Today is the day, meeting a pal downtown to watch – GO BARCA!!! = c
Category: history
Hero : James Burke
James Burke has the storytelling powers of the immortal. Here we can listen and see him discuss the thinking behind his work. Groovy, indeed. = c
Danny Wilcox Frazier
I give thanks to the gods for Danny Wilcox Frazier. Responsible for chronicling the Midwestern way of life in multiple mediums, he is true to the cause of his homeland and to the powers that live here, unknown to those on the coasts who dare not venture out of their safely *cool* havens for parts…
On reducing pain and suffering
View Larger Map Our pain and suffering can be greatly reduced by simple precautions. On my bicycle yesterday, while cruising home from work, I was moving fast across a busy street and beginning to brake hard as I pointed the albatross [my bike’s name] up over a curb onto the sidewalk just down the way…
Another reason why the Midwest rules
Justin Vernon: = c
Reading List : The Black Swan
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable is a book about randomness and uncertainty by epistemologist Nassim Nicholas Taleb. The Black Swan theory refers to a large-impact, hard-to-predict and rare event beyond the realm of *normal* expectations or logic. His theory refers to events of large consequence and their dominant role in history….
BARCA!
[From SoccerSlave] Ten-man Barcelona denied Chelsea of a place in the Champions League final in the cruelest of fashions with a 93rd-minute away goal at Stamford Bridge. A stunning first-half volley from Michael Essien looked to have earned Chelsea victory and set up a repeat of last year’s Champions League final against Manchester United, where…
Garage Sale Jukebox
Here we see a picture of David Browne posing for his pseudo-wedding portrait [long story] back in 2006. He and his bride, Sarah Lukacs, are old pals of ours from our days living in Seattle, where these two still live and are always up to one scheme or another. His latest is Garage Sale Jukebox….
Driftless: Stories from Iowa
Received this from MediaStorm today: We are excited to announce a special premiere of our soon-to-be released documentary Driftless: Stories from Iowa by Danny Wilcox Frazier on Monday, May 18, at Galapagos Art Space in DUMBO, Brooklyn. The screening of the film will be followed by a Q&A with Danny and the team from MediaStorm….
Here’s the [Beef] Genome
By David Brown Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, April 24, 2009 The genomes of man and dog have been joined in the scientific barnyard by the genome of the cow, an animal that walked beside them on the march to modern civilization. A team of hundreds of scientists working in more than a dozen countries…
Raise your hand if…
…you need to want more. One thing a recession is good for is reminding us how much we need. Raise your hand if you’ve been doing a lot of talking about the economy and the lack of growth and the rise of unemployment and the worry and the poor attitudes and the general malaise about…
Catalan
From Wikipedia: The Catalans are the people from Catalonia, an Autonomous Community of Spain, including people originating in that region but living elsewhere. The inhabitants of the adjacent portion of southern France – known in Catalonia proper as Catalunya Nord (Northern Catalonia), and in France as the Pays Catalan – are often included in this…
Món Sant Benet
I was fortunate to be invited to participate in [and document] a field trip to one of the more reverent locales around Barcelona, Món Sant Benet. Here’s the site’s official story: = c
Is that you, Joshua?
How good does it feel to know there are smart and, yes, successful people out there doing things for a greater good? Take Joshua Silver, for instance, who’s got all the credentials any mofo might need to be a big, selfish dick but instead has made it his goal to deliver affordable corrective lenses to…
the power of stats
perspective : technology integration and learning = c
Voice Rec is here [almost]
My tech-minded pals and I have used all the mediocre voice-recognition solutions out there for years and years, waiting patiently for some genuis to put it all together for the first time. Welp, no one I know has actually used Dictate for the Mac, but demos like these are pretty compelling: = c
They sure didn’t walk very far…
Last weekend, I watched In the Shadow of the Moon, a documentary put together by Ron Howard about the Apollo missions to the Moon. Like a lot of us, I’ve always been extremely curious about all of these things and in my searching for more and more details, I found the pic below [click on…
2008 : A Viral Year
Cheers to the ones who threw some of these together. Things will get interesting this year, indeed, on many sides of the pictures. Here’s a glimpse into some of the *viral* culture that, for better or worse, shaped our world last year: “The take-home lesson here is…” = c
iGame
This could spell T-R-O-U-B-L-E for the gaming industry and its plethora of hardware platforms – what if all you needed to play your favorite games was a cable and the device you carry with you all day anyways: Read more here. = c
Later, Mitch
= c