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Making smart on Env
"Smart people can take something complex and express it faithfully in different, especially simper, terms. They can interpret and reinterpret. If you want to make something smart, it’s tempting to do smartness to your topic until you’ve condensed it into some admirably lucid interpretation, then hand that to the audience and wait for the applause. Sometimes this is what’s needed. But it isn’t how to make smart things. A smart thing is something for a smart person. However many interpretations you put in it, however fertile they are, you leave room for more.

You do this because you respect what you are interpreting and you do it because you respect your audience. It’s a lot like being considerate. And that’s how you make smart things."
making  writing  subjectivities  balance  interpretation  dryness  comments  audience  clever  cleverness  criticism  superiority  disdain  milankundera  kitsch  storytelling  airs  malcolmgladwell  ted  smartness  authenticity  entertainment  art  nervio  thomaskincade  beauty  humor  neilgaiman  2012  consideration  smarts  smart  charlieloyd 
10 days ago by robertogreco
Journal of Universal Rejection
"The founding principle of the Journal of Universal Rejection (JofUR) is rejection. Universal rejection. That is to say, all submissions, regardless of quality, will be rejected. Despite that apparent drawback, here are a number of reasons you may choose to submit to the JofUR:

You can send your manuscript here without suffering waves of anxiety regarding the eventual fate of your submission. You know with 100% certainty that it will not be accepted for publication.

* There are no page-fees.

* You may claim to have submitted to the most prestigious journal (judged by acceptance rate).

* The JofUR is one-of-a-kind. Merely submitting work to it may be considered a badge of honor.

* You retain complete rights to your work, and are free to resubmit to other journals even before our review process is complete.

* Decisions are often (though not always) rendered within hours of submission."
via:sarahhendren  journals  publishing  humor  rejection  academia  from delicious
11 days ago by robertogreco
Blog | Surly Bikes: Some answers to just about any bike forum post I’ve ever read
[A taste]

"If you think your bike looks good, it does.

If you like the way your bike rides, it’s an awesome bike.

You don’t need to spend a million dollars to have a great bike, but if you do spend a million dollars and know what you want you’ll probably also have a great bike.

Yes, you can tour on your bike – whatever it is.

Yes, you can race on your bike – whatever it is.

Yes, you can commute on your bike – whatever it is.

26” wheels or 29” or 650b or 700c or 24” or 20” or whatever – yes, that wheel size is rad and you’ll probably get where you’re going.

Disc brakes, cantis, v-brakes, and road calipers all do a great job of stopping a bike when they’re working and adjusted.

No paint job makes everyone happy.

Yes, you can put a rack on that. Get some p-clamps if there are no mounts.

Steel is a great material for making bike frames - so is aluminum, carbon fiber, and titanium.

You can have your saddle at whatever angle makes you happy…"
diversity  humor  allsorts  bikeculture  2011  biking  bikes  from delicious
8 weeks ago by robertogreco
Library and archive culture
"an eclectic collection of images and documents of the library, archive, and information management profession"
history  posters  graphics  docspopuli  documents  images  humor  information  informationmanagement  archives  libraries  library  politics  culture  from delicious
8 weeks ago by robertogreco
Instapaper Placebo
"I’ve built instapaper placebo because instapaper itself is too complex for what I need. I don’t need a nice mobile app for reading. I don’t need a way to remove all the clutter from the page. I don’t need an online cross-platform bookmark syncing service. I just need a way of offloading all my good intentions. A way to stop hoarding links. And with less stuff to read I can make more stuff instead. Productive stuff. Like instapaper placebo.

Oh. Never mind."
infooverload  bookmarklets  2012  humor  placebo  instapaper  from delicious
11 weeks ago by robertogreco
Tim and Eric’s comedy of repulsion - Salon.com
"This repulsion toward vulnerability is really a resentment at being put in charge of a person who doesn’t know how to play the game of affecting invincibility. The main purpose of this game is pretending death will never come; the smaller goal is to pretend that we are all perfectly self-sufficient. This is why so many people were outraged at Lana del Rey’s “Saturday Night Live” performance: She stopped playing the game and forced us to bear witness to her crippling fear. This is also why people abuse the elderly and disabled and animals — their vulnerability is too obvious and provokes hostile resentment."

"It’s important to mess with the spiritual structure of the world — the architecture of ideas, institutions, identities and even the structure of filmmaking. Only by doing this can the ludicrous nature of the game be revealed. Maybe one day we will overcome our repulsion toward weakness and admit our fragility on a daily basis…"
humor  human  identity  vulnerability  _2012  film  timanderic  celeryman  paulrudd  kartinarichardson 
february 2012 by robertogreco
Six Things That Are Dead, According to Harold Bloom | Book Think | Big Think
"Celebrated literary critic Harold Bloom turns 82 this year…is still publishing & teaching. In his honor, I’ve compiled a list of 6 things he’s outlived.

1) The Western canon.

[long quote]

2) American education.

“American education—even in elite unis—has become a scandal, in my opinion. It has committed suicide.” —TheBrowser.com interview, 2011

3) Art.

[On slam poetry] “It is the death of art.” —Paris Review interview, 2000

4) The mind.

[On Yale graduates flocking to business careers] “Alas, this is the death of the mind.” —Yale Daily News interview, 2011

5) Rock & roll.

“There hasn’t been any good American rock since, alas, The Band disbanded.” —Paris Review interview, 1991

6) The death of the author.

“It was fashionable, quite recently, to talk about ‘the death of the author,’ but this too has become rubbish. The dead genius is more alive than we are.” —Genius: A Mosaic of 100 Exemplary Creative Minds, 2002"

[via: http://thatcamp.org/02/10/the-unconference-is-alive/ ]
deathof  americaneducation  education  highereducation  highered  universities  westerncanon  art  2012  haroldbloom  humor 
february 2012 by robertogreco
MURK AVENUE, I FOUND ICE CUBES 'GOOD DAY'
"CLUE 1:
     “went to short dogs house,
       they was watching Yo MTV
       RAPS”
Yo MTV RAPS first aired:
               Aug 6th 1988
CLUE 2:
Ice Cubes single “today was a good day” released on:
               Feb 23 1993
CLUE 3:
      ”The Lakers beat the Super 
       Sonics”
Dates between Yo MTV Raps air date AUGUST 6 1988 and the release of the single FEBRUARY 23 1993 where the Lakers beat the Super Sonics: …"
losangeles  lakers  yomtvraps  nationalgooddayday  1992  goodday  humor  music  hiphop  sleuthing  rap  icecube  from delicious
january 2012 by robertogreco
5 provocative ideas sparked by women in media | Poynter.
"From the many, many ideas Popova has sparked in my brain, one has stuck more stubbornly than any other: We need to start treating discovery, connection and sharing as creative acts."

