October 2009
16 posts
Added my Goodreads Currently Reading list to my Universal Feed.
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something,...”
– Buckminster Fuller
Go, Boxee, Go!
“We are pretty much the same as we were twenty thousand years ago. We have in the...”
– Aldous Huxley
There many other potentialities remain hidden in us. Let’s develop the methods and the means to actualize them!
via Tinkering till the end of time
Simulmedia
I recently learned about a fascinating data-driven company called Simulmedia. They buy raw data from set-top box companies like Tivo and analyze it. Among many other things, they learn when a user watched what and and for how long. With a set of millions of users, they identify viewing patterns and can predict with certainty how receptive you might be to one television program given that you...
I added my Instapaper queue (a list of most web articles I’m reading) to my universal feed.
From my dad …
Marmalade - Reflections of My...
We were agrarian once, and so were our laws
The adjective ‘physiocratic’ describes the belief that the wealth and virtue of nations resides in the cultivation of land, and that agrarian nations are the most contented.
Thomas Jefferson famously wrote to John Jay:
Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and...