheists while maintaining their non-belief.
The Rise of the New Groupthink - NYTimes.com →
NYT op-ed on the pitfalls of collaborative work
December 2011
11 posts
Chrome 15 Becomes World's Most Popular Browser →
Slice - automatic package tracking →
Just signed up for Slice and I already love it. Automatically scans your inbox for shipping emails, then can send push alerts to your phone when packages ship or are delivered. Can even alert you to price drops that happen after your purchase within the amount of time when you can claim a refund. Best part: automatic email import means zero effort on your part.
Unfortunately, the reason I...
A few favorites of the moment
Listening: Neon Indian - Era Extraña Jeff Buckley - Grace Phantogram - Nightlife Marc Maron’s WTF podcast
Tools: Sparrow (for Gmail) Trello (for organizing) Shufflr.fm (for listening)
November 2011
4 posts
listening to "Phantogram - 16 Years" →
playing this almost hourly
Walking through doorways causes forgetting, new... →
“Entering or exiting through a doorway serves as an ‘event boundary’ in the mind, which separates episodes of activity and files them away,” Professor Gabriel Radvansky explains.
October 2011
4 posts
OWS's Beef: Wall Street Isn't Winning – It's... →
Another great article by Matt Taibbi on how Wall Street gets socialism, the rest of us get the free market.
"The Internet has become a primary form of... →
Paper by Betsy Sparrow, Jenny Liu, and Daniel M. Wegner claims that “The results of four studies suggest that when faced with difficult questions, people are primed to think about computers and that when people expect to have future access to information, they have lower rates of recall of the information itself and enhanced recall instead for where to access it. The Internet has become a...
Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP... →
Best article out there on today’s GOP, written by one of their own.
September 2011
2 posts
“James Horstman
Beverages Brewed, Horses Shoed, Losers Booed, Babies Cooed,...”
– My dad’s most recent email signature
July 2011
2 posts
“[Carl Braun’s] rule for all the Braun Company’s communications was called...”
– Great thinking from Carl Braun, via Charles Munger
June 2011
3 posts
Blabla →
A really fun interactive animation by Vincent Morisset. Worth at least a 30s look.
April 2011
8 posts
“A well-stated problem is more than half solved.”
– neurologist and psychiatrist Viktor Frankl
March 2011
2 posts
February 2011
6 posts
WatchUpdated video of Mario Boo ghost drawn in real space, by me & Nisha Kurani
WatchMario Boo ghost projected in real space, by me & Nisha Kurani
January 2011
7 posts
