Irrational Rocks
by Julias Shaw on May 30, 2011
Lately I’ve been doing volunteer work with Badger Run Wildlife Rehab. Badger run currently has a temporary permit to care for four Bald Eagles that were going to be euthanized. If they do not meet the requirements for their permanent permit they may still have to be put to sleep. Please watch and share the [...]
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by George Friedman on December 14, 2010
Julian Assange has declared that geopolitics will be separated into pre-“Cablegate” and post-“Cablegate” eras. That was a bold claim. However, given the intense interest that the leaks produced, it is a claim that ought to be carefully considered. Several weeks have passed since the first of the diplomatic cables were released, and it is time [...]
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by Julias Shaw on October 2, 2010
This video shows what it’s like to be an IT vendor… except that everybody in it is far nicer than they typically (but not always) are in the real world: Thanks to Adam Monago for finding this one.
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by Julias Shaw on September 19, 2010
A couple of days ago something troubling happened on Twitter that I’d like to talk about but before we get to that… An inch of time is an inch of gold but you can’t buy an inch of time with an inch of gold. – Ancient Chinese Proverb As I write this it is Sunday [...]
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by Julias Shaw on August 6, 2010
In reviewing the comments to my posting of Not Yours to Give by Davy Crockett I began to think of my favorite section from Thoreau’s Walden and Civil Disobedience. I heartily accept the motto – “That government is best which governs least;” and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and [...]
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by Julias Shaw on July 22, 2010
Lately I’ve been helping out a client with a history project and have been reading a lot of old books. While reading “The Life of Colonel David Crockett” by Edward Ellis I ran across this speech. It’s not appropriate for that site so I thought I would republish it here. (The book was published in [...]
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by Julias Shaw on May 4, 2010
Note that I didn’t say one easy step. Unfortunately the default programming of humans seems to be tribal competitiveness. However I believe there is a cure. A cure that doesn’t cost a dime. Have you ever noticed how, most of the time, when a person you love and care about says or does something you [...]
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by Julias Shaw on March 17, 2010
Learn a few tricks to keep your creativity high and avoid the negativity that can arise when your ideas haven’t yet come to fruition. Earlier today, my friend @cianna tweeted “Contemplating further revelations about potential negative effects of my constant business & big ideas: Erosion of confidence. Sadness.” First, an introduction is in order. I’d [...]
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by Julias Shaw on February 9, 2010
We Love xkcd
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by Julias Shaw on June 16, 2008
Michael Ogawa has created a mesmerizing animated visualization of the activity within source code repositories named code_swarm. This is truly a case of a picture being worth (at least) a thousand words. Go check it out at http://vis.cs.ucdavis.edu/~ogawa/codeswarm/
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Warrior, Libertarian, Hypnotist, and Geek
