by Tom | Oct 18, 2012 | Reading
Uncomfortable but required reading. Jerry Sandusky and the Mind of a Pedophile.
by Tom | Oct 18, 2012 | Business, Government, Reading
People who download music for free purchase more music than people who don’t download music for free, say a survey in where do Music Collections Come From? Sounds right to me, and looks right for books as well. It seems that all those people reading Kindles or...
by Tom | Oct 18, 2012 | Reading, Science
As We May Think – Vannevar Bush. Deep thinking on thinking from 1945. Astonishingly prescient in many regards: the impossibility of keeping up with the deluge of information and knowledge created by the human race; the value of hypertext; speech recognition. I...
by Tom | Oct 18, 2012 | Reading
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry via The Technium: Sourced Quotes,...
by Tom | Oct 18, 2012 | Reading, Science
Chinese Study Explains Why Mobile Phone Ban Doesn’t Reduce Traffic Accidents. Brilliant: people who use mobile phones while driving are bad drivers with or without the phone. Obvious, when you think about it, but good to have tested it. New penalty thought:...
by Tom | Oct 10, 2012 | Business, Reading
This sounds like a very positive outcome for music. Obviously the big artists still get all the money, but to get meaningful monies to a few thousand artists is pretty good. For over two thousand artists Pandora will pay over $10,000 dollars each over the next 12...
