Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart
Trying to get my thousand words for the day before Thanksgiving. via flickr The quote is from William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, I think.
Tenzin Priyadarshi on stillness, silence, insight, and clarity
Via Tammy Strobel's always delightful Rowdy Kittens: If there is no stillness, there is no silence.If there is no silence, there is no insight.If there is no insight,
Quiet day in the cafe
Maybe because it's Thanksgiving week, but it's oddly quiet at Cafe Zoe, where I'm now working, as the construction crews are back digging up the Hetch Hetchy. cafe
Contemplative computing in Sweden
The Swedish publication Biblioteksbladet has a short piece about contemplative computing. Or I assume it's about contemplative computing, since it has the words "contemplative computing" and I see
Orthodox spirituality’s design lessons for modern technology
Via Rosie Perera's Faith and Technology blog (which I highly recommend you read, if you're not already familiar with it), I read this morning an essay by the
It’s better for your audience to remember one thing than forget five
I gave a talk yesterday at TEDxYouth@Monterey (I think I got all the various Xes, @s, and other connectors in the event name). via flickr It was a
For toddlers, “A banana and an iPad are two things that have always been there”
The Guardian's Thomas Jones has an essay about techno-toddlers. To be perfectly honest, I couldn't figure out what it was about: kids use adult technology, companies are starting
Very cool
Just watch. This is a brilliant long-form advertisement-- the sort of thing you can't fit into a 30-second Super Bowl spot. Via Balloon Juice.
“Real time” and Jóhann Jóhannsson
I'm working this morning on a section of the book about the idea of "real time"-- how the concept got started in computer science, how it's multiplied and
Constraint and creativity in online advertising
Felix Salmon, who's emerging as my favorite non-Matt Taibbi writer on financial matters, had an interesting post today on the future of online advertising. I’ve been looking at