Leavings

Making things smaller is fun.

In another life, this would have brought me to Maker Faire.

Why Twitter? Well, if you have to ask …

“In a major part of the world,” he writes in his 1997 book Modernization and Postmodernization, “the disciplined, self-denying, and achievement-oriented norms of industrial society are giving way to an increasingly broad latitude for individual choice of lifestyles and individual self-expression.”

Who is this but Winston Smith, the failed hero of Nineteen Eighty-Four, figured as a book reviewer? Or who, conversely, is Winston Smith, but a book reviewer figured as the prisoner of a futuristic totalitarian regime?

Before things get easier they have to get harder…

My thinking behind these posters was to convey the movement and energy of the games, in a simple abstract way.

Dark design works.

“Now do puppies!” pleaded Vishnu. “And kitties!”

Seeing is knowing.

“They’re the best leadership team that’s been in the school in the last 12 to 15 years,” Mr. Walker said.

The complete lack of a radio call, though, and the clear evidence that the plane's route crossed through an active complex of thunderstorms does make it likely in my view that structural failure from turbulence occurred.

Even if this artificially induced media cluster does benefit Asia in the long run, there are those who feel that adding yet another sector to Singapore’s investment portfolio is symptomatic of “growth fetishism.”

In the 1990's, a former student of Bloom, Lorin Anderson, revised Bloom's Taxonomy and published this- Bloom's Revised Taxonomy in 2001.

In recent years, social psychologists have begun to study what they call the holier-than-thou effect. They have long known that people tend to be overly optimistic about their own abilities and fortunes — to overestimate their standing in class, their discipline, their sincerity.

(Sadly, the days when cities were blanketed by free Wi-Fi signals leaking from people’s apartments are over; they all require passwords these days.)

They don’t understand what The Economist is.

Wolfram Alpha has been designed with professionals and academics in mind, so its grasp of popular culture is, at the moment, comparatively poor. The term "50 Cent" caused "absolute horror" in tests, for example, because it confused a discussion on currency with the American rap artist. For this reason alone it is unlikely to provide an immediate threat to Google, which is working on a similar type of search engine, a version of which it launched last week.

I want.