Lego Robot-s (more)

Scientists Just Invented the Neural Lace. Called “mesh electronics,” the device is so thin and supple that it can be injected with a needle. (more)

Paul Ford accidentally created a kinda Social Network by giving out shell accounts (Cheap Hosting) at Tilde Club. When I woke up 100 people were asking for accounts.

Nassim Taleb concept, fleshed out in Black Swan (more)

Sitting at Beta Works lunch-talk by Abigail Baird on "SeriousHappyLearning". Connect to How To Raise Reality Hackers? (more)

Josh Kaufman describes our common "StatusMalfunction": the more attractive an option looks in terms of status, the more likely it is to have significant drawbacks or pitfalls (given extreme competition for that status), and the more likely we are to ignore or undervalue those drawbacks and pursue that option anyway, which is a pretty dumb thing to do, and we should stop ourselves from doing that if we can. I call this tendency “status malfunction.” The greater the potential perceived status increase, the higher the risk of serious error or malinvestment. (Status Game, Less Bullshit Living) (more)

Brain Fart Of The Day: CPG Physical Shopping App design.

Jerry Michalski gave a great talk on Schooling's "Hidden Curriculum". (more)

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I had this thought in the Grocery Store yesterday as I was searching the frozen-food aisle for something (a gyros "kit") I don't normally buy, and didn't even know if they stocked. In the end I found 3 alternatives, none of which were next to each other! (more)

Martial Art? Extreme Sport? (more)

Physical Fitness/Self Improvement site (more)

seems to be a Good Diet (more)

place with great Schooling, as defined by Great Schools Net? UsNews?

*Silk Road was an online Black Market, best known as a platform for selling illegal drugs (War On Drugs). As part of the Dark Web,[7] it was operated as a TOR Hidden Service, such that online users were able to browse it anonymously and securely without potential traffic monitoring. The website was launched in February 2011; development had begun six months prior. (more)

*John Dennis "Denny" Hastert (/ˈhæstərt/; born January 2, 1942) is an American politician, lobbyist, and member of the Republican Party who was the 59th Speaker of the United States House Of Representatives, serving from 1999 to 2007. He represented Illinois's 14th congressional district for twenty years, 1987 to 2007. He is the longest-serving Republican Speaker of the House in history. (more)

For reasons I won't go into, I've been thinking about trying a little Meditation. I thought I'd look for something a bit longer than Robert Anton Wilson's recommendations, so I browsed some books. Blech, too much (anti-)intellectual baggage. (more)

Jerry Michalski is asking the Yi-Tan group, if you were Emperor and could make just 3 directives (Executive Order), what would they be? Then the group will discuss: (more)

I rather like the meme of there being a "Bubble" in College Education. (more)

Fear Uncertainty And Doubt (more)