Radio, Radio
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Friday, April 17, 2009
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Gravitas Off
| The Colbert Report | Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c | |||
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| The Colbert Report | Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c | |||
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Monday, April 13, 2009
Friday, April 10, 2009
Dialing For Derivatives
from The New York Times:
Thank you for calling BadBank, otherwise known as “Slumdog Billionaire.” This call will not be monitored for quality control.
written by Rick Moranis
Published January 31, 2009
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Why Do We Have A Fed?
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | M - Th 11p / 10c | |||
| Alan Greenspan | ||||
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I was recently rereading "The Revolution", by Ron Paul, and it mentions this Jon Stewart interview with former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. What makes Stewart so compelling, is that he asks the questions that no one in the mainstream media does. Here, he asks Greenspan, "why do we have a Fed?" Greenspan sputters around a bit, and then bums Jon out with his thesis on human nature.
Where The Wild Things Are
In theaters: October 16, 2009
visit the official website
view the official trailer
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
The Need For Speed
from Lifehack.org
It’s impossible to read everything ever written, but the number of words we’re expected to take in keep going up just the same. That means that speed reading is a pretty good tool to have in your personal arsenal.
It’s also worth considering that different approaches to reading have both benefits and drawbacks. In general, the methods that allow a person to read faster don’t always provide for the same level of comprehension that slower reading allows.
No matter what approach a particular speed reading system takes, most start with eliminating bad reading practices and then accelerating reading speed through a series of exercises. Bad reading habits can include:
* Sounding out word out loud as one reads — or subvocalizing
* Re-scanning over passages already read
* Moving one’s eyes across the page as one reads
* Using one reading speed for all reading material
Subvocalization is often considered the biggest barrier to speed reading. Because of the way that reading is taught in most schools — students learn to sound out letters rather than recognize whole words — most readers automatically sound out words, especially those that aren’t in their normal reading vocabulary. Subvocalization, no matter its value for initially learning to read, slows down most readers. That’s because saying a word, whether aloud or subvocally, takes more time than recognizing a word.
A few free speed reading resources include:
* Wikibooks’ Speed reading textbook
* How do you become a better reader? (includes several guides)
* The SQ3R Reading Method
Monday, April 6, 2009
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Inbox Zero
Acheive Inbox Zero. It will change your life.
"These are posts from a special 43 Folders series looking at the skills, tools, and attitude needed to empty your email inbox — and then keep it that way."
"Clearly, the problem of email overload is taking a toll on all our time, productivity, and sanity, mainly because most of us lack a cohesive system for processing our messages and converting them into appropriate actions as quickly as possible.”
Delete.
Delegate.
Respond.
Defer.
Do.
from 43 folders
Pearls Before Breakfast
Joshua Bell is one of the world's greatest violinists. His instrument of choice is a multimillion-dollar Stradivarius. If he played it for spare change, incognito, outside a bustling Metro stop in Washington, would anyone notice?
read from The Washington Post:
Pearls Before Breakfast
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Friday, April 3, 2009
Obama Depressed, Distant Since 'Battlestar Galactica' Series Finale
Death & Taxes
From BoingBoing:
Jess Bachman creates very large posters that graphically display exactly where American tax dollars go. When you're dealing with sets of information this massive and abstract, presenting that data in a way someone can make their way through without feeling overwhelmed is a big design challenge, and Jess nailed it.
This is a true store of indie, DIY success. Here's a snippet of a letter written by Jess:
You see I created that poster in 2004 on a lark, never intending publicity or financial gain. You picked up on it two years later and the people loved it. I sold a bunch of prints and realized how important this information is, and how uninformed we are as citizens about our taxes. The boingboing post prompted me to create another poster for the year 2007.
That was such a big hit that I was able to quit my job working as an industrial sewing machine operator. As a full time (well, almost full time) budget poster maker, I was able to develop the 2008 version of the poster along with the website TheBudgetGraph.com which has had over 1/2 million visits. Sales from the poster now support me and my family, and I have sold thousands of posters to schools and concerned citizens, even 40 members of congress. I have been in magazines, art galleries, and national television. Last month I was on the Martha Stewart Show to talk about the poster and taxes, it was surreal.
