Reading Time: < 1 minute Adrian Savage of Slow Leadership recently published an article on lifehack.org. Like most articles on lifehack.org, this one has its share of good advice. In particular: Take whatever time you need to discover what matters to you most Success isn’t simply a matter of money, power, or prestige. You could gain all of those and…
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Signals vs. Noise recently posted an article: Is the web killing our culture?. In this article, the guys from 37 Signals discuss a new book from Andrew Keen titled The Cult of the Amateur: How today’s Internet is killing our culture. Keen sees the web, and “Web 2.0” in particular, as technology that enables mass…
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Information Aesthetics recently posted about a new music visualization interface from Burst Labs. And, here’s a quick summary from NotCot: “The Discover interface of Burst Labs is mesmerizingly brilliant ~ and there’s a melody for every mood you could possibly feel or imagine, and truly one of the most refreshing flashy user experiences i’ve encountered…
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Last week I started adding SpeedLinks to this blog. I’ve been looking for a good excuse to experiment with Yahoo Pipes for some time now. So, I wanted to find out if I could take the concept of the original Perl script I found, and create a pipe to do all the work (with little,…
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Reading Time: 2 minutes I’m sometimes amazed at the sites that make the del.icio.us popular list. I enjoyed the following entry on Wikipedia: the Dunning-Kruger effect. The Dunning-Kruger effect is the phenomenon whereby people who have little knowledge systematically think that they know more than others who have much more knowledge. The phenomenon was rigorously demonstrated in a series…
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Reading Time: < 1 minute I’ve made some updates in the last couple days that I wanted to share. Fighting Spam Spam… the bane of my existence! Comment and Trackback spam has increased pretty drastically in the last few months. I’ve decided to enable a CAPTCHA on all comments. SpeedLinking I’ve taken a hint from the Integral Options Cafe, and…
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Make Magazine recently featured on article on how to create your own mind machine. “This weekend, learn how to hack your brain by making Mitch Altman’s Brain Machine! It flashes LEDs into your eyes and beeps sounds into your ears to make your brain waves sync up into beta, alpha, theta, and delta brainwaves! Mitch…
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Chuck Frey recently posted about an interesting application called WikiMindMap that represents Wikipedia entries in a mindmap format. WikiMindMap is a tool to browse easily and efficiently in Wiki content, inspired by the mindmap technique. Wiki pages in large public wiki’s, such as wikipedia, have become rich and complex documents. Thus, it is not allways…
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Last week was very memorable. Chantelle and I went on a week-long vacation, starting off in Las Vegas, staying in Sedona, and finally arriving at Kanab, Utah. The main purpose of the trip was to visit the Best Friends animal sanctuary in Kanab. Best Friends is the nation’s largest animal shelter for homeless animals, and…
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Reading Time: < 1 minute From Popular Mechanics: Microsoft has quietly been developing the first completely new computing platform since the PC — a project that was given the internal code name Milan. This past March, when the project was still operating on the down low, I became the first reporter invited inside these offices. My hosts politely threatened legal…
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