"Why do these heady observations on nostalgia matter for busy media professionals? Because I’d argue there’s real opportunity in our affinity for nostalgia. Think of Instagram: I’d argue it’s taken off partly because its filters lend an artificial veneer of nostalgia to those in-the-moment digital photos; they instantly make a moment seem more distant or unrecoverable."

[via: http://bettyann.tumblr.com/post/16433811360 ]
humor  comedy  longform  homicidewatch  discovery  connections  curation  instagram  2012  nostalgia  connection  sharing  cv  media  journalism  mariapopova  mattthompson  creativity  from delicious
january 2012 by robertogreco
Gibson: Dreaming in Social Media · tealtan · Storify
An online dinner party (or nightcap) conversation in the wake of a "William Gibson gave a talk tonight at the Union Square B&N;, and threw out a provocative thought." Compiled by Allen Tan.
oversharing  intimacy  surrealism  dreamspace  networks  sharedconsciousness  unconsciousness  sharing  reading  blurredrealms  sleeping  waking  joy  sarcasm  snark  humor  telepresence  presence  future  fiction  onlinedinnerparty  humanity  andrewfamiglietti  sciencefiction  scifi  socialmedia  web  net  dreams  ideasmuggling  ideas  books  nyc  maxfenton  danielreetz  erinkissane  comments  aaronstewart-ahn  timcarmody  twitter  storify  conversation  2012  allentan  williamgibson  from delicious
january 2012 by robertogreco
Borderland › And corrupting our children every day
"Republican consultant and strategist, Noelle Nikpour: “Scientists are scamming the American people right and left for their own ‘finansual’ gain.”

It’s all too obvious: [The Daily Show clip, Science: What's It Up To?]"
dailyshow  jonstewart  science  noellenikpour  humor  republicans  evolution  globalwarming  2011  politics  policy  schools  education 
october 2011 by robertogreco
What if the Secret to Success Is Failure? - NYTimes.com
"…concerns about a character program…comprised only those kind of nice-guy values. “The danger w/ character is if you just revert to these general terms—respect, honesty, tolerance—it seems really vague. If I stand in front of kids & just say, ‘It’s really important for you to respect each other,’…they glaze over. But if you say, ‘Well, actually you need to exhibit self-control,’ or you explain the value of social intelligence—this will help you collaborate more effectively —…it seems…more tangible.”…

