This is an absolutely brilliant presentation given by Clay Shirky (author of the new smash hit on organizing Without organizations called “Here Comes Everybody“) on the topic of “Where do they find the time”. You hear this phrase, usually in response to some report of silly activity or massively time consuming hobby. We Clay knows [...]
Ever since I read Timothy D. Wilson’s magnificent “Strangers to Ourselves“, I have been fascinated with the fact that we often know less about ourselves than our closest friends and family (thanks probably to our many cognitive biases) .
Enter MIT’s Reality Mining Project:
[O]ur ultimate goal is to create a predictive classifier that [...]
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Thin Slicing at work in the corporate world as the Economist declares “What the boss looks like determines how he performs”.
This may sound like voodoo. Psychologists spent much of the 20th century denigrating the work of 19th-century physiognomists and phrenologists who thought the shapes of faces and skulls carry information about personality. However, recent work [...]
Thursday, August 24, 2006
From Digital Camera University come a primer on how to look better in photos.
In summary:
Step 1 - If you are standing, turn slightly and rest your weight on one foot. It may FEEL goofy, but you WILL look better. If you are sitting, angle to one side or the other.
Step 2 - [...]
I have always loved the idea of having dictaphone to capture those thoughts, tasks and plans that occur to one whilst out and about.
The problem I discovered soon after I bought one was that in public I felt like a dingbat talking into my little device.
I now use my mobile phone as a dictaphone and [...]
The Forearm Forklift is a pair of lifting straps designed to make moving furniture, appliances, mattresses, dry wall, windows, HVAC units, glass, marble, copy machines and filing cabinets easily.
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Phiculator, the Golden Ratio calculator
Phi, the Fibonacci sequence, the golden ratio, the golden section, the golden mean, the divine proportion. It‚Äôs known as many things, but the ratio they all refer to is the same, 1 : 1.61803399…
Found in art, architecture, design, and most intriguingly, in nature, this ratio has been used throughout history and [...]
Friday, December 30, 2005
In terms of activism, one way people can be very useful to their political movements is to monitor their local media for biased or inaccurate reporting.
Honest Reporting (a pro-Israeli media monitoring website) has a good section on How to Become a Media Patroller.
Thursday, December 22, 2005
Here are a few new cool online tools….
NetworthIQ - Track, share, and compare Net Worth. How do you measure up?
Track
Take an inventory of your assets and debts to determine your net worth, then track it month-to-month using your free account.
Share
Create an optional public profile so that others can see how you’re doing and link [...]
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Welcome to All About Giving - everything you need to know about charitable giving
The single biggest source of information on tax-effective giving on the Internet, bringing together charities, companies and individuals to form a community of giving online.
Within www.allaboutgiving.org you can:
find out about the CAF Charity Account and other ways to give
manage your CAF Charity [...]
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