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Totally great list.  From Kung Fu Grippe

“When you feel the impossibility of really thinking about the ten thousand year horizon, you’ve got to access that part in each of us which ...

I need to watch this tonight -- something really important is happening here, but I need to spend some time sorting it out in my own mind. ...

In a nutshell, that theme—the intended message of the speech—is: I am a reasonable guy, still hoping to be a uniter rather than a divider,...

Newt Gingrich - Stranger in a Strange Land Mitt Romney - Job: A Comedy of Justice Rick Santorum - Methuselah's Children Ron Paul...

Remember, “data” is not the plural of “anecdote”. -- Tim Bray

ZKO Rollercoaster // GREAT EMOTIONS from virtual republic on Vimeo .

We just completed the 12½ foot diameter, 500 foot deep vertical shaft for the 10,000 Year Clock. We used a mining technique called raise bor...

The founders should end up with about 50% of the company, total. Each of the next five layers should end up with about 10% of the company, s...

Like technical debt, management debt is incurred when you make an expedient, short-term management decision with an expensive, long-term c...

One of the real dilemmas we have in our country and around the world is that what works in politics is organization and conflict. That is, d...

A counterintuitive argument against financial literacy, from Freakonomics.com We then turn to the topic of financial literacy, which we’v...

psephology  -- the statistical study of elections and trends in voting. ORIGIN 1950s: from Greek psēphos ‘pebble, vote’ + -log...

SpuriousLogic writes in with a link to a story about some Canadian consumers who thought they were getting an iPad 2 but instead got the mak...

The first things visitors to New York's iconic Grand Central need to know is that it's not a train station. Because the massive trai...

Isadora Duncan,  dancer :  You are the greatest  brain  in the world and I have the most  beautiful   body , so we ought to produce the...

Search by Image, Recursively, Transparent PNG, #1 from kingcosmonaut3000 on Vimeo .

Very cool camp stove that runs on wood and charges via a USB port.

There are going to be people around you who have demands on your time and attention, and you've got to deal with that.  But keep in mind...

Real success comes not from being invited onto the yacht, but from being able to paddle one's own canoe. Kudos to Hugh McLeod