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Latte Training [Flickr]

2012-05-26T13:30:31-07:00

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Simple Pleasures [Flickr]

2012-05-21T16:55:19-07:00

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The Avengers [Flickr]

2012-05-20T15:21:09-07:00

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The Indians (sic) Called It Maize [Flickr]

2012-05-09T17:44:31-07:00

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Sen Bernie Sanders Amazing Speech!

2010-12-04T13:09:00.000-05:00

Unsuck It

2010-08-28T09:41:00.001-05:00

For all those suffering from corporate-speak:

Creative (n.), Creatives

from Unsuck It

I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts

2010-08-07T08:06:00.001-05:00

Let the Games Begin

2010-06-11T05:48:00.002-05:00

“It’s better to lose with your own vision than win with someone else’s.”

Johan Cruyff

The Cruyff Turn on Wikipedia

from the BBC: The story of the 1974 World Cup

Elements of Style? Discuss.

2010-06-09T10:55:00.001-05:00

Which would you rather read:
Book A is about how to write.
Book B is about how Book A came to be written.

Book A		Book B

(And, can you judge a book by its cover? Absolutely!)

The Elements of Style is a book I reread frequently. And not randomly either; I read it as if it were a novel. I haven’t read Stylized yet; but I will (eventually).

Changing Direction

2010-06-02T15:31:00.001-05:00

“It started on a tablet first. I had this idea about having a glass display, a multitouch display you could type on. I asked our people about it. And six months later they came back with this amazing display. And I gave it to one of our really brilliant UI guys. He then got inertial scrolling working and some other things, and I thought, ‘My god, we can build a phone with this,’ and we put the tablet aside, and we went to work on the phone.”

from Steve Jobs at the D8 conference

Don’t I Know It

2010-06-01T21:15:00.001-05:00

from Sarah May Wilkinson’s Facebook

Maplewood Back in the Day

2010-05-27T13:02:00.001-05:00

from the James Betelle website
“I recently acquired a 20 minute reel of 16mm silent color home movies, shot in Maplewood, New Jersey, in the 1950s-60s.”

That’s What I Said!

2010-05-25T11:37:00.000-05:00

“Hey man to tonight.”

Quitting Made Easy

2010-05-13T12:22:00.001-05:00

from iQuit

The Soul of a Real Baker

2010-05-06T09:06:00.000-05:00

“Julie, a Maplewood mother of two, has the soul of a real baker.”

from The Local – Maplewood Blog - NYTimes.com

Oil in the Gulf

2010-05-01T08:50:00.001-05:00

Maybe it’s time to get the Prius.

from The New York Times

Avoid Contact with Aliens

2010-04-25T14:22:00.001-05:00

According to Stephen Hawking:

Rather than actively trying to communicate with extra-terrestrials, humans should do everything possible to avoid contact.

“We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet.”

from BBC News

Create or Be Part of the “Amorphous Blob”

2010-04-16T17:32:00.001-05:00

“Creativity requires a mind, and a herd has none.”

and this:

“I loathe Apple products, and chafe under the straightjacket of their aesthetic whenever I use one. I simply happen to despise their competition that much more. At least Apple has an aesthetic. Its works, however flawed, are the works of a person, rather than an amorphous blob.”

from Stanislav Datskovskiy

Buttons!

2010-04-13T13:50:00.000-05:00

Yowza! Can’t wait to see what I get.

He Hates Schoolwork but He’s a Good Speller

2010-03-30T16:50:00.002-05:00

heavy, leave, & third
(must-knows for second-graders)
Spelling test Thursday.

‘I don’t have time for’ (you)

2010-03-22T08:35:00.001-05:00

“For most Americans it seems most of our time savings goes straight into watching television. That’s where all the time savings we think we get actually goes....
The phrase ‘I don’t have time for’ should never be said. We all get the same amount of time every day....
On the other hand, people who truly have control over time have some in their pocket to give to someone in need.”

from The Cult of Busy on Scott Berkun’s blog

(via Marco.org)

I Couldn’t Agree More

2010-03-21T12:39:00.002-05:00

“We have finally joined civilization.”
from George Vescey

Red Bull Arena, Harrison, New Jersey
Originally uploaded by jag9889

Best Political Attack Ad Ever

2010-03-18T11:12:00.001-05:00

Scottish Meats - Kearny, NJ

2010-03-02T14:29:00.003-05:00

Scottish Meats - Kearny, NJ
Originally uploaded by joe waks

Walmart is incapable of making a sign this cool.

from Jersey artist Joe Waks whose website is definitely worth a visit.

One Way to Put an End to the Hating

2010-02-20T12:09:00.003-05:00

“[I]n the U.K....his show has run ad-less for the last six consecutive days.”

Stop Glenn Beck

I originally heard about this here: Color of Change and here: Adbusters.

A Better Way to Educate

2010-02-07T18:25:00.000-05:00

“From my visit today,” he said, “it is clear to me that the children at the Meadow school benefit from a very nurturing environment, and while the education is based on alternative principles, they also end up with an impressive record of literacy and numeracy. This is just the kind of environment and parental interaction that we should be encouraging.”

from The Guardian

“Early childhood learning is largely experiential, imitative and sensory-based. The education emphasizes learning through practical activities.”

“Elementary school years (age 7-14), learning is regarded as artistic and imaginative. In these years, the approach emphasizes developing children's emotional life and artistic expression across a wide variety of performing and visual arts.”

“During adolescence, to meet the developing capacity for abstract thought and conceptual judgment the emphasis is on developing intellectual understanding and ethical ideals such as social responsibility.”

from Wikipedia entry on Waldorf education

Wonder what Dr. Kevorkian Would Say

2010-02-03T17:44:00.003-05:00

Apparently, people in vegetative states—people often taken off life support—can understand questions and can try to answer.

With one patient - a Belgian man injured in a traffic accident seven years ago - they asked a series of questions.
He was able to communicate “yes” and “no” using just his thoughts.
The team told him to use “motor” imagery like a tennis match to indicate “yes” and “spatial” imagery like thinking about roaming the streets for a “no”.
The patient responded accurately to five out of six autobiographical questions posed by the scientists.
For example, he confirmed that his father’s name was Alexander.

Fascinating.
from Vegetative state patients can respond to questions on the BBC

My Thoughts Exactly

2009-12-31T12:29:00.001-05:00

Bruce Schneier on Aviation Security ★
“Bruce Schneier:
‘Despite fearful rhetoric to the contrary, terrorism is not a transcendent threat. A terrorist attack cannot possibly destroy a country’s way of life; it’s only our reaction to that attack that can do that kind of damage. The more we undermine our own laws, the more we convert our buildings into fortresses, the more we reduce the freedoms and liberties at the foundation of our societies, the more we’re doing the terrorists’ job for them.’

My thoughts exactly.”

from Daring Fireball

The Space: Get in it.

2009-12-03T14:40:00.001-05:00

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
Viktor Frankl

This space is where we get to choose the action (the karma) that creates the experiences we will have in the future. Choose wisely.

(Thanks to Cory Booker for originally posting this quote on Facebook.)