“Sure, a trait can backfire. Too much grit…you start to lose ability to have empathy for other people. If you’re so gritty that you don’t understand why everyone’s complaining about how hard things are, because nothing’s hard for you, because you’re Mr. Grit, you’re going to have a hard time being kind. Even love—being too loving might make you the kind of person who can get played…character is something you have to be careful about…strengths can become character weaknesses.”
education  character  tcsnmy  lcproject  teaching  learning  grading  books  success  failure  kipp  schools  workethic  kindness  empathy  dominicrandolph  davidlevin  michaelfeinberg  martinseligman  christopherpeterson  2011  psychology  longterm  grit  gritscale  angeladuckworth  iq  wholecandidatescore  grades  self-control  socialintelligence  gratitude  curiosity  optimism  zest  gpa  cpa  character-pointaverage  middle-classvalues  self-regulation  interpersonal  love  humor  beauty  bravery  citizenship  fairness  integrity  wisdom  from delicious
september 2011 by robertogreco
Paul Simms: “God’s Blog” : The New Yorker [Samples from the "comments"]
"Why are the creatures more or less symmetrical on a vertical axis but completely asymmetrical on a horizontal axis? It’s almost like You had a great idea but You didn’t have the balls to go all the way with it."<br />
<br />
"I liked the old commenting format better, when you could get automatic alerts when someone replied to your comment. This new way, you have to click through three or four pages to see new comments, and they’re not even organized by threads. Until this is fixed, I’m afraid I won’t be checking in on Your creation."<br />
"Unfocussed. Seems like a mishmash at best. You’ve got creatures that can speak but aren’t smart (parrots). Then, You’ve got creatures that are smart but can’t speak (dolphins, dogs, houseflies). Then, You’ve got man, who is smart and can speak but who can’t fly, breathe underwater, or unhinge his jaws to swallow large prey in one gulp. If it’s supposed to be chaos, then mission accomplished. But it seems more like laziness and bad planning."
humor  religion  creation  blogging  commenting  paulsimms  bible  genesis  internet  web  from delicious
august 2011 by robertogreco
World of Class Warfare - Warren Buffett vs. Wealthy Conservatives - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 08/18/11 - Video Clip | Comedy Central
"Warren Buffett's op-ed is a thoughtful treatise on the advantages the super-wealthy currently enjoy at the hands of the tax code, or to put it another way, "class warfare."<br />
<br />
"World of Class Warfare - The Poor's Free Ride Is Over: The government could raise $700 billion by either taking half of everything earned by the bottom 50% or by raising the marginal tax rate on the top two percent."<br />
<br />
[That's from the second part here: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-august-18-2011/world-of-class-warfare---the-poor-s-free-ride-is-over ]
classwarfare  humor  dailyshow  jonstewart  warrenbuffett  poverty  us  foxnews  budget  debt  wealthdistribution  wealth  2011  policy  taxes  from delicious
august 2011 by robertogreco
William Gibson (@greatdismal) on Heello
heello  williamgibson  fakes  humor  twitter  via:adamgreenfield 
august 2011 by robertogreco
The Clinic (revista) - Wikipedia
"The Clinic [http://www.theclinic.cl/ ] es un semanario chileno de corte satírico, fundado en noviembre de 1998 por Patricio Fernández, Enrique Symns, Marco Enríquez-Ominami y Guillermo Tejeda. Posteriormente se uniría Pablo Dittborn como socio, al mismo tiempo que se retiraba Tejeda. Su nombre se debe a la clínica The London Clinic donde debió permanecer inicialmente Augusto Pinochet mientras estuvo detenido en Londres entre 1998 y 2000. Patricio Fernández sirvió de director de la publicación desde el comienzo hasta agosto del 2006, cuando es reemplazado por el editor Juan Andrés Guzmán. Actualmente, sus editores son Pablo Vergara (general) y Vicente Undurraga (cultura)."
theclinic  chile  media  memo  marcoenríquesominami  enriquesymns  politics  humor  theonion 
august 2011 by robertogreco
Twitter / @robinsloan: @stirman underwear = jeans ...
stirman [Jason Stirman]: Packing for trip. Industry standard is underwear = 1.5x per day, but jeans = 1x per 3.5 days, right?<br />
<br />
robinsloan: @stirman underwear = jeans × π
humor  packing  robinsloan  ratios  math  calculation  classtrips  from delicious
august 2011 by robertogreco
‪Vilnius Mayor A.Zuokas Fights Illegally Parked Cars with Tank‬‏ - YouTube
cars  vilnius  bikes  biking  humor  parking  bikelanes  from delicious
august 2011 by robertogreco
Astronaut Suicides [photo series]
"I understand that some believe that we should return to the surface of the moon but I have to say this bluntly, we have been there before.<br />
<br />
President Barack Obama<br />
April 15th 2010"
suicide  nasa  humor  2011  astronauts  from delicious
august 2011 by robertogreco
Should I Work for Free?
design  business  work  humor  visualization  snark  jessicahische  freelancing  abuse  free  beenthere  from delicious
august 2011 by robertogreco
Amazon.com: The Chairs Are Where the People Go: How to Live, Work, and Play in the City (9780865479456): Misha Glouberman, Sheila Heti: Books
"Should neighborhoods change? Is wearing a suit a good way to quit smoking? Why do people think that if you do one thing, you’re against something else? Is monogamy a trick? Why isn’t making the city more fun for you and your friends a super-noble political goal?…Misha Glouberman’s friend & collaborator, Sheila Heti, wanted her next book to be a compilation of everything Misha knew. Together, they made a list of subjects. As Misha talked, Sheila typed. He talked about games, relationships, cities, negotiation, improvisation, Casablanca, conferences, & making friends. His subjects ranged from the sublime to the ridiculous. But sometimes what had seemed trivial began to seem important—& what had seemed important began to seem less so…refreshing, appealing, & kind of profound. It’s a self-help book for people who don’t feel they need help, & a how-to book that urges you to do things you don’t really need to do."
books  toread  mishaglouberman  sheilaheti  cities  life  howto  humor  play  work  2011  from delicious
august 2011 by robertogreco
Favorite Books of the Secretly Jerky | The Hairpin
"Secretly Planning to Cheat on You: On the Road, Jack Kerouac.<br />
<br />
I’m not going to sugarcoat it. This book is straight up terrible. It's a bunch of rambling about eating some sandwiches and driving around while eating sandwiches, and driving around, and then making some more sandwiches, which you will then eat while driving around. It is the universal favorite book of commitment-phobes. And please don't quote me that paragraph about how the only people for you are the mad ones who pop like roman candles. You know what’s better than a dude who pops like a roman candle? A dude who can keep it in his pants, rent his own apartment, and cook you something other than a sandwich once in a while."
books  humor  reviews  classics  catcherintherye  ontheroad  jackkerouac  jdsalinger  atlasshrugged  aynrand  huntersthompson  fearandloathinginlasvegas  americanpsycho  breteastonellis  via:tcarmody  literature  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
The T-Shirts of Comic-Con, 2011 | KPBS.org
"A photo collection of some of the best, funniest, strangest t-shirts at Comic-Con International."
angelacorone  t-shirts  comic-con  humor  2011  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
Dangerous Minds | What it’s really like to work in a music store
"And there you have it. These videos are mini-masterpieces of comedy. Not only are you laughing at the “musicians” testing out instruments at the store, but when this guy makes his cameo appearance, the look on his face will have you in tears. He doesn’t have to say anything at all and it’s side-splitting. When you make eye-contact, you know what he’s thinking!"
humor  work  retail  music  via:anterobot  video  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
The Dangers of Bread
"Well, I've done a little research, and what I've discovered should make anyone think twice....<br />
<br />
1. More than 98 percent of convicted felons are bread eaters.<br />
2. Fully HALF of all children who grow up in bread-consuming households score below average on standardized tests.<br />
3. In the 18th century, when virtually all bread was baked in the home, the average life expectancy was less than 50 years; infant mortality rates were unacceptably high; many women died in childbirth; and diseases such as typhoid, yellow fever and influenza ravaged whole nations.<br />
4. More than 90 percent of violent crimes are committed within 24 hours of eating bread.<br />
5. Bread is made from a substance called "dough." It has been proven that as little as one pound of dough can be used to suffocate a mouse. The average American eats more bread than that in one month!<br />
6. Primitive tribal societies that have no bread exhibit a low occurrence of cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease and osteoporosis…"
humor  food  politics  science  research  bread  bias  classideas  via:lukeneff  statistics  context  fear  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
YouTube - ‪A "Real" Grad School Ad‬‏
[See also Honest College Ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbsdlSpA2GU ]
deschooling  via:leighblackall  gradschool  humor  academia  superiority  life  education  highereducation  colleges  universities  collegeforall  rttt  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
YouTube - ‪Your Editing Lacks Continuity‬‏
"Can you spot all the inconsistencies? Probably not. Yes, that IS a challenge. Dennis."
humor  film  filmmaking  editing  via:morgansully  toshare  continuity  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
For Dewey, Bellow, and Sweetness: The Story of the Chicago Comma - storify.com
"The University of Oxford no longer uses the "Oxford" or serial Comma in its own publications. Even though the serial comma is still recommended by Oxford University Press, we feel that the time has come for the torch to be passed to a new city on a new continent. We say: let the so-called Oxford Comma become hereafter known as the Chicago Comma."
timcarmody  danielsinker  oxford  oxfordcomma  punctuation  chicago  2011  manualofstyle  writing  style  ego  humor  appropriation  renaming  classideas  storify  commas  howwewrite  parentheses  quotationmarks  dumbquotes  serialcomma  language  communication  styleguide 
june 2011 by robertogreco
For Dewey, Bellow, and Sweetness: The Story of the Chicago Comma - storify.com
"The University of Oxford no longer uses the "Oxford" or serial Comma in its own publications. Even though the serial comma is still recommended by Oxford University Press, we feel that the time has come for the torch to be passed to a new city on a new continent. We say: let the so-called Oxford Comma become hereafter known as the Chicago Comma."
timcarmody  danielsinker  oxford  oxfordcomma  punctuation  chicago  2011  manualofstyle  writing  style  ego  humor  appropriation  renaming  classideas  storify  commas  howwewrite  parentheses  quotationmarks  dumbquotes  serialcomma  language  communication  styleguide  johndewey  saulbellow  from delicious
june 2011 by robertogreco
YouTube Playlist: The History of English in Ten Minutes
Description: Where did the phrase 'a wolf in sheep's clothing' come from? And when did scientists finally get round to naming sexual body parts? Voiced by Clive Anderson, this entertaining romp through 'The History of English' squeezes 1600 years of history into 10 one-minute bites, uncovering the sources of English words and phrases from Shakespeare and the King James Bible to America and the Internet. Bursting with fascinating facts, the series looks at how English grew from a small tongue into a major global language before reflecting on the future of English in the 21st century.
language  history  english  classideas  via:thelibrarianedge  cliveanderson  humor  openuniversity  open  from delicious
june 2011 by robertogreco
James Enos talks about Clairemont on Vimeo
His informal presentation on the critique of Clairemont from Pecha Kucha on April 20th. The piece discussed in his rant is currently on show at MCASD in La Jolla's "Here Not There" opening.
1951  tracthomes  clairemont  jamesenos  informal  sandiego  architecture  herenotthere  mcasd  pechakucha  housing  alterations  art  design  vernacular  entitlement  dwellmagazine  dwell  clairemonterasure  suburbs  suburbia  parametricarchitecture  juxtaposition  realestate  commentary  tracthousing  criticalpractice  whatwewant  socal  buildingboom  southpark  humor  from delicious
june 2011 by robertogreco
Conan O’Brien’s Dartmouth Commencement Address ... - AUSTIN KLEON : TUMBLR
"whole address is so good, but I keep coming back to… [part] about how failure to perfectly copy our heroes leads to finding our own voice…

