Amphitheatre Pkwy to Vista Linda Ln – Google Maps – hmm…
I used to think that nimbleness meant only that when a new opportunity arose, you could start working on it immediately. But the ability to start doesn’t mean much without the ability to simultaneously stop doing what you were before. To be nimble, it’s more important to be able to stop doing things than to…more
NFB – Carts of Darkness – “In the picture-postcard community of North Vancouver, filmmaker Murray Siple follows men who have turned bottle-picking, their primary source of income, into the extreme sport of shopping cart racing.” More on YouTube.
“The Dancing Plague of 1518 was a case of dancing mania that occurred in Strasbourg, Alsace, France in July 1518. Numerous people took to dancing for days without rest, and over the period of about one month, most of the people died from heart attack, stroke, or exhaustion.” Huh. I especially like the prescription authorities…more
Stage 2 of next year’s Tour of California includes all my old stomping grounds…Tunitas Creek, Bonny Doon, Empire Grade. And it’s on a holiday too (President’s Day). Awesome!
Ah, the dilemma: “There’s a lot I want to experience, but not a lot I actually want to do.”
This video of a frozen pizza factory just keeps getting better and better as you watch. The pepperoni machine is my favorite.
Charter For Compassion :: projects – interesting crowdsourced effort to help unify the world’s religions…which of course reminds me of the similar effort written about in Dune…
A fantastic long article on the “used future” of Star Wars – ties together George Lucas, Jane Jacobs, Robert Morris, Jonathan Swift and more. The presentation is also excellent, in a side-scrolling page format with half the space dedicated to excellent pullquotes from related works. (via kk)
[Dune](http://books.google.com/books?id=gjJzHgAACAAJ) reminded me in many ways of [Anathem](http://ryskamp.org/brain/books/notes-from-anathem), as it is set in a world with 20,000 more years of history. It’s interesting to read stories of intelligent societies that have lived for hundreds of generations, especially since we have just 6000 years of history so far. What might our world look like with 20,000…more