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Today (May 29) is Manhattenhenge. One of two days every year when sunrise and sunset are exactly aligned with the Manhattan (New York City, New York, USA) street grid. Just a fun fact. > *“What will future civilizations thin...
“It is impossible to be unmoved by the juxtaposition of the eternal stone-faced warrior and the disheveled modern military wife-turned-widow, him rigid in his dress uniform, her on the floor in her blanket nest, wearing glasses and a baggy T-shirt, him nearly concealed by shadow while the pale blue light from the computer screen illuminates her like God’s own grace.” (from At War Blog)
I totally agree with Frank Bruni’s account of the Facebook’s IPO. It seems to me that if the current price of FB is pretty close to the offering price, then the bankers were doing their job. I mean, as I see it, their job is to open the stock at a price that’s as close as possible to it’s true pric...
Read more →I would love to see this trend accelerate: > “The five-year-old [Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship] program, [Wake Forest University’s] most popular minor, requires students to learn the practical aspects of starting a business. It is a sign of change in liberal-arts colleges, which are...
Read more →I can’t explain it but I was just scrolling around some pdf in Safari and it actually turned my world upside down (and inside out!) 
The other day I referenced an article questioning the motivation and effectiveness of large scale strategic planning exercises in universities today. In this vein I was interested to see this [art...
Read more →I have often been heard to say: “Ideas are Cheap”, by which I mean to say that my admiration goes more with the implementation, the making real and tangible, of an idea than the idea itself. It’s much easier to come up with something that would be cool and useful (“A solar powered ambulance”, “a ret...
Read more →I’ve been doing quite a bit of reading about social networks in preparation for the 2012 edition of my Brandeis University Course, “Web and Social Applications“. This morning I was preparing lecture notes for “Current Issues In Social Networks”....
Read more →I saw this in Marginal Revolution, who saw this in BrainPickings who got this somehow from [Bertrand Russell.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
Read more →A good article in the Atlantic about game designer Jonathan Blow. Interesting quote: > “I continued. “You’ve been chasing some deep form of understanding all your life, and what I think you’ve found is that quest...
Read more →Americans Elect got Tom Friedman to endorse their effort to get a third party presidential ballot in November. He wrote about it and convinced me too that it was a good idea. A month or two ago I started having misgivings and now, it seems like things are really turning sour for Americans Elect. A...
Read more →On Facebook you may see something like “George Harrison is watching a video on Socialcam” followed by a video. Beware because if you watch that video by clicking on it, ALL your friends will now see that you watched it too. On two occasions in the last few weeks, some pretty embarassing videos were watched by otherwise highly respectable people. Funny.
I came across a very provocative article about why and how universities seem to often get buried in a time consuming and torturous process of strategic planning. My experience in the private sector is that it is very easy to get...
Read more →A SPANISH Teacher was explaining to her class that in Spanish, unlike English, nouns are designated as either masculine or feminine. ‘House’ for instance, is feminine: ‘la casa.’ ‘Pencil,’ however, is masculine: ‘el lapiz.’ A student asked, ‘What gender is ‘computer’?’ Instead of giving the answer...
Read more →An interesting article by David Brooks in the New York Times commenting on the views of the always controversial Peter Thiel. [Why is he controversial? Because he h[as a grant program for students who are so passion...
Read more →This book looks good: “Founder’s Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the pitfalls that can sink a startup”. I came across it in the “Startup Lessons Learned” Blog, which may be the best blog about leann startups. This excerpt talks about a common scenario with startups, where the founders assume th...
Read more →If you are a theatre fan I strongly recommend a play I just saw last night. It’s called “Luck of the Irish”. From a review on Boston.com: > “… It’s one of numerous instances in Greenidge’s superb, beautif...
Read more →Listen, I love the New York Times. I read it cover to cover (or pixel to pixel) every day and have it delivered in dead-tree format to my doorstep each morning. But so often I come across an awkward sentence which I have to read and re-read several times to understand. I’ve been noticing this ...
Read more →David Brooks of the New York Times, in an article about (my interpretation) the limits of idealism: > “It’s hard not to feel inspired by all these idealists, but their service religion does ...
Read more →Ok, I don’t agree with all of “Don’t work. Avoid telling the truth. Be hated. Love someone”: > “Resist the temptation to get a job. Instead, play. Find something you enjoy doing. Do it. Over and over again. You will become good at it...
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