March 2010
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WatchDorie Greenspan Talks Lionel Poilâne on CBS Sunday Morning [video] – Eat Me Daily
do more things with your hands.
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“The psychologist Ellen Langer once had subjects engage in a betting game against...”
– The psychology of overconfidence : The New Yorker (via slantback)
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Sinatra's Rules →
bunch:
1. It takes two hands to put on a hat the right way: Back brim curled up, front tugged down to a couple of inches above the right brow. 2. Never wear brown at night. Never. 3. There’s no excuse for brown shoes past sundown…. Or white shoes. Or anything gray, unless it’s deep charcoal. Or blue, unless it’s midnight blue. In fact, let’s keep it simple: after dark, men should wear...
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Unknown number: Back in the USA!
Me: New phone, who is this and where were you visiting? Did you have fun? Did you bring me anything?
Unknown number: This is Ted. Iraq. no. no.
Me: My bad...welcome back dude
Ted: No worries, rangers suck huh?
Me: Oh yeah
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Good Decisions, Bad Behavior →
Every incentive disincentivizes another behavior.
side effects from trying to turn everything into a game or buying something “green.”
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The Gumball 3000 →
adamwritesgood:
The Gumball 3000, the cross-country car race for rich people with fast cars, has a YouTube page.
hey, i like fast cars.
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“If you create (or market) should you be chasing the people who click and leave?...”
– Seth’s Blog: Driveby culture and the endless search for wow (via fred-wilson)
NO. IT IS NOT. PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.
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Alex Ratcliffe-Lee: Synesthesia →
Synesthesia (also spelled synæsthesia or synaesthesia, plural synesthesiae or synaesthesiae)—from the Ancient Greek σύν (syn), “together,” and αἴσθησις (aisthēsis), “sensation“—is a neurologically-based condition in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to…
file under things you didn’t know about your brother.
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“The nearest kind of association is not mere perceptual cognition, but, rather, a...”
– Martin Heidegger (via bobulate)
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The case for context →
These terms I’ve been using – “intellectual framework,” “systemic information,” etc. – this is what I mean when I say “context.” I’ve pitched you on the consumer benefits of context, but information creators are also slowly beginning to come around to the long-term ROI of delivering context as well, for several reasons. For one thing, our information becomes much more valuable and much more...
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“I feel like there’s this tension that goes on in business and especially in...”
– Steve Portigal, from a fascinating discussion transposed here. (via chrbutler) (via slantback)
left, without comment, while i - quite frankly - think about it.
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Top 10 Best Roadtripping Songs
bbook:
Looking forward to summer already… can’t ya tell?
1. Sweet Emotion// Aerosmith 2. Hotel California// The Eagles 3. Love You Madly// Cake 4. Where Nobody Knows// Kings of Leon 5. Young Folks// Peter Bjorn & John 6. Run Around// Blues Traveler 7. Ramble On// Led Zeppelin 8. China Girl// David Bowie 9. Love and Memories// OAR 10. Slow Ride// Foghat
today was that day people in the...
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The Newsonomics of time-on-site →
$3.42 vs 10 cents. The Times is monetizing its time on site 34 times better than Facebook.
definitely click-through to this. social networks are blowing news sites out of the water in terms of time spent on site but, it seems, aren’t doing a fantastic job monetizing it.
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“Regardless, Pollan’s book brought up many questions and thoughts. He speaks of...”
– Alex Ratcliffe-Lee: In Defense of Food
when was the last time you saw proper MLA citation in a blog post? my fam is winning at the bloggin’ this week.
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Enhanced Salsa →
But aside from making me really hungry, the video also made me think of how certain media is presented to allow for an experience, to make the technology behind it disappear. That oh-so-smooth transition from “video on a video hosting website” to “Salsa Show!” was clutch to making me view this as more than a 40-second clip about a vegetable I really couldn’t care less about and something I wanted...
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Watch Danny Kahneman Talks Memory at TED
Nobel-winning econo-psychologist talks experiences vs. memory at TED 2010
the average human present? 3 seconds.