The Telling Compulsion

Glenn Beck Rally Attendee Exposed The Young Turks

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:55:03 -0700

"As with so many of the tea partiers, the impression I get is that they are inspired and energized by..."

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:54:27 -0700

“As with so many of the tea partiers, the impression I get is that they are inspired and energized by the solidarity they feel with others there as much as anything else. They are searching for fellowship and meaning beyond the normal religious and political realm. (In some ways they remind me of the fervent Obama followers of the summer of 2008.) And let’s face it, what she says about the two party’s failing and political corruption could have been said by any one of us. The problem is that the ties that bind her to her fellows are toxic know-nothingism and reflexive tribal identity based upon race, religion and fear and loathing of those who would stake an equal claim to America.”

- DIgby

Some days, seems like everybody’s wearing these. Also,...

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:01:50 -0700

Some days, seems like everybody’s wearing these.

Also, look at this fucking cast!

"You acknowledge that Software is not designed, licensed or intended for use in the design,..."

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 07:13:35 -0700

“You acknowledge that Software
is not designed, licensed or intended for use in
the design, construction, operation or maintenance
of any nuclear facility.”

- License Agreement for Java Message Service (JMS) API Documentation 1.1 Final Release

Glad we’re clear on that.

Vincent Van Gogh Carpenter, 1880 and Woman Mourning, 1882 The...

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:10:13 -0700

Vincent Van Gogh Carpenter, 1880 and Woman Mourning, 1882

The first step is to start.

Chamber Pop, iTunes?!? They’re really going for baroque...

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:53:45 -0700

Chamber Pop, iTunes?!?

They’re really going for baroque with the crappy puns. I bet Ezra Koenig is pissed.

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once..."

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 01:17:13 -0700

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”

- Epicurus

itsfullofstars: Timelapse video of the Perseid Meteor Shower...

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 22:08:30 -0700

itsfullofstars:

Timelapse video of the Perseid Meteor Shower and the galactic core of the Milky Way as seen from Joshua Tree National Park. These were taken between August 12 and August 15, 2010. Music is Samskeyti by Sigur Ros.

By Henry Jun Wah Lee.

The Eight Great Goods: How We Mind Ourselves

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:15:47 -0700

The Eight Great Goods: How We Mind Ourselves:

I am going to assert that there are Eight Great Goods in the world, which help conceptualise our choices and determine our actions or inactions. Because we array our decision-making “bins” as some arrangement of these eight, most of the major decisions we make will fall into one of these categories. Here is a brief introduction to the Eight Great Goods – in roughly the order most people in the world see those around them prioritising the eight. They are:

Life (health, nutrition, having children, nature, staying alive);
Growth (economic success, material well-being, gainful employment);
Society (social relations, nation, community, workplace, family, friends);
Stability (routine, safety, rule of law, predictability);
Joy (entertainment, sports, fun, beauty, amusement, learning);
Belief (religion, spirituality, higher power);
Individuality (privacy, recognition, ownership, voice, dignity); and
Fairness (rights, equality, sharing).

The Genesis of Ethernet MAY 22, 1973TO: ALTO ALOHA...

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:00:00 -0700

The Genesis of Ethernet

MAY 22, 1973

TO: ALTO ALOHA DISTRIUBTION
FROM: BOB METCALFE
SUBJECT: ETHER ACQUISITION

HERE IS SOME ROUGH STUFF ON THE ALTO ALOHA NETWORK.

