*Jonathan Martin is the principal of his new educational consulting practice, Jonathan E Martin Ed. Services, with a mission “to support educators, schools, districts, and associations in the work of strengthening 21st century teaching, learning, and assessing and in becoming ‘schools of the future.”” (more)

RobertHiggs name for the Great Depression, positing that recovery didn't begin until after the end of World War II. (more)

as your Cell Phone becomes a Convergence Device PDA and mini-LapTop. Super Cheap Laptop? (more)

Jason Santa Maria on the value of keeping a Sketch Book (NoteBook). Sketchbooks are not about being a good artist (writer), they're about being a good thinker.

As in Life Purpose (more)

Writer/Consultant about Software Development process. (more)

Les Orchard is working on an HTML-5/JavaScript Computer Game like Asteroids. (more)

Entity-component-system (ECS) is a software architecture Pattern that separates the functionality into individual components that are mostly independent of one another. Composition is used instead of inheritance. The entity is a general purpose object. Usually, it only consists of a unique id and a container. The component consists of a minimal set of data needed for a specific purpose. Systems are single purpose functions that take a set of entities which have a specific component (or set of components) and update them. A typical application of ECS is in Computer Game-s design when there are many type of objects with many type of attributes. Instead of using a complex inheritance hierarchy of object types, entities are used with components. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity_component_system (more)

Like a Javascript Client Framework but higher-level, more specialized, for Computer Game development. (more)

Just read Dave Eggers' 2000 interview with the Harvard Advocate. You expressed many of the feelings I used to have, when I was in high school and college, about some of the people I admired at the time, people who at some point disappointed me in some way, or made moves I could not understand. So I took a few passages from your questions - those pertaining to or hinting at "SellingOut (Sell Out)" - and I used them as a launching pad for a rant I've wanted to write for a while now, and more so than ever since my own book has become successful... Oh how gloriously comforting, to be able to write someone off... One less thing to think about. Now, how to kill off the rest of our heroes, to better make room for new ones?... The only thing worse than this sort of activity is when people, students and teachers alike, run around college campuses calling each other racists and anti-Semites. It's born of boredom, lassitude. Too cowardly to address problems of substance where such problems actually are, we claw at those close to us... The thing is, I really like saying yes. I like new things, projects, plans, getting people together and doing something, trying something, even when it's corny or stupid. I am not good at saying no. And I do not get along with people who Say No. When you die, and it really could be this afternoon, under the same bus wheels I'll stick my head if need be, you will not be happy about having said no. You will be kicking your ass about all the no's you've said... No is for wimps. No is for pussies. No is to live small and embittered, cherishing the opportunities you missed because they might have sent the wrong message... What matters is that you do good work. What matters is that you produce things that are true and will stand. (more)

Fresh interview with Dave Eggers. Eggers recently spoke to The Onion A.V. Club about the stress of fame, the purpose of literary critics, why he writes and publishes what he writes and publishes, and of course, gorillas.

a Road Map of what matters (more)

James Altucher daily Habit of making a list of ideas for a topic (on a little waiter's pad NoteBook). (more)

Personal Development writer (more)

Stewart Brand, president of the Long Now Foundation, joined Eri Gentry, cofounder of the BioCurious Hacker Space in Sunnyvale and a research manager at think-tank Institute for the Future, for a wide ranging conversation about “Life 2.0” at Techonomy 2013, moderated by Andrew Hessel, a distinguished researcher at AutoDesk. (BioTech) (more)

Timothy Ferriss book (more)

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GNU Image Manipulation Program (more)

Reading Bruce Sterling's Leggy Starlitz describing himself as a Systems Analyst reminded me of Jeff Goldblum's character in The Fly describing himself as a Systems Manager. Well, I don't work alone. There's a lot of stuff in there I don't even understand. I'm really, uh...a Systems Management man. I farm...bits and pieces, uh, out to guys who are much more brilliant than I am. I say..."Build me a laser this, design me a molecular analyzer that," and they do, and I just stick'em together. But, uh, none of them knows what the project really is. So... Various Hacker incarnations.

OAuth, XRD guru (more)