Category: miscellaneous

  • Playing games

    Most insightful post I’ve read today day: Go Big Always – Productivity software should learn from game design. download without evidence free What if our current productivity software was a game. It would suck. We’d be asked to save the princess but not be able to see a map, where the other players are, or…

  • Letting 1,000 Leonardo’s bloom

    .!. This is one of those reports that ‘had me at hello’: The next ten years will see a re-emergance of artisans as an economic force I am only about halfway through the report (only could get in so much over lunch), but is a great read for anyone looking to get an overview of…

  • Kendall getting her ears pierced

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  • Finally – a practical application for a Stirling engine

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  • Etsy the new Ebay?

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  • The book that changed my (work) life

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  • Cincinnati in the news

    The question is why is it always bad? In my lifetime I can remember a few times when Cincinnati made the top of the national nightly news: Larry Flynt…enough said (just do search – CAUTION: NSFW) The Mapplethorpe photo exhibit…well, enough said again (same thing as the note above) When we won the 1990 World…

  • Everyone don your kimono

    ‘Cause it’s time to open up!  The media channels, tradition and non alike, have been flooded in the past week with major IT ecosystem leaders falling all over themselves to be open. First came Microsoft’s announcement free open season movie download must love dogs dvdrip that they were publishing 30,000 pages of documentation on their…

  • Why ebay feedback change is not the end of social production

    .!. A very deep and involving post from Kevin Kelly (no relation ;-)): Kevin Kelly — The Technium that is a much deeper explanation of why the change in the ebay feedback scoring engine is not the end of the social production world as the FT posited and Nick Carr supported. Adult supervision doesn’t mean…