if you're bored, you're not paying attention
“If you’re bored, you’re not paying attention” has been the motto on my blog for at least a couple of years.
I’m not sure where the phrase came from, but to me it’s a statement that there is always something interesting going on, if you are simply willing to take an interest, open your eyes, and pay attention to what’s going on around you.… Read the rest
There is data on gun use in the U.S. Unfortunately, we don’t have good access to it, which makes informed discussion almost impossible.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms collects statistics on gun sales and where those guns wind up.… Read the rest
People are increasingly dissatisfied with their social networks — the advertising, the lack of clear privacy protections, the intimations that anything you say can and will be used in a promotional manner at some point in the future — and some of them, this week, have even started to abandon them.… Read the rest
In my column this week, I return to the subject of Microsoft — and suggest a way that the company can give its Windows Phone OS a boost.
… Read the restCarrier subsidies are increasingly standing in the way of innovation.
“We’re drunk off the subsidy model,” IDC analyst Ramon Llamas told VentureBeat last week.
After tracking my daily sleep hours, caffeine and alcohol consumption, mood, weight, and exercise on and off for a year, I decided to see if this data could teach me anything.
And here it is: There’s a fairly strong negative correlation between the amount of caffeine I consume and the hours I sleep (-0.45, using Google’s CORREL() function).… Read the rest
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