April 2011
21 posts
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“Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”
– Oscar Wilde
Anonymous asked: I believe Americans were better off when houses depreciated like other property. You bought used if new was too expensive. When you sold, you were satisfied if you weren't too much below what you paid and the difference was the value you got from the years of living in the house. Convincing Americans that there house was their retirement plan has had terrible consequences. People felt less...
Anonymous asked: Many people miss opportunity because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. Thomas Edison
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“(Weird heroes and mold-breaking
(\__/) O champions exist as living...”
– Hunter S. Thompson
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“There are only two things that are absolute realities, love & knowledge, and...”
– Olive Schreiner
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“People are wise in proportion not to their experience, but in their capacity to...”
– George Bernard Shaw
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“…the pattern and original of all dictatorship is the surrender of reason...”
– Christopher Hitchens, Message to American Atheists
California; Where it all went wrong leader from... →
So.. this is interesting.
The Economist this week has a leader story / special report on California. You can buy it (One click buy PDF, which includes all graphics, etc), but you may be able to…
Unrivaled Genius on Netflix Watch Now. Greatest... →
My review of this Netflix play now film.
“Example 30 Minute 23.976 Remote Content” – not sure of the Director’s name.
I doubt the film will be there long, so I need to keep the review here for…
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“Style is a product of your limitations.”
– Emmylous Harris, quoting “something she once read”
Tiburon Time Lapses… happy sailboats and more →
I wasn’t going to throw words into this little box and hope they float. It isn’t my business to dilly or dally, but it isn’t my business to blow air into words like a balloon and watch them emptily…
Just keep flexing →
Odd. Strangely hypnotic.
Death and Social Networks →
Death & Social Networks
I have dealt with death on forums and social networks. When life energy fails or tragedy befalls…. it’s not an active moment online; Accounts don’t close, there are no…
A meaning for one life; thank Fulghum. →
A wonderfully inspiring story I read in my youth……… will eventually appear below, when I feel like it, after some rambling and prattling thought, from Robert Fulghum’s epic gift book from 1988 –…
Data is Now. Aggregate data overload, and... →
You can find so much here at DATAVIS.
This, I believe is the most significant and accessible way for people to understand what is happening here… it’s not just visualizing, but mapping data with…
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“Humans are a surprising, rare, bi-product of simple organic processes.”
– Uncle Fishbits
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“Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.”
– Ambrose Bierce
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“I’ve got a mind to give up living,
And go shopping instead
I’ve...”
– Paul Butterfield
User reviews going away? →
Someone asked if user generated reviews are going away because the sheer amount is creating irrelevance, a la ehow, a la yahoo questions. My thoughts? I place them here copy and paste because I…
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“Capitalism marginalizes public safety?”
– Uncle Fishbits
“Invention is the closest thing we have to magic.”
– Nathan Myhrvold 