Muse - Madness

Links for Later 9-24-12

1. How education reformers blow it with Key Performance Metrics: "We need better schools, not just better teachers."

HP26: Devil Wears Prada Loft

Yes, I will take this loft featured in The Devil Wears Prada for only $5.2 million, thank you for asking. Everything a loft should be.

 

 

 

I am also willing to accept this fine house in Los Angeles. Whichever.

Really Big

xkcd: click and drag is a really big comic strip. Go explore it.

Update: And here is a zoomable version of the map, which boingboing puts at 46 feet wide, if printed at 300dpi.

Update 2: 30 Easter eggs in the comic

Procrastination

Procrastination bad: how to do less of it. Procrastination good: how to use it to your advantage

Charlie Mars - Let the Meter Run

Links for Later 9-14-12

1. Fungus-infected wood for Stradivarius-quality instruments
2. Theo Kamecke's circuit board sculpture, which I remember seeing in the old Mondo 2000
3. Defrag your brain
4. Scott Walker's union-busting law ruled unconstitutional
5. Specimen's horn speakers

Research Paper of the Day

Dennis Upper, "The Unsuccessful Self-Treatment of a Case of Writer's Block."

(via Greg Mankiw)

Links for Later 9-11-12

1. Calder's mercury fountain
2. Making perfect pages with the Villard diagram
3. DADT has no negative impact
4. How startup investing is really "Black Swan Farming", by Paul Graham
5. Joseph Uccello, printer and designer at Viatorium Press

Positive Signs

Christine Wong Yap, positive sign #52 (difficult enough goal) 2011

Register to Vote Here

Isn't that cool? You can register to vote via any blog, tumblr, or whatnot online. Like here. You can also get your own voter registration widget at the Obama for America website, even if you're voting for the other guy.

Barack Obama at DNC 2012

Bill Clinton at DNC 2012

Now that's how you give a speech.

Zefiro Torna

Monteverdi's Zefiro Torna, as performed by L'Arpeggiata and Philip Jaroussky.

Links for Later 9-1-12

1. Update on the body cooling glove which improves athletic recovery vastly.
2. A short macroeconomic review.
3. Review of David Nutt's Drugs: Without the Hot Air
4. Jon Stewart on Clint Eastwood's RNC chair speech
5. Rachel Maddow on same
6. Flynn's IQ
7. Yoga can't be copyrighted
8. The Music Bed: Royalty free music resource
9. Richard Kadrey's The Devil Said Bang preview
10. The World's Smallest Palladian Villa