gladwell dot com / blowing up – amazing portrait of Taleb; “Taleb buys options because he is certain that, at root, he knows nothing, or, more precisely, that other people believe they know more than they do.”; the philosophy of “being the house” in the stock market, but over a long, long, period…you give up…more

Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s Home & Professional Page – interestingly, one of the few voices to acknowledge his own as well as others’ ignorance of the role luck plays in our successes; relates to our inability to recognize luck in our success (like Godin’s article in Fast Company); also how we misattribute stock rises and political…more

Ned Batchelder: Paul Rand’s geometry books – in which he writes: “mass communication = mass thinking; unanimity of thoughts = anonymity of ideas”

Viewmasters: the audience’s power over media’s message – the important thing is not what the intended use of or reaction to an item is; it’s what the audience’s use and reaction is.

DOM Inspector – for firefox, helps resolve CSS style conflicts/combinations

Mental Preparations for My First Race

While riding today, I realized that I’ve put a lot of pressure on myself to do well in the race this weekend. It’s dangerous to do so, because it is just my first race and it’s one that, despite my having successfully finished before, is on a course entirely ill-suited to me. So in classic…more

v i d e o g a l l e r y – crazy cycling clips, sounds like fun…

What You Should Know about XHTML 1.1 [dionidium.com] – perfect pastel colors and interesting article