"Way back in the 1940s there was a very, very funny man named Jack Benny. He was a giant star, easily one of the greatest comedians of his generation. And a much younger man named Johnny Carson wanted very much to be Jack Benny. In some ways he was, but in many ways he wasn’t. He emulated Jack Benny, but his own quirks and mannerisms, along with a changing medium, pulled him in a different direction. And yet his failure to completely become his hero made him the funniest person of his generation. David Letterman wanted to be Johnny Carson, and was not, and as a result my generation of comedians wanted to be David Letterman. And none of us are. My peers and I have all missed that mark in a thousand different ways. But the point is this : It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique.""
conano'brien  dartmouth  creativity  voice  identity  humor  2011  change  mannerisms  johnnycarson  davidletterman  jackbenny  failure  copying  mimicry  quirkiness  personality  mutations  babyboomers  uniqueness  success  nietzsche  disappointment  socialmedia  innovation  spontaneity  satisfaction  convictions  fear  reinvention  perceivedfailure  self-defintion  clarity  originality 
june 2011 by robertogreco
Michael Schur and Nate DiMeo try their hand at learning cricket - Grantland
"With labor trouble threatening the seasons of two of our four major sports, a pair of red-blooded Americans look overseas to fill the potential gap."
sports  cricket  humor 
june 2011 by robertogreco
Chuck Klosterman on Rock VORP - Grantland
"WE ARE THE PEOPLE, AND WE ARE OUTSTANDING.

And yet … not perfect.

Not quite. There's still a lot of greatness to be achieved. We're still struggling with cold fusion and time travel. It seems like our ACLs are constantly tearing. Cats remain undomesticated. Many of the existential paradoxes originally raised by Gallagher continue to haunt us (parking on driveways, driving on parkways, etc.). To truly live, man must forever joust against himself. He must wage war against his own sexy demons. And I think we'd all agree that one of these demons looms larger than all others combined — we still haven't figured out a way to arbitrarily turn art into math.

Well, that is about to change.

That is about to VORM."

[via: http://hello.typepad.com/hello/2011/06/chuck-klosterman-on-rock-vorp.html ]
art  music  humor  society  humans  2011  potential  there'sworktodo  progress  chuckklosterman  from delicious
june 2011 by robertogreco
undef | receipt-racer
"RECEIPT RACER: a microproject by undef and Joshua Noble<br />
<br />
The receipt racer combines different in and output devices into a complete game. It was made during the "Let's feed the future workshop", organized by creativeapplications.net as a part of the OFFF Festival in Barcelona on June 8th 2011. <br />
<br />
The game is played on a receipt printer, a common device you can see at every convenient store. It prints those papers you usually find crumbled up in your pockets, just to throw them away. It is a thermal printer using heat to darken the paper. This eliminates any slowdowns in printing lots of black. A roll can be ordered online and costs around 80 cents."
design  art  games  humor  videogames  papernet  make  receiptracer  gaming  from delicious
june 2011 by robertogreco
What the Fuck Cricket Is by Giles Turnbull - The Morning News
"Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week, GILES TURNBULL solves one of Earth’s trickiest mysteries involving bats, balls, and scuttlewicks.<br />
<br />
Question: Seriously what the fuck is cricket. Please ask one of your British correspondents to lay it out.—G.S.<br />
<br />
Answer: In order to have a decent game of cricket, you must first ensure that it isn’t raining. <br />
<br />
For a game invented in that global capital of rain, that dominion of drizzle, England, this fact alone should give you a sign that cricket is something special. <br />
<br />
The English have thousands of words for precipitation, but only one way of calling off a game of cricket because of wet weather: “Rain stopped play.”<br />
<br />
Cricket, like photographic film, or Tara Reid, is light-sensitive. A game can be called off simply because it’s getting a tad gloomy. This, from a cold, rainy, overcast, gloomy nation like England seems incongruous. But cricket was invented for a reason. And that reason was sandwiches."
writing  sports  cricket  humor  2011  gilesturnbull  from delicious
june 2011 by robertogreco
Crisis in Dairyland - Angry Curds - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 02/28/11 - Video Clip | Comedy Central
"Rather than ending tax cuts for the wealthy or closing corporate tax loopholes, Republicans want to get money from teachers."
education  teaching  politics  reform  crisis  wisconsin  2011  jonstewart  humor  banking  salaries  work  labor  unions  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
Dashboard Coincidences
"Is your dashboard a home for strange or amusing coincidences?<br />
<br />
Send a .jpg file or link to dbcoincidences [at] gmail [dot] com and we'll reblog!"
tumblr  dashboard  coincidence  coincidences  humor  blogs  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
Freedom Is Free - Mark A. DeWeaver - Mises Daily
"Many people imagine authoritarian regimes have an advantage over free societies because they can force people to conform to a rational plan. Freedom, it would seem, isn't free…comes at cost of irrationality. Free enterprise results in Hilferding's "anarchic production," democracy in Marx's "parliamentary cretinism." Surely better outcomes could be achieved by an all-wise, incorruptible philosopher king, if only a suitable person could be found for the job…<br />
<br />
…free society is a playful society…constantly innovating…coming up w/ new ideas…trying new things…thrives on irony & humor rather than on certainty…typically cannot even account for its own success…simply accepts anything that works.<br />
<br />
The moral…free societies…"accomplish everything by doing nothing."…are…"like the flower, who has no rational plan to provide for herself, but still ends up dressed more richly than Solomon…"<br />
<br />
[via: https://twitter.com/bopuc/status/71130524705492992 ]
freedom  marxism  anarchism  authoritarianism  power  society  life  innovation  play  democracy  irony  humor  experimentation  books  toread  danielcloud  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
The Non-Expert: IKEA by Matthew Baldwin - The Morning News
"Question: Hey Nonexpert, my girlfriend drags me to IKEA almost every weekend and it’s driving me crazy. What should I tell her? –Brent Flagg<br />
Answer: There is no known treatment for IKEA addiction. The best you can do is learn to survive…

