As I was considering the categories I wanted to assign to my previous post, I noticed one of my tags was interesting.
As if, in any sense of the meaning of interesting, I’d consider any post of my own on this blog uninteresting. It’s not a stretch of the imagination to assume that whatever I decide [...]
Found this on fig crumbs. By Lenka Clayton and James Price.
Warren Ellis recounts the difficulty of shaking many hands in a short period of time.
When I graduated from the University of Washington, I walked across the stage and shook the hand of the President of the University. He winced as I shook, and I thought to myself, “Wow, do I have a booger hanging out [...]
I’m a big fan of Bruce Sterling, not only as a sf writer but also as a design thinker. He’s good at distilling a lot of seemingly-disparate information into consumable bits and then mixing those up into some very interesting ideas.
Bruce Sterling from Innovationsforum on Vimeo.
Puzzle Quest is a fun game. If you haven’t yet played it, you should. It’s quite a simple game on the surface, but gets much deeper as you continue playing and gaining skills. Where the game gets even better is in how you choose to utilize your skills (including which skills you bring to battle) [...]
Although it’s more than six months old, I ran across this video today.
I had the good fortune to know Charles Mudede when I lived in Seattle. I met him through mutual friends, and we even read a couple books in the same reading group. He’s an incredibly smart man, and I look forward to seeing [...]
Peter Watts‘ latest book messed with my head.
We, as a species, can communicate. But what is it that we are communicating?
And only my MTV. Why can’t I get it?
Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution seems to have a good idea why.
More plausibly, price discrimination is at work. Consider a simple example with two individuals. John values Disney at $100 a year and FoxNews at $10 a year; Sally has the reverse valuations. Without bundling, the cable [...]