March 2009
124 posts
‘Eritis sicut Deus, scientes bonum et malum’ Genesis 3:5, according
to the Vulgate. ‘Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.’
Prague is pronounced “Prah-Ha” in Czech.
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ATHF: Ode to the moonities
One of the dumbest things said about a land settled by immigrants seeking a new start is that are no second acts in American lives.
The size of social networks | Primates on Facebook... →
Robin Dunbar, an anthropologist who now works at Oxford University, concluded that the cognitive power of the brain limits the size of the social network that an individual of any given species can…
Facebook Is Hunting for More Money - BusinessWeek →
Specifically, the company is looking for a handful of credit lines that would help it finance leases for the growing number of computers it needs to run its popular Web site. Such leases are used by…
Firms Seek Profit in Twitter's Chatter - WSJ.com →
Now, other companies are trying to profit from Twitter’s popularity by experimenting with business models that incorporate parts of the free messaging service. Twitter allows users to broadcast…
I will be chairing a seminar on “Twitter and Social Media” at work.
Working on a brand tracking program benchmark for a major entertainment brand.
U.S. Demand Feeds Mexico’s Drug Trade, Clinton... →
âOur insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade,â she said, using unusually blunt language. âOur inability to prevent weapons from being illegally smuggled across the border to…
UPDATE: First 'Where the Wild Things Are' Trailer!... →
China Takes Aim at Dollar - WSJ.com →
China called for the creation of a new currency to eventually replace the dollar as the world’s standard, proposing a sweeping overhaul of global finance that reflects developing nations’ growing…
Listening to Broken Social Scene and getting ready for my cousin’s wedding.
Pogo - Alice
c h r o m a s i a / photoblog / take my hand →
Reviewing data tables and looking at market segment results.
Pogo – Alice – Listen free and discover music at... →
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Learning about qualitative projective techniques that indirectly encourages the expression of psychologically motivating material. Love it.
Reviewing the HDTV cable marketplace.
Video: Underwater volcano erupts off Tongan coast... →
The Half-Forgotten Prophet: C. Wright Mills →
The slogan of the 1965 Berkeley Free Speech Movement, evoking the computer cards used for data entry, was “I am a human being: do not bend, fold, spindle or mutilate.” At its beginnings, the new…
BSG's United Nations Summit: The Night Battlestar... →
Backed by the bizarre red-and-white U.N. curtains, Ronald D. Moore, Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell and David Eick gathered to discuss the direct correlation between Battlestar Galactica and the…
The Rise of the Underground - WSJ.com →
Economists have long thought the underground economy — the vast, unregulated market encompassing everything from street vendors to unlicensed cab drivers — was bad news for the world economy. Now…
Domination Of Black
olderloverundercover:
At night, by the fire, The colors of the bushes And of the fallen leaves, Repeating themselves, Turned in the room, Like the leaves themselves Turning in the wind. Yes: but the color of the heavy hemlocks Came striding. And I remembered the cry of the peacocks. The colors of their tails Were like the leaves themselves Turning in the wind, In the twilight wind. They swept over...
