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What’s the Best Advice You Ever Got? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
may 2010 by earth2marsh
need to read the comments!
!to_read
advice
comments
may 2010 by earth2marsh
Django Best Practices — Django Best Practices
april 2009 by earth2marsh
"This is a living document of best practices in developing and deploying with the Django Web framework. These should not be seen as the right way or the only way to work with Django, but instead best practices we’ve honed after years of working with the framework. It is a fork of the great django-reusable-app-docs project started by Brian Rosner and Eric Holscher regarding best practices for writing and maintaining reusable Django apps."
python
bestpractice
django
webdev
bestpractices
conventions
tips
reference
!to_read
april 2009 by earth2marsh
Alfie Kohn | Articles by Subject
april 2009 by earth2marsh
Includes "The Case against Competition," and "What Does It Mean to Be Well-Educated?"
education
school
performance
!to_read
articles
alfie_kohn
pedagogy
parenting
kids
april 2009 by earth2marsh
Stewart Brand Article: Environmental Heresies
august 2008 by earth2marsh
proposes that environmentalists will change their mind and their behavior about four major subjects in the next ten years—urbanization, population, genetic modification, and nuclear power.
nuclear
environment
Stewart_Brand
urbanization
population
shift
!to_read
august 2008 by earth2marsh
Jonathan Huebner: A possible declining trend for worldwide innovation (pdf)
july 2008 by earth2marsh
"the evidence presented indicates that the rate of innovation reached a peak over a hundred years ago and is now in decline. This decline is most likely due to an economic limit of technology or a limit of the human brain that we are approaching"
!to_read
innovation
future
technology
pdf
july 2008 by earth2marsh
Their men in Washington: Undercover with D.C.'s lobbyists for hire, By Ken Silverstein (Harper's Magazine)
june 2008 by earth2marsh
just another day of doing business in D.C., except for one thing: "Kenneth Case" was a fiction, and his "Maldon Group" a ruse cooked up by Harper's magazine editor Ken Silverstein to demonstrate what D.C. lobbying was really like.
article
politics
lobbying
expose
!to_read
june 2008 by earth2marsh
Google Doctype - Google Code
june 2008 by earth2marsh
an open encyclopedia and reference library. Written by web developers, for web developers. It includes articles on web security, JavaScript DOM manipulation, CSS tips and tricks, and more.
!to_read
google
reference
css
javascript
webdev
resource
community
bestpractices
june 2008 by earth2marsh
Understanding e-learning Technologies-in-practice Through Philosophies-in-practice (PDF)
may 2008 by earth2marsh
How philosophies of teaching pair with technology approaches
elearning
philosophy
technology
education
!to_read
may 2008 by earth2marsh
Meadow Networks » Writing
march 2008 by earth2marsh
inspired by speaking engagements and current events, on wide-ranging topics spanning entrepreneurship to brand creation, transportation to sustainability, and all kinds of networking
Robin_Chase
sustainability
environment
network
articles
!to_read
march 2008 by earth2marsh
Mobile Learning - Abilene Christian University
march 2008 by earth2marsh
ongoing goal to help prepare our students to be critical thinkers, knowledgeable professionals, and responsible citizens calls for continual reevaluation of almost everything that happens in and out of the classroom - even a reevaluation of what constitut
elearning
university
education
mobile
mlearning
!to_read
march 2008 by earth2marsh
wrapping up 2007 (28 December, 2007, Interconnected)
january 2008 by earth2marsh
need to come back to finish reading.
!to_read
web
future
technology
thinking
analysis
ideas
january 2008 by earth2marsh
Through the Looking Glass - The Post-9/11 Era Has Caught Up With William Gibson's Vision - washingtonpost.com
november 2007 by earth2marsh
Interview w/ William Gibson (supposedly excellent according to BoingBoing. Bruce Sterling suggested questions)
!to_read
article
interview
WilliamGibson
scifi
culture
trends
november 2007 by earth2marsh
Official Google Blog: Robots Exclusion Protocol: now with even more flexibility
july 2007 by earth2marsh
We have introduced a new META tag that allows you to tell us when a page should be removed from the main Google web search results: the aptly named unavailable_after tag.
Google
search
robots.txt
robots
server
admin
sysadmin
seo
!to_read
july 2007 by earth2marsh
Edge: WHY DO SOME PEOPLE RESIST SCIENCE By Paul Bloom and Dena Skolnick Weisberg
july 2007 by earth2marsh
developmental data suggest that resistance to science will arise in children when scientific claims clash with early emerging, intuitive expectations
science
Psychology
education
Culture
!to_read
july 2007 by earth2marsh
A List Apart: Articles: Contrast and Meaning
april 2007 by earth2marsh
These basics of creative communication are consistent across art forms: painting, music, dance, acting, poetry, design, and all other artistic endeavors. I divide them into two categories: vocabulary and grammar.
!to_read
usability
design
webdesign
writing
meaning
april 2007 by earth2marsh
Dynamist Blog: Recommended Reading
april 2007 by earth2marsh
"the most influential scholar you've never heard of."
philosophy
culture
Books
Yi-Fu_Tuan
!to_read
place
april 2007 by earth2marsh
How To Identify Unknown Processes In Windows | Watching The Net
february 2007 by earth2marsh
process explorer howto
howto
process
spyware
!to_read
february 2007 by earth2marsh
Morningstar Investing Classroom
january 2007 by earth2marsh
Choose from 172 different courses on stocks, funds, bonds, and portfolio building and monitoring.
investing
finance
education
!to_read
investment
reference
tutorial
money
january 2007 by earth2marsh
Wired 14.07: What Kind of Genius Are You?
july 2006 by earth2marsh
blo Picasso did this copy of a Raphael drawing when he was 17 years old,” the professor told the students. “What have you people done lately?” It’s a question we all ask ourselves. What have we done lately? It rattles us each birthday. It surfaces
genius
creativity
psychology
innovation
interesting
article
!to_read
july 2006 by earth2marsh
Chapter 2: How Experts Differ from Novices | How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School
april 2006 by earth2marsh
experts have acquired extensive knowledge that affects what they notice and how they organize, represent, and interpret information in their environment. This, in turn, affects their abilities to remember, reason, and solve problems.