IKEA WALKTHROUGH v2.3.1…

IKEA is a fully immersive, 3D environmental adventure that allows you to role-play the character of someone who gives a shit about home furnishings. In traversing IKEA, you will experience a meticulously detailed alternate reality filled with garish colors, clear-lacquered birch veneer, and a host of NON-PLAYER CHARACTERS (NPCs) with the glazed looks of the recently anesthetized."
ikea  walkthrough  videogames  gaming  humor  games  survival  2004  themorningnews  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
Reality TV of the Middle Ages | The Hairpin
humor  classideas  middleages  tcsnmy  history  realitytv  writing  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
Deja Vu Vu Vu Vu | Strange Attractor
"Many of us have experienced déjà vu…But for some of us, it becomes pathological.<br />
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One man had it so badly that he stopped watching TV because everything seemed to be a repeat, even the news, recalls psychologist Chris Moulin of the University of Leeds, U.K.<br />
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Yet when Moulin offered to help him, he adds, it was futile at first. The man “said there was no point visiting the clinic because he’d already been there.”"<br />
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"Moulin believes a circuit in an area of the brain under the temples, called the temporal lobe, fires up when we recall the past. This creates the experience of remembering, but also a ‘recollective experience’—the sense of the self in the past.<br />
In a person with chronic déjà vu this circuit is either overactive or permanently switched on, creating memories where none exist, he argues. When new events are processed, they are accompanied by a strong feeling of remembering."<br />
[via: http://www.rereviewed.com/roguesemiotics/?p=683 ]
dejavu  humor  chronicdejavu  psychology  memory  2006  pathology  pathologies  chrismoulin  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
prosthetic knowledge — First Impressions by Jenny Holzer
jennyholzer  truisms  power  hierarchy  people  society  humanism  quotes  money  wisdom  torture  freedom  choice  taste  inheritance  government  humor  social  behavior  surplus  wealth  anger  hate  elite  revolution  alienation  labor  life  pain  morals  selfishness  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
How 'Radiolab' Is Transforming the Airwaves - NYTimes.com
"they seem to share is a blend of curiosity & skepticism, willingness to be convinced—& delight in convincing."

“Normally reporter goes out & learns something, writes it down & speaks from knowledge…Jokes & glitches puncture illusion of all-knowing authority, who no longer commands much respect these days anyway. It’s more honest to “let audience hear & know that you are manufacturing a version of events…

“It’s consciously letting people see outside frame…those moments are really powerful. What it’s saying to listener is: ‘Look, we all know what’s happening here. I’m telling you a story, I’m trying to sort of dupe you in some cosmic way.’ We all know it’s happening—& in a sense we all want it to happen.”

