February 2010
WatchThe Maya Classic Rally is a 21 day adventure traversing seven amazing countries in Central America taking the participants from Mexico City to Veracruz in Mexico.
January 2010
"Digital Nation": What has the Internet done to... →
Let’s see, so the digital revolution led us all to this: a gigantic, commercial, high school reunion/mall filthy with insipid tabloid trivia, populated by perpetually distracted, texting, tweeting demi-humans. Yes, the information age truly is every bit as glorious and special as everyone predicted it would be!
“Mr. Zinn was chagrined by the present state of affairs, but undaunted. “If there...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - A Radical Treasure - NYTimes.com (via jellybeanboom)
“There is a marvelous peace in not publishing,” J.D. Salinger told The New...”
– What’s in J.D. Salinger’s safe? | recordonline.com
Drucker on Apple - Khuram Malik
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Again and again in business history, an unknown company has come from nowhere and in a few short years overtaken the established leaders without apparently even breathing hard. The explanation always given is superior strategy, superior technology, superior marketing, or lean manufacturing. But in every single case, the newcomer also enjoys a tremendous cost advantage, usually about 30 percent....
Why Ostriches Can't Fly | LiveScience →
As the Age of Dinosaurs came to an end, some flying birds swooped in and took up the newly available niches, foraging on the ground, growing larger over the generations, and eventually losing the ability to fly. So suggests new research into the DNA of the birds.
“average citizens in wealthy countries no longer want to outsource doing good to...”
– Jeb, Why We’re In the Age of the Citizen Philanthropist
“I love to write and I assure you I write regularly,” Salinger said in a...”
– ‘Catcher in the Rye’ author J.D. Salinger dies
America's Vanishing Silent Spaces - Newsweek.com →
the complete absence of all audible mechanical vibrations, leaving only the sounds of nature at her most natural. Silence is the presence of everything, undisturbed.
How Cyber War is Heating Up | h+ Magazine →
According to DARPA, the NCR will “realistically replicate human behavior and frailties,” and provide “realistic, sophisticated, nation-state quality offensive and defensive opposition forces.”
Aliens can't hear us, says astronomer | Science |... →
“The trouble is that we are making ourselves more and more difficult to be heard,” said Dr Drake. “We are broadcasting in much more efficient ways today and are making our signals fainter and fainter.”
“The iPad’s unprecedented use of DRM to control all capabilities of a...”
– iPad DRM endangers our rights | DefectiveByDesign.org
Watchcheck this out Geoff.
The 3 Facebook Settings Every User Should Check... →
you may now be surprised to find that you inadvertently gave Facebook the right to publicize your private information including status updates, photos, and shared links. Want to change things back? Read on to find out how.
