Notes

I think “wikinomics” should be shorthand for “a half-assed job is good enough, as long as you do it faster and cheaper.” Wikinomics could change everything as concept of sharing spreads – Yahoo! News

What the internet was invented for: Snooping on other people’s petty crimes. This is the beginning of “Little Brother,” people! The Internet Finds Its Purpose – Columns by PC Magazine

Happy New Year! As you ponder making resolutions, consider this advice from 37signals: Define your own success – Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals) (and click through to the Steve Jobs speech if you haven’t read it before)

Are you a child of the stars? Apparently I’ve got some ancestral roots in the Pleiades. The Starseed Quiz

Banker “doesn’t quite get the concept of serving customers first, and worrying about revenues later” — and for this Craigslist is called a communist operation? What has capitalism come to? Craigslist Meets the Capitalists

“I was a teenage angle trisector.” Mathematical memoir and a surprisingly readable discussion of what it means to prove something: American Scientist Online – Foolproof

Ah, sweet, sweet schadenfreude. My only regret is that Ken Lay died before he got what was coming to him: CEOs in the Slammer

Lesser known editing marks: Geist: Comix (via India, Ink)

On the political compass, I fall in the “lefty libertarian” quadrant — not far from the Dalai Lama. In AD&D terms, I think that means “chaotic good.” Economic Left/Right: -3.25 Social Libertarian/ Authoritarian: -6.15 Political Compass Questionnaire

I’m Emperor Norton, it seems. Rum and Monkey: The Historical Lunatic Test

A small but growing collection of short, useful how-to videos from PC Magazine: PCMagCast Video

The solution to global warming? Nuclear winter! Climate scientists to discuss the chilling consequences of nuclear war