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April 27, 2008

doing lines

"Remember when we thought pinstripes were cool? Remember when we thought Members Only was cool? Man, what we were smoking?"

seeing is believing

I find this commercial strangely charming.

April 22, 2008

the geek shall inherit the earth

Wired #16.05, May 2008, p.20

It's an interesting suggestion. I don't know that much about actual autism, aside from mild kidding over the years concerning various friends or myself being "autistic" about certain things, or the occasional Aspergerian aroma wafting off the behavior of an acquaintance, but I could certainly foresee a corporate/industrial environment where such spectrum conditions, wherein some skills are lacking but others are markedly enhanced, find specialized applications. It could be argued that those opportunities and applications already exist, albeit not explicitly so labeled—for now.

April 20, 2008

ain't that the truth and a kick in the head

"When a social norm collides with a market norm, the social norm goes away for a long time. In other words, social relationships are not easy to reestablish. Once the bloom is off the rose—once a social norm is trumped by a market norm—it will rarely return."

April 14, 2008

the mountain will come to you

Long overdue: this site now has a unified RSS feed. The various subsections always had their own separate feeds, but now you can just subscribe to a single aggregation. Thanks, Yahoo! Pipes.

iibook

Just plain sick.

April 01, 2008

joshin' to mars

What pains me about this Google April Fool's wank is that I actually wish it were true.