May 2012
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Test Post 2
Testing my Tumblr to Twitter connection.
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Do people want to be monitored while they're at...
thisistheverge:
A night on the town with SceneTap
SceneTap, the app that lets you see what bars are full, and what percentage of the patrons are female, had a PR meltdown when it tried to launch last week in San Francisco. There were the negative stories about its “creepy” face recognition technology. Threats of boycotts on bars that used it. Merchants backing away from the app in horror. And...
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Test Post 1
Testing my Tumblr to Twitter connection. Test 1.
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“[Some years ago, a child was asked
whether he liked radio or television best.]...”
– Jack Gilbert, from “A Man in Black and White” (via the-final-sentence)
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“My dear fellow, what’s this about? Machine guns? Is there no government?”
– Made by Saddam Hussein during a raid to capture him after a failed attempt to overthrow the government of president Abdul Rahman Arif in September of 1964. From the book “Saddam: The Secret Life” by Con Coughlin,Pan Books 2002.
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“I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before...”
– President Kennedy on America’s aim to land a man on the Moon, made 25th May 1961. “Spaceflight: The complete story from Sputnik to Shuttle and beyond.” Published by Dorling Kindersley Limited, Great Britain, 2007.
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True: Conflict Can Sometimes Be The Catalyst For...
The second world war is an example of just how influential conflict can be in the creative process. Shortly before Germany’s surrender to the allied forces, it began to put its faith in a newly developed and lethal weapon called the V-2 which was a rocket that could land in many parts of Western Europe, bringing a sordid devastation with it. The plans did not amount to much as the Third...
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Creative obstruction: How Howard Schultz saved... →
Guess how Mr Schultz got his groove back at Starbucks: xeniosthrasyvoulou:
I just finished reading Howard Schultz’s book ‘Onward’ in which he tells the story of how he returned to the CEO position at Starbucks around a decade after stepping down to save it from its downward spiral.
It’s an exhilarating read… and a story of how – once again – a great leader…
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Creative obstruction: “I’m worth a billion but I... →
xeniosthrasyvoulou:
Everyone is asking if we are in a tech bubble. I think we are not. But I also think that there is a bigger problem at play. In the race to be the next big thing we forgot that companies exist to fulfill a need. We got too consumed with our own numbers, our growth and hockey stick curves and…
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“Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the...”
– The Summer Day, Mary Oliver
(via xeniosthrasyvoulou)
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“Eric Schmidt went on to outline the idea that there should be more support for...”
– Eric Schmidt Talks Division, Education and Internet Futures (via thenextweb)
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“Young people themselves should focus less of their expectation on marriage as...”
– William Gayley Simpson (via eugenicist)
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The Top 10 Tear-jerkers of all Time
scribnerbooks:
1. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
2. The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
3. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
4. Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
5. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
6. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
7. My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
8. The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
9. Charlotte’s Web by E B White
10. To Kill a Mockingbird...
seekar: nikola tesla is fascinating →
seekar:
geeks stay up all night disassembling the world so they they can put it back together with new features. they tinker and fix things that aren’t broken. geeks abandon the world around them because they’re busy soldering together a new one. they obsess and, in many cases, they suffer.
over one…
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Why Nikola Tesla Was the Greatest Geek Who Ever... →
imaginaryinternetfriend:
This turned my entire elementary school education on its head.
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Creative obstruction: Why America is still the... →
Here what this business guru has to say about taking your risks in the right environment: xeniosthrasyvoulou:
I just spent two weeks in New York. It was supposed to be a very non-descript trip, without a concrete purpose. I went there to attend a few tech conferences, meet a few people I had connected to via email and wanted to meet, and get a local vibe of the new hot tech scene that everyone...
