(Final update to the story here ). Remember when that guy purposely hit me with his car, and then tried to run away but got caught? If not you can re-read my post from that day here . I can finally te
How To Fail Screw ups, disasters, misfires, flops. Why losing big can be a winning strategy. Accept Defeat: The Neuroscience of Screwing Up Stay in the Game: The Fall and Rise of Alec Baldwin Learn to Let Go: How Success Killed Duke Nukem Time Your Attack: Oracle’s Lost Revolution My Greatest…
My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. One August morning nearly two decades ago, m
Find a Recipe Advanced Search Featured Content Quick & Easy Unstuffed Shells Are the Easy Weeknight Dinner You Need When You’d Rather Watch TV Than Cook Jarrett Melendez View “Unstuffed Shells Are the
A crewman on a commercial tuna-fishing boat was the first to spot it: something shiny and metallic in the water off the ship's bow. The crewman alerted the navigator, and the 280-foot San Nikunau slig
The physical book is something designers get. It’s got a lot going for it, not the least of which is the fact that it’s physical . The boundaries are there, right before us. No guess work is necessary
Tim fries up a challenge to the Colonel. guardian.co.uk Woody Allen once opined that sex is like pizza - even when it's rubbish it's pretty damn good. I feel the same way about fried chicken. The trut
Posterous Spaces Posterous Spaces is no longer available Thanks to all of my @posterous peeps. Y'all made this a crazy ride and it was an honor and pleasure working with all of y'all. Thanks to all of
In Optimizing HTML , I mentioned that state of HTML minifiers is rather crude at the moment . We have a large variety of JS and CSS minification tools, but almost no HTML ones. This is actually quite
Yesterday, for the first day of the ITP 4-in-4 , I organized a trip up to the Retro Arcade Museum in Beacon, NY. The museum is filled with arcade cabinets from the 60s and 70s, most of which are elect
The following correction was printed in the Observer's For the record column, Sunday 26 September 2010 Dr Timothy Church is at the Pennington Biomedical Research Centre of Louisiana State University,
Eight Habits of Highly Effective 21st Century Teachers By Andrew Churches What are the characteristics we would expect to see in a successful 21st century educator? We know 21st century educators are
I'm not promising to submit myself to everything I require
students to undergo, but I'm going to eat a certain amount of my
own dogfood. I'll begin by declaring my own teaching and learning
goals for this class.
I want to create the conditions for the class as a whole to make
something magical…
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by venkat on July 20, 2010
In the Hercule Poirot mystery Lord Edgeware Dies,
Poirot and his sidekick Hastings (the narrator) are discussing the
case.
“Eh bien.”
Poirot threw his head back, his eyes narrowed. He puffed out
smoke.
“Je me pose des
questions,” he said.
“Yes?” I said
eagerly.
“You…
Finally, a place where web developers blog.
Before you do anything else you should all read Jason’s
excellent article A Real Web Design Application. It’s an eloquently worded
plea for an application tailored specifically at screen
design. Jason asserts that the current crop of tools doesn’t
do a…
You’ve probably heard the cliched phrase “ If you build it, they will come. ” More importantly, I would like to counter that with an even more important cliched phrase “ If a tree falls in a forest an
Ok, so you’ve got your tools, you’ve got some lino, you’ve got some spare time, all you need is an image. I chose a photograph I took during the recent snowfalls. On the first night it started snowing
Beyond the 10,000 Hour Rule: Richard Hamming and the Messy Art of Becoming Great August 9th, 2010 · 61 comments What Makes Great Scientists Great? In March of 1986, an overflow audience of over 200 re
It was still shocking to M. how much a few wrong turns could change your life. She had graduated from Boston College with a degree in psychology, married at twenty-five, and had two children, a son an
While some have avoided using the term “addiction” in the context of natural compulsions such as uncontrolled sexuality, overeating, or gambling, let us consider current scientific evidence regarding the brain and addiction.
In my Denki feature last week, I mentioned that the studio has a singular approach to development, inspired more by stage practice, than by the usual grabbag of well-worn industry staples. There seem
by Stephen Tobolowsky Are you a subscriber to The Tobolowsky Files ? The podcast, a project of actor Stephen Tobolowsky -the youngs will know him as Sandy Ryerson on “Glee” and from “Heroes” and the o
In 1996, I jumped off a 350-foot-high bridge over a river gorge. I wanted to experience what it would be like to leap, head first, from a lethal height and hurtle toward my death. The death part itsel
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I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death. But nothing prepared me for the early morning last June when I came to consciousness feeling as if I were actually shackled to my own corp
The Misconception: Fines curb bad behavior.
The Truth: If you perceive the cost of a fine
as less than the social cost of the bad behavior, it will cause the
bad behavior to increase.
A day care center in Israel had a problem – late
parents.
Every week, about eight parents would keep the employees…
Albert 24,776 Topic Starter We Look for Carts to Make Us Go 39,937 posts Posted August 1, 2010 Halo, one of the decade's most renowned video game franchises, has finally found a home on the Atari 2600
Once a week , the staff at Hunch stops work a little early. They leave their computers and convene around sofas in the back of the office in New York’s Flatiron district. They crack some beers and crank up the music. And then they pull out the board games. Caterina Fake, Hunch’s chief product…
The iPhone SDK makes it fairly simple to build powerful
applications that can be deployed to millions of phones.
Actually writing the code for the application isn’t the
hard part most of the time, especially if you aren’t straying
too far off of the default widget library. Where I found…
On Wednesday, May 26, 2010, just after 2:30 p.m., the unthinkable happened: Apple became the largest company in the tech universe, and, after ExxonMobil, the second largest in the nation. For months,
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