http://www.dogwork.com/owfo8/ is a slow motion video of an owl flying at the camera, slowing, and grabbing hold of something. (It may be landing – I can’t tell for sure – but it doesn’t look like a landing to me.) Basically awesome.
Slow Motion Video of Owl
October 23rd, 2011The Internet (per The IT Crowd)
September 14th, 2011Wait a minute. The Elders of the Internet? The Elders of the Internet… know who I am?!?!
Rational Basis for Altruism
September 13th, 2011I’ve sent this to a number of people individually… So it’s about time I just posted a link to http://www.radiolab.org/2010/dec/14/one-good-deed-deserves-another/ and a firm recommendation that you listen. It’s a Radiolab story about altruism and evolution, rational good behavior, etc. I’m especially fond of the bit about the prisoner’s dilemma simulation, in which both Jesus and Lucifer are defeated by Tit-for-Tat.
All religions think they’re right…
September 13th, 2011but they’re just lacking perspective.
Information Waste
September 2nd, 2011Something I personally have struggled to come to terms with, being on the border of two generations… Captured well by the product/marketing brilliance that is Seth Godin:
Back home, missing a TV show was out of the question. If you didn’t see this episode of Mannix or Batman, it was likely you’d never get a chance, ever again.
And so we came to treat incoming data as precious. A lost email was a calamity. Reading everything in your RSS feed was essential. What if I miss something?
A new generation, one that grew up with a data surplus, is coming along. To this cohort, it’s no big deal to miss a tweet or ten, to delete a blog from your reader or to not return a text or even a voice mail. The new standard for a vacation email is, “When I get back, I’m going to delete all the email in my box, so if it’s important, please re-send it next week.”
This is what always happens when something goes from scarce to surplus. First we bathe in it, then we waste it.
