"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." "Like I always say, there's no 'I' in "team". There is a 'me', though, if you jumble it up." We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do. Wisdom - that part of knowledge that isn't only true, but also happens to be helpful. Wisdom speaks softly... Thereafter the volume increases proportionate to the level of ignorance A punctured bicycle
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Will nature make a man of me yet? All designed objects are propaganda for a certain way of life. Sometimes we need to stop analysing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely how we feel, stop deciding exactly what we want, and just see what happens. We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence." --Napoleon Bonaparte The best designed clothes: invite being removed but reward being kept on. It's that you just can't take the effect and make it the cause | Finally, my prognostication piece missed wildly. I was way too ambitious on Apple’s behalf. I figured it’s been so long since they shipped something wonderful that they must really have something incredible and far-reaching in the lab, and here it comes. About the only thing I got right was #9. Steve still loves to delete ports. It would have been sort of cute if he had delivered on some of the potential in this category. But given the lack of imagination and execution in this product, it’s a cruel joke that illustrates that all that remains of Apple’s brilliance [ continue reading Apple’s jumbo Oreo – Dave is the opposite of impressed ] Of course – if you are really bright surely you can homeschool yourself! By this time tomorrow, we’ll know all of the technical specs on the new Apple tablet computer—assuming Steve Jobs isn’t setting up his salivating acolytes for the mother of all Vaseline-slimed curveballs. Given Apple’s track record with disrupting media industries , print publishers of all sorts are bracing for what the new device could possibly do. Bloomberg reports that the tablet is likely to “boost demand for digital textbooks.” And the ZDNet education technology blogger Christopher Dawson seems pretty excited that Apple and textbook publisher McGraw-Hill are [ continue reading Could the Apple Tablet Make Higher Ed. Irrelevant? ] Alan Kay, regarding his reaction to the iPhone in January 2007: When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing. So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world. ★ Hmmm wasn’t that when Steve Ballmer said” Nobody is going to pay this much for a cellphone”. Hey if I was a Microsoft shareholder I’d [ continue reading ‘You’ll Rule the World’ ] What a surprise! A big iPodtouch+++! “Want One” (the ipod touch has always been the real bomb). Today Obama will tell the American public that there is no money. A few hours earlier Steve Jobs will have told the American people what they want to buy with the money they don’t have. The bitter pill versus the tablet a day anticipointment (uncountable) The state of mind resulting from excitedly anticipating a strongly promoted product, event, film, etc, and then being disappointed when it fails to meet the expectations generated by this promotion. This article is part of The GOOD Guide to Slowing Down, from GOOD Issue 18. Read more of the guide here. Easy ways to unplug your gadgets and your life Perhaps you’ve heard: Texting while driving can kill you. If you ask us, staying too connected behind your desk can be dangerous, as well. In recent studies, single-taskers have outperformed those who take on many tasks at a time, suggesting that multitaskers are less efficient, have heavier workloads, and set themselves up for elevated stress and its related problems, like weight gain, sleep loss, and elevated blood pressure. [ continue reading Step Away from the Smartphone ] According to the New York Times: Slightly more than 1,000 pedestrians visited emergency rooms in 2008 because they got distracted and tripped, fell or ran into something while using a cellphone to talk or text. That was twice the number from 2007, which had nearly doubled from 2006, according to a study conducted by Ohio State University, which says it is the first to estimate such accidents. [via Gizmodo] Related: – Cell-phone Use – but Not Music – Reduces Pedestrian Safety – Mobile phone users cannot walk in straight line – 6 million people [ continue reading Study Suggests There’s a ‘Texting While Walking’ Epidemic ] Here and here – and very good it is as a list – I can sign up to that. In August 2008, Apple approved an application in the App Store called I Am Rich. The app did nothing beyond show a picture of a red gem. So why was it notable? Because it cost $999.99. Though Apple pulled it relatively quickly, there was some concern that we’d start to see a rush of bogus applications and/or huge prices in the App Store. Luckily, that didn’t happen and app prices have remained low (some would say too low). But now we have the return of a $999.99 app. (CLICK HERE FOR MORE -> TechCrunch BarMax: The $1,000 iPhone App [ continue reading BarMax: The $1,000 iPhone App That Might Actually Be Worth It ] What this map does not show is the almost complete outage of o2 reception in London N16! Anyone ready to post – oh that’s right, you can’t. iPhone 3G UK Signal Map After #uksnow and #ukhols comes #iPhone3GTest. This Google Maps and Twitter mashup shows the signal strength levels of various places around the UK. The data for the map comes from Twitter users using the #iPhone3GTest tag as started by @JasonBradbury To help improve the map you should Tweet using the hashtag ‘#iPhone3GTest’, the first half of your postcode, your operator, your 3G signal, and how many bars of [ continue reading Google Map Showing iPhone Signal Strength ] A “painstakingly curated presentation of the best produced and designed iPhone applications,” App.itize.us makes a clever guide to the games, maps and more esoteric apps out there. They did such a good job that narrowing their list to our favs was no easy task. Here are a few: Momento, for example, is a cross-platform app that connects to Twitter, facebook and other social networking sites while providing a simple and clean look for diaring. For current events, the U.K. Guardian’s new app offers a new and easier way to access the newspaper. Creative types will like Vellum, a drawing [ continue reading App.itize.us: Inventive iPhone Apps ] | Shirdi Sai Baba: "Before you speak, ask yourself: Is it kind, is it true, is it necessary, does it improve upon the silence?" Well known fact that any kiss where one or other party is in control of heavy machinery doesn't count for quality assessment purposes. There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. The honest heart that's free frae a' intended fraud or guile. However fortune kick the ba', Has ay some cause to smile. Life consists in replacing one worry with another, and one desire with the next, what the Buddhists call ‘grasping’ or upādāna in Sanskrit "Every saint has a past. Every sinner has a future." "Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die." A wrong decision isn't forever; it can be reversed. The losses from a delayed decision are forever; they can never be retrieved. heavy words thrown lightly And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.” |
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