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At first I couldn't figure out how the sun was casting a shadow from the contrail up to the cirrus clouds above it. The angle just seem...

It looks like the beginning of Minority Report where Tom Cruise is drugged up and looking at the 3D image of his son extrapolated from the...

Don't tell me you have a good heart but don't want to raise money. That's the hard part. From Seth Godin's blog .

From National Geographic photo essay. From Just So Stories "The Elephant's Child" by Rudyard Kipling.

Chess set made out of pure awesome.

It's worth watching this video again to see how much of my aesthetic was shaped by the supermodels in ascendency in the 80's. Acco...

via Boing Boing .

Taken from The End of Education by Neil Postman: Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we do not experience it. -- Max F...

No reason to repost this except that it makes me happy.

Q: Why do magnets repel each other? A: I can't tell you.

Running a good software company is like being a beekeeper .

via BoingBoing

Essay via The Atlantic on the history of the hymn, including alternate lyrics from the labor movement entitled Solidarity Forever . The Bat...

Michael Sandel: The lost art of democratic debate | Video on TED.com "If we had thought that the rules of the sports we care about are...

We are poor little lambs, who have lost our way . . . .

Garry Kasparov talks about innovation and other topics. My favorite quote: Advice to the Obama Administration “You should stop printing mon...

U.S. Navy Vice Admiral William H. P. Blandy, his wife, and Rear Admiral Frank J. Lowry cut a cake made in the shape of a mushroom cloud at a...

"These cars — that’s a school teacher who thinks taxes are too high…there’s a mom with two kids who can’t think about anything else…ano...

The lessons are straightforward: There is no path to excellence at anything except the deliberate, purposeful formation of daily habits tha...