November 2009
20 posts
Halloween costumes
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Halloween costumes
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October 2009
41 posts
5yo carved his own pumpkin. Came out great.
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Hooray! First year everyone helps carve the...
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USA and UK moderately risky for climate...
Deutsche Bank has digested climate policies of 109 countries to assess the risk for investors. While Italy is labeled most risky, climate related investments in both USA and UK would be of “moderate” risk. Both countries are hampered by a lack of so-called feed-in energy tariffs, which can be used to support development of renewable energy technologies. “If you’ve got a feed-in...
Visual Comparison of Web Site Privacy Policies...
via commondataproject.org This is amusing. Also meaningless. Posted via web from park3’s posterous | Comment »
Dept of Happy News: Radical Cleric Calls on...
Fazazi wrote that opposition to Germany’s military involvement in Afghanistan must only be expressed through peaceful demonstrations. He added: “The strength of an argument does not lie in a rifle bullet.” He also urges Muslims not to live off state benefits. “It is better for a Muslim to live from the work of his hands and the sweat of his brow because that mouthful is...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-25) →
M. Ward (18)
Yo La Tengo (13)
Grizzly Bear (12)
The Clash (11)
Iron & Wine (11)
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Finland Most Prosperous Nation measured by health,...
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Apple tree in our backyard bore fruit. First time...
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-18) →
The Feelies (33)
Placebo (19)
Norah Jones (15)
Hüsker Dü (14)
Yo La Tengo (13)
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Really Happy about Google's Data Liberation Front...
In the case of Docs in particular, there’s something great we’re working on at the moment. Right now you can get your docs out one at a time. We’re working on a way for you to be able to select multiple docs at once, choose whatever format you’d like — ODF or MS Word or whatever — and our server will convert everything for you, create a Zip file and stream it down to you. (Brian says this feature...
Really Happy about Google's Data Liberation Front...
In the case of Docs in particular, there’s something great we’re working on at the moment. Right now you can get your docs out one at a time. We’re working on a way for you to be able to select multiple docs at once, choose whatever format you’d like — ODF or MS Word or whatever — and our server will convert everything for you, create a Zip file and stream it down to you. (Brian says this feature...
Long Tail of Search Results
Turns out, there are benefits which go beyond that. A recent and thought-provoking Science article (“Electronic Publishing and the Narrowing of Science and Scholarship”) shows that as library search has gotten vastly more efficient with the advent of digitized libraries and online search tools, the depth of scientific research has suffered. Scholars in a variety of fields tend to...
Theory on Economic Collapse: the Smart Guys went...
“Two things happened. One is that the amount of money that could be made on Wall Street with hedge fund and private equity operations became just mind-blowing. At the same time, college was getting so expensive that people from reasonably prosperous families were graduating with huge debts. So even the smart guys went to Wall Street, maybe telling themselves that in a few years they’d have so...
Mick Jagger letter to Andy Warhol (for real this...
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The Large Hadron Collider Sabotages itself from...
A pair of otherwise distinguished physicists have suggested that the hypothesized Higgs boson, which physicists hope to produce with the collider, might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation would ripple backward through time and stop the collider before it could make one, like a time traveler who goes back in time to kill his grandfather. via nytimes.com So the LHC can’t get...
Cloning in the Rain (?)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-11) →
Cat Power (25)
The Watson Twins (25)
Neko Case (23)
Feist (23)
Regina Spektor (19)
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Craig Johnson Memorial Bike Ride Photo Album
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Craig Johnson Memorial Ride
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Audio blog: Dancing Barefoot: The Feelies
Dancing Barefoot by The Feelies Download now or listen on posterous Dancing Barefoot.mp3 (6105 KB) I saw The Feelies play live in about 1990. At the show they were handing out cassingles (!) with this song, but I got there too late to get one. 15 year later I found the song, and still think it’s a great cover. -Jay Posted via email from...
Confusion vs Information Chart (via Simple...
via simplecomplexity.net Elegantly simple and right on. -Jay Posted via web from park3’s posterous | Comment »
Tour of Craig Johnson's Silicon Valley
Dear friends, You may have received notice already of Craig Johnson’s memorial this Sunday, October 11 on Stanford campus. A group of us would like to honor his memory by riding our bikes around some of Craig’s old haunts, ending up at the memorial. We would love to see a HUGE group come out, so we hope you can join us. Here is the plan: Sunday October 11 @ 12 PM. Meet at Arrillaga Alumni...