This is how “Radiolab” addresses tension btwn authenticity & artifice: capturing raw, off-the-cuff moments…& editing them in gripping pastiche…hope…is to preserve sense of excitement & discovery that often drains away in authoritative accounts of traditional journalism."
via:lukeneff  radiolab  radio  npr  robertkrulwich  jadabumrad  2011  storytelling  science  journalism  classideas  authority  authenticity  humility  humor  fun  artifice  attention  engagement  curiosity  skepticism  convincing  knowledge  honesty  uncertainty  perspective  teaching  knowing  understanding  transparency  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
Some Kind of Awesome - Home - [Watch] Beastie Boys - "Fight For Your Right - Revisited" Trailer
"Above is the trailer for the upcoming 30 minute Beastie Boys video for "Fight For Your Right - Revisited" featuring a star cast including (but not limited to): Jack Black, Will Arnet, Will Farrell, Elijah Wood, Susan Saranden, Harvey Keitel and a handful more. The video will also include "Make Some Noise", so I guess technically this is the video for that as well?"
via:rushtheiceberg  beastieboys  2011  video  music  humor  willferrell  jackblack  elijahwood  susansarandon  harveykeitel  future  time  timetravel  willarnet  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
scottmccloud.com - Five Card Nancy
"Five Card Nancy is a Dada card game using cut-up panels from Ernie Bushmiller's long-running 20th Century comic strip Nancy. Here are the official rules if you want to make your own deck and try it out. Special thanks to Barry Deutsch whose Usenet post in late ‘98 gave me the jumping off point for the write-up.<br />
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You're looking at pictures of fish because I'm too lazy to argue with United Media's lawyers."
comics  games  storytelling  humor  cards  cardgames  diy  scottmccloud  fivecardnancy  dada  dadaism  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
How not to do it | The Compass Point
"So once we are over the shock horror of the faux fears that this means the end of literature, let’s remember the distinction between the leisurely novel and the haiku. Both have their place. And with the time saving from precise non-literary and meditative communication there is time for both.<br />
<br />
Maybe Jane Austen who wrote of “… the little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush” is the model. She certainly knew how to skewer  human absurdity with the tightly constructed sentence."<br />
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[Related: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/20/opinion/20selsberg.html ]
josieholford  writing  brevity  twitter  literature  humor  precision  classideas  communication  history  summary  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
CIA's 'Facebook' Program Dramatically Cut Agency's Costs | Onion News Network
"The CIA's invention of Facebook has saved the government millions of dollars."
facebook  cia  socialmedia  video  twitter  humor  theonion  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
rmcl
"[Regarding Vision, an optic topic]:<br />
[duck-rabbits breeding...]<br />
[... lineage, mutations, locations]<br />
[Duchamp's Large Glass corrected]"
wittgenstein  art  duckrabbit  marcelduchamp  rodcorp  1997  lineage  mutations  josephjastrow  humor  ducks  rabbits  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
International Philosophy Sketch from Monty Python
"The Germans playing 4-2-4, Leibniz in goal, back four Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer and Schelling, front-runners Schlegel, Wittgenstein, Nietzsche and Heidegger, and the mid-field duo of Beckenbauer and Jaspers. Beckenbauer obviously a bit of a surprise there."
humor  philosophy  football  satire  film  montypython  wittgenstein  kant  nietzsche  heidegger  hegel  leibniz  plato  socrates  aristotle  archimedes  sophocles  ancientgreece  soccer  sports  futbol  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
Core77 | Design Arena | ideas
"This story illustrates the macro and micro connections we all have via Frank, a 35 yr old Chicagoan.<br />
Told by a high school professor, aiming to help people understand exponential and network thinking, this is the story of Frank. Frank is a 35 year-old man living in the suburbs of Chicago in 1978. His story is a common one that helps illustrate the macro and micro connections we all have as human beings on planet earth. The seemingly ordered connections Frank has in his life are questioned as something disrupts the order of things - leaving us all to ponder how linear connections are. What role does chaos and fate play in determining how we connect to people, places and things in this world?"
eames  poweroften  core77  humor  hierarchy  scale  micro  macro  chicago  networks  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
Rahm Emanuel (MayorEmanuel) on Twitter
"@MayorEmanuel was a satirical Twitter account that turned the 2011 Chicago Mayoral Election into real-time literature. From making snow angels on the frozen ice of Lake Michigan, to dancing with the ghost of Curtis Mayfield, to its emotional climax at the edge of space-time itself, the Tweets of @MayorEmanuel offered a highly profane, hilariously surreal--and, at times oddly moving--look at this historic election, this larger-than-life persona, redemption, sacrifice, and the lasting bonds of both friendship and civic pride. This archive offers the original Tweets in chronological order and with contextual @replies where possible. Tweets authored by @dansinker."
danielsinker  humor  politics  blogs  twitter  rpg  quaxelrod  mayoremanuel  rahmemanuel  2011  2010  chicago  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
One night President Obama and his wife Michelle... - The birds and the Lees.
"One night President Obama and his wife Michelle decided to do something out of routine and go for a casual dinner at a restaurant that wasn’t too luxurious. When they were seated, the owner of the restaurant asked the president’s secret service if he could please speak to the First Lady in private. They obliged and Michelle had a conversation with the owner. Following this conversation President Obama asked Michelle, “Why was he so interested in talking to you.” She mentioned that in her teenage years, he had been madly in love with her. President Obama then said, “So if you had married him, you would now be the owner of this lovely restaurant,” to which Michelle responded, “No. If I had married him, he would now be the President.”"
michelleobama  barackobama  women  power  humor  love  influence  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
Revealing the Man Behind @MayorEmanuel - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic
"It was the best fake Twitter account ever, deftly satirizing Rahm Emanuel, and elevating the Tweet and the f-word to the level of literature. But the mystery writer was never revealed - until now"<br />
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"That moment was both when we caught the first glimmer of intelligence smoldering in the mayor. Not just anyone quotes Mamet's American Buffalo back at FakeDavidMamet. And maybe that quote could be seen as the key to @MayorEmanuel's twisted narrative. It's only tweets, unless they're motherfucking true.<br />
<br />
Of course, nothing he said ever actually happened. But crazily enough, a fake account sputtering out 140-character jabs in the voice of a lampooned major political figure somehow tunneled to wherever it is that the realest reality is kept and pulled it out, soaked with beer, covered in celery salt, and laced with profanity. His tweets were true like a joke or a dream or a three-chord song about sniffing glue."
twitter  politics  socialmedia  @mayoremanuel  chicago  humor  alexismadrigal  literature  microblogging  mayoremanuel  danielsinker  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
Superfamous - Folkert Gorter
"Disclaimer: As you read this, you do not really see the pixels, the screen, your hands, and the surroundings, but an internal and three-dimensional image that reproduces them almost exactly and that is constructed by your brain. The photons emitted by your screen strike the retina of your eyes, which transform them into electrochemical information; the optic nerves relay this information to the visual cortex at the back of the head, where a cascade-like network of nerve cells separates the input into categories (form, color, movement, depth, etc.).<br />
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How the brain goes about reuniting these sets of categorized information into a coherent image is still a mystery. This also means that the neurological basis of consciousness is unknown. (source = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cosmic_Serpent )"
design  portfolio  webdesign  neuroscience  folkertgorter  losangeles  perception  images  imageprocessing  eyes  brain  humor  consciousness  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
How much time is wasted in your meetings?
Do you feel like your life is wasted in useless meetings? No worries, just look around, count the number of people, guess the average salary (doesn't have to be that precise), type in the values and turn your laptop screen towards everyone else. For added effect, put it on the projector.
money  statistics  counter  meetings  wastedtime  wastedmoney  calculator  humor  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
The Last Hours of @MayorEmanuel « Snarkmarket
"…here is the stunning conclusion to the story of @MayorEmanuel. He won the election and as predicted by Mayor Daley, vanished into a time vortex in order to save the multiverse.<br />
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I’ve also been boning up on my @MayorEmanuel backstory, & man, it is totally batshit in the best possible way. There are layers and layers to this thing that I couldn’t even guess at, and a few I’m probably still missing. In short, the anonymous author(s) of the thread have been building towards this science-fiction/comic-book resolution of the story for a while now, first planting the seeds months ago, then grinding them up like fine celery salt. <br />
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You can read a quick-&-dirty PDF of all of @MayorEmanuel’s tweets …assembled by @najuu…I’m not Storifying the whole thing, because 1) Twitter’s archives have a hard time going back that far in the Storify interface & 2) even if they did, I’m not stupid. But I would like to do my small part to gather the limbs of Osiris just here at the end."
timcarmody  rahmemanuel  mayoremanuel  chicago  writing  fiction  multiverse  snarkmarket  humor  realitystretching  politics  storytelling  thenewstorytelling  storify  2011  elections  @mayoremanuel  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
The Two Mayors « Snarkmarket
"Since Emanuel announced he was running for office, he’s been joined by a delightfully funny and foul-mouthed shadow on Twitter calling himself @MayorEmanuel…combines a kind of exaggeration of the known qualities of the real Rahm Emanuel…with a fully-realized, totally internal world of characters and events that has little to do with the real world and everything to do with the comic parallel universe @MayorEmanuel inhabits.<br />
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…The idea is that if we strip back the secrecy and public image to something so impolitic, so unlikely, we might arrive at something approximating the truth…<br />
Yesterday, however, @MayorEmanuel outdid himself. He wrote an extended, meandering narrative of the day before the primary that took the whole parallel Rahm Emanuel thing to a different emotional, comic, cultural place entirely. It even features a great cameo by friend of the Snark Alexis Madrigal. The story is twisting, densely referential, far-ranging — and surprisingly, rather beautiful."
chicago  twitter  rahmemanuel  @mayoremanuel  mayoremanuel  timcarmody  storify  alternateuniverse  humor  snarkmarket  writing  fiction  realitystretching  elections  politics  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
What are the Habits of Mind? | Institute For Habits of Mind
"Habits of Mind are dispositions that are skillfully and mindfully employed by characteristically intelligent, successful people when they are confronted with problems, the solution to which are not immediately apparent.

