communication. community. cognition.
Infinity
How do you explain infinity to a child?
Cartoons:
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What Siege Engines Can Teach You About Modern Communications
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Let’s face it. Catapults and Trebuchets are just plain cool. There’s something visceral about launching large items great distances. That’s the easy part, though. The hard part is hitting your targets. To better facilitate targeting, siege engines needed a way to hit the things that were “in between” the settings afforded by the ratchets and
Kill Art and Craft, and you Might Share The Coffin
about 1 year ago - 13 comments
One of the finest compliments I ever received was from Dan Cates, who was then my assistant news director at the ABC affiliate in Birmingham. “I wish I had a whole newsroom full of Ike Pigotts.” It was weeks before I could walk through a doorway without my big head getting in the way. I
Regression to the Mean
about 1 year ago - 5 comments
It’s time for the return of the Demotivational Devotional. (made with the Despair.com Do-It-Yourself De-Motivator)
Failure by the Numbers
about 2 years ago - 7 comments
Sudoku. It’s a logic puzzle that involves placing numbers or letters in a grid such that you get no repeating characters within a given row, column, or highlighted grid. I got a book of puzzles for Christmas, and things finally slowed down enough I could check it out. You’d think a publication so prestigious to
Flat Thinking
about 2 years ago - 1 comment
“A lot of ideas looked good on paper, but probably should have been rendered in three dimensions or more.”
Social Media is History
about 2 years ago - 16 comments
There. I said it. This notion of “citizen journalism” and “conversations” and “participation” is history. And here is the proof: This is a “blog post” from Amos Doolittle, from the year 1813, called “Brother Johnathan Administering a Salutary Cordial to John Bull.” In it, our protagonist (Brother Johnathan) is forcing foul swill down the mouth
What your ads say about you
about 2 years ago - 5 comments
Earlier today, I was combing through my Facebook and wondering about the little ads that appear to the right. Do you think people take it personally when they are reminded they have bad complexion, or might have a few extra pounds to lose in the gut? Is the ad server hooked up to a camera?
More Juxtapositions
about 2 years ago - 7 comments
The other day, a bunch of people were linking to this really cool cartoon that showed the differences between the varied Dystopian visions of George Orwell (1984) and Aldous Huxley (Brave New World). It highlighted how Orwell feared we’d become prodded by fear, versus Huxley’s alarm we’d be led by pleasure to our own enslavement.
Attitude Math
about 2 years ago - 3 comments
“Perpetual pessimism is multiplying by zero; Perpetual optimism is dividing by zero.”
The Math of Spam
about 2 years ago - 6 comments
Spam works because it scales. It costs very little to ramp up from 100,000 addresses to 10,000,000 addresses, and all it takes is a couple of hits to make the effort profitable. How do I know this? Because it exists. Here’s another example of the principle at play: On my recent trip to Las Vegas,
about 2 years ago
I think it was the Electric Company. All the grown ups were laying around. Someone asked them what is the LARGEST NUMBER in the world. Somebody called out a number. Then someone said, “Just add one to it”. They kept doing it. Then they cut away to something else, and came back and they were still counting. That was my first introduction to infinity.
And I would have been around Ryan’s age
about 2 years ago
I remember Electric Company. That little girl with the long black hair was hit-able, for sure. You know, I’m just sayin’…