Enjoy the Death & Taxes poster, and spread the word.
wallstats.com
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Born In Ohio
Stephen Colbert's question to Ohio Representative Stephanie Tubbs Jones: "Twenty-two astronauts were born in Ohio. What is it about your state that makes people want to flee the earth?"
Not All Dogs Go To Heaven
Not All Dogs Go To Heaven
Family Guy
Season 7 : Ep. 11
Stewie transports the cast of “Star Trek: The Next Generation” to his bedroom.
Guilt
From their website:
Joe Scoresone and Alice Drueding have been making posters together since 1986. Their work has appeared in many international publications and exhibitions, has received numerous awards, and is in a number of permanent collections around the world.
These posters are dark. Their subject matter ranges from the political (Alternatives To War, Ethnic Cleanser), to the spiritual (Confess, Sin, Guilt), to the emotional (Doubt, Fear, Stress).
sdposters.com
Monday, March 30, 2009
Today in History March 30, 1858
I tell my students all the time, "the reason God placed an eraser on the end of your pencil is so that you can correct your mistakes."
The graphite pencil is first developed sometime in the mid to late 1500s. (Its first known literary appearance is in a 1565 treatise on fossils by German-Swiss naturalist Konrad Gesner, who touts the convenience of this new-fangled writing implement.) Graphite pencils are soon realized to be a convenient alternative to pen and ink, and devices to cleanly hold raw graphite are devised and evolve and by the end of the 17th century. Pencils begin to resemble the supply room staple we recognize today: a rod of graphite encased in a piece of wood. However, it is Hymen Lipman of Philadelphia who has the idea of attaching a piece of rubber inside one end of the pencil. On this day in 1858, Lipman is issued a patent for marrying the pencil to the eraser.
Unfortunately for Lipman, the patent would later be revoked, when the U.S. Supreme Court rules in 1875 that a pencil with an eraser is just a pencil with an eraser and not a new invention.
from Smithsonian.com
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Composition
From Merlin Mann at 43 Folders: Michael Bierut has used 85 notebooks in the past 26 years. Impressive.
Stop Paying Attention
Lucy Knisley is an artist, illustrator, cartoonist, songwriter, and blogger with an unconventional and cool website. I'm inspired to open up Dreamweaver for the first time in a long time.
Monday, March 23, 2009
Ice Removal Procedures
My brother works for the Department of Transportation in New York, where they have been hit by a particularly harsh and snowy winter this year. He sent me this photo a few weeks back.
"Us New Yorkers have the ability to 'think outta the box' in order to get things done. Note the new & improved ice removal techniques."
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Sugar Coated Bullets 2.0
Welcome to the next generation: Sugar Coated Bullets 2.0.
The term "Web 2.0" refers to a perceived second generation of web development and design, that aims to facilitate communication, secure information sharing, interoperability, and collaboration on the World Wide Web. The new mission statement of this blog is a selfish one, but also one that I feel will be useful, interesting, and entertaining.1
The purpose of this blog will be to catalog, organize, share and create. One of the great advantages of blogging, is tagging. This allows data to exist in several places at once. It is much better than placing files in folders.
For example, if I wrote a paper for college, I might save it in a folder called, "college". Wouldn't it be better if I could tag that file, "college, politics 101, democracy, research, and writing"? Now I can find that file under five different directories simultaneously. After a while, all of your data is grouped together in a tangled web that allows like content to be stored with similar, related content.
All tags and labels on this page will be content oriented, containing either a subject or a verb, such as: create, or music.
The content of this blog will be original, derivative, or linked and credited. It will consist of writing, reading, music, images, web and video. The content will be a record of my own works and the ones that I observe, like, and wish to share.
I'm looking forward to improving.
1. from Wikipedia
Saturday, February 28, 2009
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