Spain’s Clean Power Folly (via Earth2Tech)
Gabriel Calzada, a Spanish economist and critic of the government’s approach to the solar market, notes that for each job his country’s alternative energy sector has created the cost to the Spanish government was $855,000. While hundreds of jobs were created during the construction phase of these alternative energy projects, few of them were permanent. Even more discouraging, according to...
Twitter Data Analysis: An Investor’s Perspective
Over 14% of users don’t have a single follower, and over 75% of users have 10 or fewer followers. 38% of users have never sent a single tweet, and over 75% of users have sent fewer than 10 tweets. 1 in 4 registered users tweets in any given month. Once a user has tweeted once, there is a 65% chance that they will tweet again. After that second tweet, however, the chance of a third...
Facebook, “Gross National Happiness,” and…...
The link between a country’s actual (not just financial) wellbeing (its “happiness”), economic health, and degree of sustainability is an arguable one. By way of illustration, Forbes.com reports that, in the “World’s Happiest Places” report for 2009, Denmark, Finland, and the Netherlands ranked first, second, and third, respectively. (This report evaluates places where people feel most positive...
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Down to the last few pieces of last year’s Halloween candy. #perfecttiming via Ping.fm Posted via web from park3’s posterous | Comment »
Roof of 1 Bush St has an oval border. Looks like...
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-4) →
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Samuel Magad & Sir Georg Solti (5)
Giulini, Carlo Maria; Los Angeles Philharminic Orchestra (5)
Nirvana (5)
Solti, Sir Georg; London Symphony;…
“[Have] “strong opinions, which are weakly held.”
– Bob Sutton talking to Bob Johansen on wisdom (via designtumblelog) (via rafer)
I love this thought. Sure it is overstated, but the rare gift is to have strong opinions, strong arguments to back them up and a willingness to change if presented with a better point of view.
-Jay
Top 100 San Francisco Web Businesses by User...
via blog.michaeljjacobson.com Interesting list. Posted via web from park3’s posterous | Comment »
Deadwood sculpture or nesting ground of the...
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Deadwood Sculpture or nesting ground of the...
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The Key to Success in Life (and Entrepreneurship)...
Rock has said that the key to success in life is having the right motivation, and that’s not money. “If you’re interested in building a business to make money, forget it. You won’t,” he told the Harvard Business School, his alma mater, in 1997. “If you’re interested in building a business to make a contribution to society, then let’s talk. via pehub.com I have definitely seen the results of...
Balancing Free and Paywall News Offerings (via...
CUNY’s New Business Models for News Project runs through two pay models for a metro news organization that decides to charge for content online. In one scenario, the website charges for all of its content; in the other, the site only charges for a fraction of it. The conclusion: Sites that charge for all of their content consistently lose “millions” during the first three years if they institute...
Proposal to Replace Associate Recruiting System...
These problems can be addressed by creation of a centralized matching authority. Under such a system, participating firms would still interview candidates for summer placement. At these interviews, candidates and firms would still be free to discuss any aspects of the internships. But the firms would not make offers directly to students, nor would students finalize placement at the time of the...
Mandatory Recession or Climate Insurance (via...
… the projected economic impact of an ambitious and long-term emission reduction effort amounts to a 1 to 3 percent hit on gross domestic product: Some economists have become known for advocating only slow and modest responses to climate change, lest the costs of mitigation become too large. This report demonstrates that such conclusions are incorrect. A number of economic analyses,...
Study: Limiting temperature rise to two degrees...
According to The Telegraph, Kevin Anderson, director of the research body, suggests that in order to avoid going beyond the dangerous tipping point, the UK has to double the target to 70 percent by 2020. This would mean reducing the size of the economy through a “planned recession”, where “the building of new airports, petrol cars and dirty coal-fired power stations will have to...
SwissRe Report on Strategies for Climate Change...
[C]limate risks could cost nations up to 19 percent of their G.D.P. by 2030, with developing countries most vulnerable. The report concludes, however, that cost-effective adaptation measures already exist that can prevent between 40 and 68 percent of the expected economic loss with even higher levels of prevention possible in highly target geographies. via greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com ...