August 2010
13 posts
List of common misconceptions →
readmorewikipedia:
Contrary to the popular image of the Pilgrim Fathers, the early settlers of the Plymouth Colony in present-day Plymouth, Massachusetts, did not dress in black, wear buckles, or wear black steeple hats.
There is no evidence that Vikings wore horns on their helmets.
Sugar does not cause hyperactivity in children.
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WatchThe only thing that would make Twilight NOT suck — and let’s be honest, it would still suck — is if they make the final movie 100% true to the book (if indeed the book is what this FoD clip says it is). At least then everyone would be forced to admit that Stephanie Meyer is a hack. On the other hand, you can’t solve for teenybopper ignorance and philistine behavior, so I...
Marco.org: A smartphone retrospective →
This is what high-end smartphones looked like in 2007:
Smartphones were an established consumer-electronics market with devices that people thought were pretty cool, but often frustrating and with serious shortcomings and design flaws.
Then this happened:
Other manufacturers had…
It’s the perfect article.
Frank Chimero spews gold on answering "What advice... →
Every sentence is my favorite.
But this is my favorite:
A text editor is a perfectly viable design tool.
Make sure you read all the way to the end.
Ryan Freitas: 35 Lessons in 35 Years →
My father always told me that the day we stop learning is the day we die. I wrote this as a sort of preparation for my 35th birthday last week. Some of these are poignant, others are simply trite; I attribute the latter to my growing sense of sentimentality as I age. That, and I need an editor.
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Must-read.
Hilariously Subversive ‘I’m Voting Tea Party’... →
Pure gold (unless you actually support those nut jobs). Taking all bets on whether or not Tea Party supporters will actually buy these.
Exploration and the risk of failure →
Seth Godin:
People seem to be in one of two categories:
Those who seek stability, affiliation, work worth doing and the assurance it (whatever it is) will be okay.
Those who explore, need to know that failure is an option and quest to make a dent in the universe.
You can be in either category, the world needs and rewards both. But pick a brand and a job and a posture that matches your...
viafrank:
From SpeEdChange, a resource for changing education:
…the reason US standardized test results collapse after 4th grade is because tests simply ask kids to regurgitate processes we’ve been banging into them for first 4 years of school. They do that well enough. But the processes really don’t connect to most on functional level, so when they later take content-driven evaluation tests,...