January 29, 2012

Optical fun.

Taken at Old Mill Elementary School

January 26, 2012

foot and inch marks

Ignore this one. Just for me.
’Cause I’m always looking for them.
Foot ' and inch " marks. Far out.

January 26, 2012

Steve Jobs: the axis today is constructive-destructive.

As documented by Walter Isaacson.

“‘You’re blowing it with Fox News,’ Jobs told [Rupert Murdoch] over dinner. ‘The axis today is not liberal and conservative, the axis is constructive-destructive, and you’ve cast your lot with the destructive people. Fox has become an incredibly destructive force in our society. You can be better, and this is going to be your legacy if you’re not careful.’”

Setting politics aside. Or including politics but including everything else as well. The axis today is constructive vs destructive. I keep thinking about that. Sure sounds right to me. And it’s driven by this.

January 24, 2012

Karl Heiselman on the defining behaviors of game-changing businesses

What are the defining behaviors of game-changing businesses?

Useful
Social
Experimental
Boundaryless
Value creative

http://www.aiga.org/video-pivot-2011-heiselman/

January 18, 2012

William Deresiewicz cautions West Point cadets on being too agreeable, the dangers of bureaucracy.

“So what I saw around me were great kids who had been trained to be world-class hoop jumpers. Any goal you set them, they could achieve. Any test you gave them, they could pass with flying colors. They were, as one of them put it herself, ‘excellent sheep.’”

Solitude and Leadership
If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts.

http://theamericanscholar.org/solitude-and-leadership/

January 17, 2012

“Search by image, recursively.”

Start with an image. In this case, a transparent PNG. Use that image to search for similar images. Use the top hit to search again. This is a movie of that process repeated 2,951 times.