Month: November 2014
November 12, 2014
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Robots today, humans tomorrow!
RT @KSpeicher: @kenschafer That’s today, but tomorrow, you’re gonna be epic!
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I am thankful though that there isn’t a live video feed of me staring at MY computer:
http://new.livestream.com/ESA/cometlanding
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Nothing I might do today will be nearly as hard or important as those who are landing a billion dollar robot on a comet.
November 11, 2014
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ht to @jots for pointing that out.
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The cliche-ridden Twitter account known as @therealbanksy is not the real Banksy.
I am Banksy.
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We’re landing a robot on a freakin’ comet tomorrow! A comet!
Humans FTW!
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2014/11051415-philae-landing-preview.html
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November 10, 2014
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Thrilled to see Pres. Obama support Net Neutrality and the Internet as a utility.
Make this happen America!
http://www.whitehouse.gov/net-neutrality
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And by Eastbound, I do of course mean Westbound.
RT @kenschafer: Dead eastbound 504 streetcar at Portland.
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Dead eastbound 504 streetcar at Portland.
November 9, 2014
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The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food – NYTimes.com
Grant Cornett for The New York Times On the evening of April 8, 1999, a long line of Town Cars and taxis pulled up to the Minneapolis headquarters of Pillsbury and discharged 11 men who controlled America’s largest food companies. Nestlé was in attendance, as were Kraft and Nabisco, General Mills…
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Floating in a Most Familiar Way: 21 Notes About Sci-Fi After ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’:
http://ift.tt/1vOygLr
pic.twitter.com/ezwEVFMNok
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All tweets somehow reference @GreatDismal
MT @JamesGleick: Why don’t publishers put care into ebook hyphenation? pic.twitter.com/2Gh1cYCFPP
November 6, 2014
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On Being Good: the Secular Virtues – Alain de Botton
Once we’re over about 12 years old, we’re seldom encouraged to be nice. We’re expected to make efforts in all kinds of areas (chiefly around work), but the idea of expending energy thinking about, and then practicing the art of kindness sounds bizarre, even eerie. The notion of trying to be a ‘good…
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Nailed it!
RT @WIRED: History’s most hilarious misconceptions about the elephant
http://wrd.cm/1vLz0RI
pic.twitter.com/4DuUPcGd5R
November 5, 2014
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Note To Self: You are not required to have or share an opinion on everything.
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November 4, 2014
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#TBT Turtle Bra Tuesday pic.twitter.com/oyCc41c7WY
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I’m just going to leave the Typeform home page up on my screen all day thanks.
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Why yes as a matter of fact, I do. pic.twitter.com/wGMi64lCSN
November 3, 2014
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Be Unapologetically Focused: Why Having a Great Strategy Matters
Leadership Focusing Four questions to make sure we’re focused in a resource-constrained world. 0 We will never have enough time or resources to solve all the problems we want to solve. To be successful, we need to focus, and that’s why great organizations have strategies. S trategy is a chronically…
November 2, 2014
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William DeVaughn’s “Be Thankful For What You’ve Got” is just about perfect.
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Soon we’ll inject product placement into songs.
♫ “Bye bye, Miss Eskimo Pie, drove my Tesla to the levee but the levee was dry.” ♫
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Old music videos to be injected with new product placements.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/universal-to-give-music-videos-retrospective-product-placement-by-superimposing-brands-9761678.html
November 1, 2014
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True Fact: Orlando’s Amway Center makes most of its money by getting other smaller arenas to also become Amway Centers.
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In 1985 we all focussed on the JAMC’s at the time radical use of distortion.
But in 2014 all you hear is the eighties pop underpinnings.
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“Just Like Honey” sounded SO unique when released. Now it sounds like a John Hughes’ soundtrack cut: