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Design Coding: Design, SEO, rap. What more could you ask for?

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:34:21 -0400

Design Coding: Design, SEO, rap. What more could you ask for?

More Wine Please

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:30:16 -0400

More Wine Please: Resveratrol, an anti-oxidant found in red wine and grape skins, targets and induces cancer cell death by crippling the cell’s mitochondria. What’s interesting is that the anti-oxidant only targets the cancerous cells and protects the healthy cells instead.

Is Your Boss a Psychopath?

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:28:09 -0400

Is Your Boss a Psychopath?: I stumbled onto this excellent article on Fast Company’s website which details some the psychopathic tendencies of people in the workplace and the effect a psychopath has on a company.

"Here’s the math as I see it for brand Hillary: The only chance she has to win is to burn down..."

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 19:00:51 -0400

“Here’s the math as I see it for brand Hillary: The only chance she has to win is to burn down other brands, violate protocol, push harder than many think appropriate. She has to change her brand to achieve her goal. Not only that, but she has to risk the entire Party at the same time. If she does manage to win the nomination, she will be pilloried by the right (the very same Rush that endorsed her in Texas). They’re just waiting for the chance.”

- Seth Godin: Sunk costs, quitting and the value of your brand

"We’ve got to get off oil."

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:02:28 -0500

“We’ve got to get off oil.”

- President Bush at the Irony Conference. (the International Renewable Energy Conference today in DC) (via dihard)

About a decade too late… but that’s Bush’s MO I suppose.

Lost: The Time-Loop Theory

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:41:13 -0500

Lost: The Time-Loop Theory:

rach:

Not sure if this is true but…

Reading this blew my mind a little. Don’t read it if you don’t want your brain to get all tossed around like flight 815.

That makes perfect sense.

confessionsMy radio station just rick-rolled me. NEVER GONNA...

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:19:00 -0500

confessions

My radio station just rick-rolled me.

NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP!

NEVER GONNA LET YOU DOWN!

"I can’t stand her voice anymore, she makes me angry."

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:33:15 -0500

“I can’t stand her voice anymore, she makes me angry.”

- My mom when I asked her why she kept muting the TV when it was Hillary’s turn to speak during the Ohio debate.

"As for countering what she sees as the empty Obama brand of hope, she offers only a chilly void:..."

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:59:45 -0500

“As for countering what she sees as the empty Obama brand of hope, she offers only a chilly void: Abandon hope all ye who enter here. This must be the first presidential candidate in history to devote so much energy to preaching against optimism, against inspiring language and — talk about bizarre — against democracy itself. No sooner does Mrs. Clinton lose a state than her campaign belittles its voters as unrepresentative of the country.”

- The Audacity of Hopelessness - New York Times (via bijan)

The perfect characterization of the Clinton campaign. I’m incredulous every time I see Clinton on the stump railing against inspirational words, against hope and against any sort of optimism. Does she really think this will work? Or is this just all she has left now that Obama has swept through 11 straight victories.

Obama: 152, Hillary: 20

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:54:38 -0500

Obama: 152, Hillary: 20:

marco:

From zetahydrae:

Those are counts of the bills that both senators have introduced. Obama’s count is in two years as a senator. Hillary’s is in six. And, honestly, most of the ones that she has introduced are just weak, honoring someone or the other, declaring a month/day for “______ awareness,” and naming unnamed courthouses and post offices.

Stanford Drops Tuition for Qualifying Students

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:27:00 -0500

Stanford Drops Tuition for Qualifying Students:

The changes:

Families with incomes lower than $100,000 don’t pay tuition
Families with incomes lower than $60,000 don’t have to pay for room and board as well

Source: Lessig 08. Change Congress.

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:02:52 -0500

Source: Lessig 08. Change Congress.

Vote for experience.

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:04:27 -0500

Vote for experience.

Unbelievable. About as perfect as you can get.

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:00:52 -0500

Unbelievable. About as perfect as you can get.

Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge?

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:44:00 -0500

Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge?

National Geographic: New Species of Leopard.

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:09:55 -0500

National Geographic: New Species of Leopard.

"Students learn that private companies destroy jobs while government policy creates them. Employers..."

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:23:00 -0500

“Students learn that private companies destroy jobs while government policy creates them. Employers exploit while the state protects. Free markets offer chaos while government regulation brings order. Globalization is destructive, if not catastrophic. Business is a zero-sum game, the source of a litany of modern social problems.”

- - Europe’s Philosophy of Failure by Stephen Theil

Stephen Theil, while in Europe on fellowship, details the startling anti-market and anti-globalization bias present in France and Germany which ensures that students are indoctrinated with the view that markets and capitalism are evil. As he writes, students are not so much taught economics as they are taught about economics. Compare this to the prevailing trend of teaching classical economics in the United States without much bias one way or the other.

The effects on entrepreneurship is also telling. While France and Germany produce their share of startups and entrepreneurs (Loic Le Meur and Tariq Krim) they still lag behind the activity present in the UK and especially the US. Can an economy grow and compete all while reviling creative destruction (and construction), vilifying risks, rejecting technology and promoting government?

Lastly, how can they get away with the blatant misinformation being dispensed (especially in the French example provided)? India was stagnant at best until the liberalization in the 1990s. China became a behemoth when the communist party finally loosened its grip over the economy. Surely these facts are bound to break through at some point in the student’s education?

I wonder if the higher-ups in France and Germany truly believe the principles they teach or whether they promote them to create a population reliant on the government and consequently on the elite who run it.

One of my favorite songs by Arcade Fire: Neighborhood #3 (Power...

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:24:57 -0500

One of my favorite songs by Arcade Fire: Neighborhood #3 (Power Out) from their album Funeral

How we spend.

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:36:10 -0500

How we spend.

dailymeh: From an anonymous protest against Scientology. One...

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:04:29 -0500

dailymeh:

From an anonymous protest against Scientology.

One guy in a full-on V outfit made an announcement in a very dull and proper fashion that none of us could hear properly. We were busy heckling him (anonymous has no problem with criticising anonymous), when he reaches the end of his speech and presses play on a boombox.

RICK ASTLEY: NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP

The crowd went fucking wild.

500 people rick-rolling the UK Scientology head office. It was at this point I saw the corners of the cops’ mouths twitch into smiles as they realised it was ok: we were from the internets.