!to_read
thinking
cognition
expert
novice
april 2006 by earth2marsh
Shuttertalk:: Putting Together a Budget DIY Lighting System
march 2006 by earth2marsh
For under US$75, this article will show you how to put together a flexible and robust lighting system that is both useful and relatively easy on the hip pocket.
photography
lighting
diy
howto
photo
!to_read
useful
march 2006 by earth2marsh
Visual Cognition Lab
march 2006 by earth2marsh
Change Blindness Examples
psychology
perception
cognition
video
vision
Fun
science
!to_read
march 2006 by earth2marsh
Technology As If People Mattered : Weblog
march 2006 by earth2marsh
Knowing how to use regular expressions is a lot like knowing how to cook: even though it is an incredibly useful skill, many people avoid learning.
regexp
tutorial
howto
!to_read
march 2006 by earth2marsh
Buddhism and the Illusion of Time
february 2006 by earth2marsh
There's really no "reel" or "strip" of film appearing on the screen all at once, but rather a single frame every instant, with each instantly replacing the previous one--even though its the same motionless screen they all appear on. So when you become ide
time
buddhism
!to_read
february 2006 by earth2marsh
Read Go It Alone!
february 2006 by earth2marsh
The secret to building a successful business on your own
howto
startup
!to_read
february 2006 by earth2marsh
TECH BLOG
february 2006 by earth2marsh
10 Things (in no particular order) that a web developer should do for the client (or their own website), as part of the job.
web
webdev
!to_read
february 2006 by earth2marsh
Yahoo! Design Pattern Library
february 2006 by earth2marsh
A pattern describes an optimal solution to a common problem within a specific context.
design
!to_read
february 2006 by earth2marsh
Beginners Guides: 99 Performance Tips for WindowsXP - PCStats.com
february 2006 by earth2marsh
From faster boot times, to speeding up your current hardware, PCstats has 99 Tips to make your computer run quicker, better, and more efficiently.
windows
xp
tips
tweaks
performance
useful
!to_read
february 2006 by earth2marsh
EIK 00
january 2006 by earth2marsh
During the last two weeks of January 1975 Buckminster Fuller gave an extraordinary series of lectures concerning his entire life’s work.
Science
Buckminster
!to_read
january 2006 by earth2marsh
The Last Question
january 2006 by earth2marsh
Asimov thought that The Last Question, first copyrighted in 1956, was his best short story ever.
books
Asimov
!to_read
january 2006 by earth2marsh
Creating Passionate Users: Crash course in learning theory
january 2006 by earth2marsh
here's a crash course on some of our favorite learning techniques gleaned from cognitive science, learning theory, neuroscience, psychology, and entertainment (including game design)
learning
teaching
education
!to_read
theory
howto
january 2006 by earth2marsh
The Vega Science Trust - Richard Feynman - Freeview Video
january 2006 by earth2marsh
A set of four priceless archival recordings from the University of Auckland (New Zealand) of the outstanding Nobel prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman - arguably the greatest science lecturer ever. Although the recording is of modest technical quality
physics
video
feynman
science
lectures
streaming
!to_read
education
free
january 2006 by earth2marsh
THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2006
january 2006 by earth2marsh
What is your dangerous idea? An idea you think about (not necessarily one you originated) that is dangerous not because it is assumed to be false, but because it might be true?
science
essays
!to_read
interesting
ideas
future
january 2006 by earth2marsh
TripStalker - online travel bot continuously scours the Internet looking for the best price possible for airfare, hotels, cars.
december 2005 by earth2marsh
TripStalker is a new, easy-to-use application that grabs the best online travel deals while you do other things, saving you precious time and money!
software
lifehacks
free
!to_read
december 2005 by earth2marsh
Particletree · A Guide to Starting Your Business
december 2005 by earth2marsh
Making your own decisions. Doing something you love. Spending more time with the family. Participating in the American Dream. Starting a business is awesome. Paperwork. Legal fees. Invoices. More paperwork. Taxes. Starting a business sucks. The Particletr
business
startup
howto
!to_read
december 2005 by earth2marsh
Unobtrusive Javascript
december 2005 by earth2marsh
Javascript is a wonderful tool to enhance the usability of web sites. It is the extra layer above the mark-up "what is this text" and the CSS "how should it be displayed". Javascript adds a new dimension, the "how should this element behave".
javascript
webdev
accessibility
howto
tutorial
!to_read
december 2005 by earth2marsh
Google Information for Webmasters
december 2005 by earth2marsh
Following these guidelines will help Google find, index, and rank your site. Even if you choose not to implement any of these suggestions, we strongly encourage you to pay very close attention to the "Quality Guidelines," which outline some of the illicit
Google
seo
webdev
howto
useful
!to_read
december 2005 by earth2marsh
Google Analytics
december 2005 by earth2marsh
Google Analytics tells you everything you want to know about how your visitors found you and how they interact with your site. You'll be able to focus your marketing resources on campaigns and initiatives that deliver ROI, and improve your site to convert
Google
seo
analysis
traffic
webdev
!to_read
useful
december 2005 by earth2marsh
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