Online Book Rental. Cheap Books. Borrow new releases and classics at BookSwim. – Yes! Netflix for books!
How the Wright brothers tested wind drag before building their planes – benefits to owning a bike shop!
wyndowe – iinnovate episode 3: David Kelley, founder of IDEO – “[Typical] offices are particularly bad, about status, you know, like who has the big office in the corner. I suggest if you were a business owner, take the crummiest office in the place, then you
Will Wright buys collections of things and then gives them away – “I’m uncollecting. I buy collections on ebay, and I disperse them out to people again. I have to be like an entropic force to collectors, otherwise all of this stuff will get sorted.”
“Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.” – William Hazlitt
Eating Italian in San Francisco – Gridskipper, the Urban Travel Guide – Looks pretty good…
Ming the Mechanic: Learning to Learn – “It’s the old story of a human being able to pay attention to just 5-7 things at the same time…I think we’re actually a lot better wired than we readily think. Your sub-conscious mind deals with millions of variables quite well. Your intuition does great with complexity. You…more
The flip side of Kenneth Boulding/Scott Adams/Spinoza’s idea that we are engaged in building a greater intelligence? That we might be part of a simulation for someone who got there first.
The Books of The Bible | Home Page = “The Books of The Bible is a groundbreaking new presentation of the Scriptures designed to accurately reflect the biblical authors’ intentions.” Emphasizes the reading of “whole books” by reordering the books, removing chapter/verse numbers, printing in full-page-width and more.