The Habits of Mind as identified by Costa and Kallick are:

Persisting
Thinking and Communicating with Clarity and Precision
Managing Impulsivity
Gathering Data Through all Senses
Listening with Understanding and Empathy
Creating, imagining and Innovation
Thinking Flexibly
Responding with Wonderment and Awe
Thinking about Thinking (Metacognition)
Taking Responsible Risks
Striving for Accuracy
Finding Humor
Questioning and Posing Problems
Thinking Interdependently
Applying Past Knowledge to New Situations
Remaining Open to Continuous Learning"
thinking  habits  habitsofmind  mind  teaching  tcsnmy  learning  education  lcproject  flexibility  risktaking  humor  creativity  imagination  impulsivity  impulse-control  persistence  clarity  passion  communication  empathy  datamining  wonderment  wonder  wonderdeficit  accuracy  questioning  problemsolving  independence  lifelonglearning  history  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
Drill and Kill: Educating Zombies: Hard Data on Parenting & Teaching
"Hard Data on Parenting & Teaching"
humor  graphs  infographics  charts  data  parenting  teaching  schools  education  cupcakes  grandparents  youth  generations  time  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
Mr. Fish, Cartoonist - Truthdig
politics  humor  cartoons  dwaynebooth  mr.fish  anarchy  anarchism  truthdig  activism  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
The Great Gatsby - For Nes
games  literature  nintendo  humor  thegreatgatsby  classideas  videogames  gaming  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
Dissertation Haiku
"Dissertations are long and boring. By contrast, everybody likes haiku. So why not write your dissertation as a haiku? Please email yours (along with your name, institution, a 1-2 sentence text description of your work, and any URL you'd like your name linked to) to dissertationhaiku@gmail.com."
poetry  writing  humor  academia  dissertations  haiku  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
The Malcolm Gladwell Book Generator
books  humor  generator  malcolmgladwell  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
Random Exhibition Title Generator
generator  fun  art  exhibitions  humor  curation  curating  titles  randomizer  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
Adult Principles, from JPBarlow - Miguel de Icaza
"Be patient; Don’t badmouth: Assign responsibility, not blame. Say nothing of another you wouldn't say to him; Never assume motives of others are, to them, less noble than yours are; Expand your sense of the possible; Don’t trouble yourself w/ matters you cannot change; Don't ask more of others than you can deliver; Tolerate ambiguity; Laugh at yourself frequently; Concern yourself w/ what is right rather than who is right; Try not to forget that, no matter how certain, you might be wrong; Remember your life belongs to others as well. Don't risk it frivolously; Never lie to anyone for any reason;  Learn the needs of those around you & respect them; Avoid pursuit of happiness. Seek to define your mission & pursue that; Reduce your use of 1st personal pronoun; Praise at least as often as you disparage; Admit your errors freely & quickly; Become less suspicious of joy; Understand humility; Remember love forgives everything; Foster dignity; Live memorably; Love yourself; Endure"
johnperrybarlow  life  philosophy  principles  certainty  ambiguity  forgiveness  wisdom  howto  love  selflessness  empathy  happiness  humor  possibility  responsibility  respect  humility  patience  blame  motivation  nobility  tolerance  laughter  uncertainty  dignity  endurance  understanding  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
This will not stay in Vegas - Vegas gift wife | Ask MetaFilter
[The long Version is funny.]<br />
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"SHORT VERSION:- Leave note: "MORE SOAP PLEASE" and $5 bill in bathroom- Tip housekeeping staff, ask "MORE SOAP PLEASE, ROOM #xxxxxx"- Store soap in in-room safe- Be persistent- 100 bars of Vegas soap, scored in Vegas fashion, makes for a great gift. Two bars? Meh."
life  fun  humor  vegas  lasvegas  metafilter  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
The Most Emailed 'New York Times' Article Ever | The Awl
Brilliant! Just a taste:<br />
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"At Yael Farms, Anna gets plenty of exercise. She spends the day herding ibex, drawing water from a well, and moving heavy stones. After a Deuteronomy-friendly dinner of figs, unleavened bread and honey-drizzled ibex, she practices her Mandarin. Like many of the ibex farms sprouting up across the northeastern United States, Yael offers an intensive Chinese-language immersion course.<br />
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“We speak Chinese here,” says Jones, the farm's co-owner. “It’s just smart business.” Foreign policy analysts like Wilbur Jenkins, a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, think entrepreneurs like Jones have the right idea. “In China, children are being taught English in utero,” Jenkins says. “American teenagers better start catching up.”"
humor  nytimes  satire  writing  parenting  elitism  elite  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
Man Waiting Until Parents Die Before Doing A Single Thing That Makes Him Happy | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
"Terlaine reportedly has a long history of neglecting his own sense of happiness in favor of what he thinks will please—or at the very least not disappoint—his parents. In direct opposition to his own personal hopes and desires, Terlaine has talked himself out of such actions as skiing, buying a video-game system, traveling with friends to a beach house on the coast, and taking a cooking class he worried his father would consider a waste of money."
humor  theonion  parenting  generations  guilt  identity  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
IFC's "Portlandia": Regional Comedy at Its Best - Newsweek
"The Pacific Northwest: the most tragically idealistic place on earth, where everything must have a greater good, even if it makes your life hell. It’s with a bit of that mentality—and a lot of love—that Fred Armisen (of SNL) and Carrie Brownstein (of now-defunct Portland rock band Sleater-Kinney) introduce America to the absurdity of Portland, Ore.: one of the most educated, environmentally-friendly and, of course, whitest cities around, where flannel will always be in fashion, and guerrilla knitting is the sport of choice. With impeccable accuracy, their new comedy series, Portlandia—which premieres on IFC this week —makes humor out of all the quirks that make Portland, well, Portland: a ragingly-feminist independent bookstore, an organic farm where “free love” is harvested, a fair-trade restaurant where each animal on the menu has a name and bio. “I like to describe Portland as a city with a lot of self-esteem, filled with people with a lot of self-doubt,” says Brownstein…"
portland  humor  tv  television  cascadia  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
Chaos Theory at Play in the Middle School: A Redeeming Vision | Santa Fe Leadership Center
"…rarely do I make it to the end of day & look back at a purposeful, sustained march…In spite of ability to adapt to unexpected & turn surprise into teachable moment, teachers…are often uncomfortable w/ change & uncertainty…there may be something inherent about middle schoolers that requires, even dictates, a more flexible, free flowing style of management…There is probably no age group in a greater state of flux & transformation…In some ways, life in MS may mirror…world of quantum physics.…random events that seem to defy pattern & determinism…relationships btwn students, teacher & parents give meaning to our action…in seemingly endless series of encounters…saving grace, redeeming motif that makes it all worth it is the quality of the relationships & one’s ability to alter & affect life in MS by the humanity, kindness & humor one brings to each new crisis/encounter/situation."
middleschool  cv  teaching  learning  quantumphysics  chaostheory  predictablity  messiness  tomrosenbluth  relationships  tcsnmy  lcproject  slowlearning  slow  flexibility  growth  adolescence  pedagogy  flow  structure  planning  education  unpredictability  humor  grace  kindness  connectivism  connections  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
YouTube - Russell Peters - Beating Your Kids
"HUMOR: Politically correct people. Please DON"T watch this. Final word on Asian education" — http://twitter.com/#!/vwadhwa/status/26114051662680064
parenting  humor  comedy  india  immigration  immigrant  us  russellpeters  vivekwadhwa  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
Five Emotions Invented By The Internet « Thought Catalog
"The state of being ‘installed’ at a computer or laptop for an extended period of time without purpose, characterized by a blurry, formless anxiety undercut with something hard like desperation."
psychology  internet  humor  emotions  identity  cv  anxiety  stress  via:britta  time  busyness  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
Surviving the World - Lesson 858 - Death Of Reading
lordoftheflies  via:lukeneff  tcsnmy  reading  books  classideas  humor  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
Boring 2010 | A boring conference taking place in London on December 11th
"Boring 2010 is taking part on December 11th in London.<br />
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A series of people will talk about boring things to a roomful of people."
culture  boredom  london  conferences  humor  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
Boredom Enthusiasts Discover the Pleasures of Understimulation - WSJ.com
"Boring 2010 is the handiwork of James Ward, 29 years old, who works for a DVD distribution and production company. In his other life, as the envoy of ennui, Mr. Ward edits a blog called "I Like Boring Things." He is also co-founder of the Stationery Club, whose 45 members meet occasionally to discuss pens, paper clips and Post-it Notes.<br />
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For another of his projects, Mr. Ward over the past 18 months has visited 160 London convenience stores and made careful notes about a popular chocolate bar called Twirl, including the product's availability, price and storage conditions. He publishes the details online.<br />
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Boredom has become a serious subject for scientific inquiry. For example, a 25-year study of British civil servants published earlier this year found that some people really can be bored to death: People who complain about "high levels" of boredom in their lives are at double the risk of dying from a stroke or heart disease, the study concluded."
boredom  humor  culture  politics  psychology  jamesward  conferences  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
Thought of a Day
"People have been passing it around as "Venn diagram of the day"…sad, because it didn't show up on Monday. I first saw it last Thursday, pointed out by Reddit link…original image…is an imgur upload with no attribution at all. (…If you know who created this thing, please throw me a tweet.)

