Shane on December 14th, 2009

It’s not quite a Christmas song, but it does get me in the Christmas mood to see such a creative take on an old standard.

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Shane on October 23rd, 2009

Fantastic piece by Charles Kenny on Foreign Policy on the effect of television on modernization. TV has become such an integral part of our culture in the US, but as television penetrates globally, we are seeing dramatic social consequences. Many of them good consequences.
A couple of these changes that jumped out at me.
Exposing (or Complicating) [...]

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Shane on October 21st, 2009

Interesting study in the Scientific American today on mind matters.
In a series of experiments, they showed that if students make an unsuccessful attempt to retrieve information before receiving an answer, they remember the information better than in a control condition in which they simply study the information.
The authors of the “Dummies Guide” and “For [...]

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Shane on October 19th, 2009

I’d never heard of Louis CK before I saw this clip. Apparently he used to write for Conan O’Brien back in the glory days. I’m not too crazy about a lot of his other humor, but this is funny.
Funny because it’s true.

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Shane on January 3rd, 2009

There are some people that you can meet just once and they make an impression on you. Dr. W. Scott Nobles or “Dr. Nobles” and was reverently referred to, was such a person. A great man. A great mind.

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Shane on December 11th, 2008

Achieving emptiness with “Bit Literacy” – (37signals)
Maintaining a healthy media diet requires vigilance about what you’re consuming. Thus it’s important to constantly ask the question, “Is this worth my time?” at every level: the source (“Is this source worth my time?”), a particular issue of the source, an article, even down to the [...]

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Shane on April 25th, 2008

Last year, when our home briefly went without Microsoft Windows in our unsuccessful Mac experiment, one of the applications I had the most difficult time replacing was Microsoft Money. I had been using it for 3+ years to track our net worth and experiment a little with budgeting. I tried using Quicken for the Mac, [...]

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