Six Keys to Being Excellent at Anything - Harvard Business Review

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:30:00 -0700

Six Keys to Being Excellent at Anything - Harvard Business Review:

Pursue what you love. Passion is an incredible motivator. It fuels focus, resilience, and perseverance.
Do the hardest work first. We all move instinctively toward pleasure and away from pain. Most great performers, Ericsson and others have found, delay gratification and take on the difficult work of practice in the mornings, before they do anything else. That’s when most of us have the most energy and the fewest distractions.
Practice intensely, without interruption for short periods of no longer than 90 minutes and then take a break. Ninety minutes appears to be the maximum amount of time that we can bring the highest level of focus to any given activity. The evidence is equally strong that great performers practice no more than 4 ½ hours a day.
Seek expert feedback, in intermittent doses. The simpler and more precise the feedback, the more equipped you are to make adjustments. Too much feedback, too continuously, however, can create cognitive overload, increase anxiety, and interfere with learning.
Take regular renewal breaks. Relaxing after intense effort not only provides an opportunity to rejuvenate, but also to metabolize and embed learning. It’s also during rest that the right hemisphere becomes more dominant, which can lead to creative breakthroughs.
Ritualize practice. Will and discipline are wildly overrated. As the researcher Roy Baumeister has found, none of us have very much of it. The best way to insure you’ll take on difficult tasks is to ritualize them — build specific, inviolable times at which you do them, so that over time you do them without having to squander energy thinking about them.

southpol: technipol: What is this, some sort of sharia math?

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:38:27 -0700

southpol:

technipol:

What is this, some sort of sharia math?

"I notice that even the choice of the name Cordoba has offended some Christian opponents of the..."

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:38:49 -0700

“I notice that even the choice of the name Cordoba has offended some Christian opponents of the scheme. This wonderful city in Andalusia, after the Muslim conquest of southern Spain, was indeed one of the centers of the lost Islamic caliphate that today’s jihadists have sworn in blood to restore. And after the Catholic reconquista, it was also one of the places purged of all Arab and Jewish influence by the founders of the Inquisition. But in the interval between these two imperialisms it was also the site of an astonishing cultural synthesis, best associated with the names of Averroes ibn-Rushd and Moses Maimonides. Here was a flourishing of philosophy and medicine and architecture that saw, among other things, the recovery of the works of Aristotle. We need not automatically assume the good faith of those who have borrowed this noble name for a project in lower Manhattan. One would want assurances, also, about the transparency of its funding and the content of its educational programs. But the way to respond to such overtures is by critical scrutiny and engagement, not cheap appeals to parochialism, victimology, and unreason.”

- Christopher Hitchens:
The dispute over the “Ground Zero mosque” is an object lesson in how not to resist intolerance.

hoodinternetBUN B vs THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:34:26 -0700

hoodinternet
BUN B vs THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS

Poignant metameme is poignant. Also, love Scala and Kolacny.

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:49:47 -0700

Poignant metameme is poignant.

Also, love Scala and Kolacny.

True love will find you in the end.

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 00:13:21 -0700

True love will find you in the end.

BBC: A "galactic lens" has revealed that the Universe will probably expand forever

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 00:12:10 -0700

BBC: A "galactic lens" has revealed that the Universe will probably expand forever:

itsfullofstars:

kateoplis:

Knowing the distribution of dark energy tells astronomers that the Universe will continue to get bigger indefinitely. Eventually it will become a cold, dead wasteland with a temperature approaching what scientists term “absolute zero”. Professor Priyamvada Natarajan of Yale University, a leading cosmologist and co-author of this study, said that the findings finally proved “exactly what the fate of the Universe will be”.

“Finally” is an awfully strong word. “Proved”, too.

But… dang.

Bieber Rós (Justin Bieber slowed down by 8x == Sigur Rós) [mp3]

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:38:47 -0700

Bieber Rós

(Justin Bieber slowed down by 8x == Sigur Rós)

[mp3]

"We do apologize for the inconvenience but the Mac Support Team doesn’t support through email."

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:08:56 -0700

“We do apologize for the inconvenience but the Mac Support Team doesn’t support through email.”

- Logitech “technical” “support”

1906 SF Earthquake Aftermath Looking Glass Photo scanned glass...

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:00:00 -0700

1906 SF Earthquake Aftermath

Looking Glass Photo scanned glass negatives a customer had found in their attic, and was permitted to post eight of them to Flickr.