…now it's been linked by Gruber & Chart Porn & Huffington & Laughing Squid & probably other places but I'm tired of Google for a few seconds. Like I said, it's sad, & one reason is that the joke is funny but it fails to get at the real problem w/ this whole TSA nonsense, which is that it's nonsense. It serves no purpose except to make air travel slower & more uncomfortable.

But the true sadness is that this image isn't a Venn diagram, as you can easily see:

Venn diagrams map out entities. That is, things; in this case, people. A region is a set of people. There may be people in that central area, but I doubt it. (If you are a TSA prostitute with a medical degree, please throw me a tweet.)"
visualization  diagrams  humor  tsa  ontology  venndiagrams  security  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
Drunk History on Funny or Die
"an actor or comedian gets drunk and then tells the story of an incident from history....." [as described by Katie Day]
history  video  humor  comedy  classideas  teaching  michaelcera  willferrell  jackblack  paulschneider  johncreilly  dannymcbride  via:thelibrarianedge  storytelling  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
Teach Parents Tech
"Every December, millions of tech-savvy young people descend on their homes only to arrive to a long list of tech support issues that their parents need help with. A few of us at Google thought there had to be a better way that would save us all a few hours each December...<br />
The result of our brainstorm was TeachParentsTech.org, a site that allows you to select any number of simple tech support videos to send to mom, dad or uncle Vinnie. The site is not perfect and hardly covers all the tech support questions you may be asked, but hopefully it’s a start!"
google  howto  technology  tutorial  tech  techsupport  parents  teaching  edtech  web  online  internet  teachparentstech  communication  media  search  information  basics  computing  humor  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
The man who wore my password - Neven Mrgan's tumbl
"So that really long, really tricky password shouldn’t be on a sweaty dude’s shirt in a pizza shop, it really shouldn’t. Yet there it was. For a few seconds I entertained the idea that I had entered a Matrix/Inception world where people and signs were basically UI elements. I pondered tapping my password, and felt a little disappointed in The Architect for showing it in plain text, no bullet-point obfuscation or anything.<br />
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Then rationality kicked in and I figured I’d work my way backwards: how had I picked my non-word, non-pet password in the first place? My three passwords are sounds that for one reason or another get lodged in my brain; this makes them impossible to forget, though not so easy to figure out independently."
nevenmrgan  passwords  memory  humor  rationality  security  subconscious  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
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