always.on.my.mind

Apr 11 2009 ∞
“ It all reminds me of the story from The Black Swan, in which, for 1000 days, a turkey’s general well-being and all-round satisfaction with life is mapped on a graph - and on Christmas Eve, he looks at the chart, admires the upward curve and thinks about how wonderful the next day will surely be.
— On attempting to ascertain the value of future creative endeavors based on statistical analyses of past events via New Music Strategies
Mar 17 2009 ∞

Best & Worst

The absolutely best and worst thing about the Internet: unpredictably dynamic content.

Mar 01 2009 ∞

20 Corporate Brand Logo Evolution

An interesting look at the evolution of the most memorable business marks in use today.

Feb 20 2009 ∞
“ Standards for No Child Left Behind vary enough from state to state that a failing school in one could pass in another, according to a national report by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute expected to be released today. President Barack Obama has said he will push for more unified expectations. “The notion that we have 50 different goal posts doesn’t make sense,” said Education Secretary Arne Duncan. “A high-school diploma needs to mean something, no matter where it’s from.
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Freaking told you.  There’s a master plan, and it’s under wraps:

  • Clinton: National standards in all content areas (Goals 2000)
  • Bush: Accountability system intentionally designed to fail (NCLB)
  • Obama: Unified assessment criteria
  • Coming: National assessments and curricular objectives
Feb 15 2009 ∞

me@flickr

Been updating my photos on flickr since picking up a steal of a digital camera @ Circuit City.  Take a peek.

Feb 10 2009 ∞
“ The Mac software ecosystem faces a plague. A plague of Everything Buckets. Indulge me. If you search for “productivity” or “organization” software for the Mac, you’ll find variations on a particular type of application. These applications claim to be “your outboard brain” or “your digital filing cabinet” or similar. They go by many names: Yojimbo, Together, ShoveBox, Evernote, DEVONthink. There may be differences in their implementation and appearance, but these applications are all of the same sinister ilk. They are Everything Buckets.
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Alex Payne is off his rocker.  ”Everything Buckets”—a simply dreadful misnomer, by the way, that would make a marvelous title for an Oprah’s Book Club selection—can be fantastic productivity tools.  In fact, I use three of the five he mentions in the quote above: Shovebox as a virtual GTD Inbox; Yojimbo to store notes that then sync with my Treo; and DEVONthink as a storehouse for research projects, PDF software manuals, etc.  I also use Circus Ponies Notebook as a centralized app to store my career-related brain books and to organize information for my writing projects.

Of course, I might be biased.  After all, I’m pretty sure I coded the very first Mac “Everything Bucket”: the packrat.

Feb 08 2009 ∞
peak (via me on flickr)

peak (via me on flickr)

Feb 01 2009 ∞
An instructive graph.  I won’t spoil the fun by explaining it.  What conclusions do you draw?

An instructive graph.  I won’t spoil the fun by explaining it.  What conclusions do you draw?

Jan 31 2009 ∞

Recommended

DropboxIf you aren’t using Dropbox yet, you should be.  Today.  It’s making the flashdrive an antiquity almost overnight. In my experience, it works flawlessly on all major operating systems (home Mac and work Windows are always perfectly synced) and doubles as an off-site backup system for your important docs.

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