Month: September 2010

Even if two-year-olds are sapping f-bombs of their power by dropping them more often than ever, colorful language still magically makes everything better at the office. I always knew those tirades were chillaxing my overtaxed mind and launching me up the corporate ladder. Here’s to freaking out!

A scientist with the most super-duper clock ever reminds us that the farther away from gravity-bending bodies like the big ol’ earth that I get, the more quickly time moves. What’s funny here is that he measured “farther away” on a scale more familiar to many of us: in the more mundane terms of feet … Read more

In the September 2010 issue of Harvard Business Review, the article “Mistakes Leaders Keep Making” offers some advice that could be applied to your own brain when trying to lead yourself into the bright tomorrow of getting done that which needs doing. The nuggets are tucked into a sidebar titled “The Seven Deadly Sins of … Read more

More Wall Street lawyers can break out their shiny iPhones without being ostracized for appearing to prefer form over function. But when will phones running Google’s mobile operating system be added to the ever-expanding vocabulary of power? Doesn’t the Droid make the cut? Surely it’s as good as a Blackberry.

One of the results of a hyper-networked (fully Internetted) culture is that many if not all acts of creativity, if they are recorded in some fashion, will quickly succumb to the glory and gutting of categorization. Case in point: nerdcore. The BBC’s report seems a bit late, but it’s (sadly) the first I’ve heard of … Read more

I am suspecting an automatic feed from PR Newswire to Reuters.com has created this most alarming of headlines to be prominently displayed on the organization’s home page (it’s the No. 2 most-popular article): U.S. Nuclear Weapons Have Been Compromised by Unidentified Aerial Objects. If you stopped right there and didn’t read any further, you would … Read more

I’m so inspired by this rumored attempt to tie Facebook software to expensive, unnecessary, replacement-required-eventually hardware, that perhaps I’ll go ahead and make a Flying Flashlight phone. It will be just like every other phone, except it will work far worse and have special buttons (large, red depressable saucer with “Pay With Flying Flashlight credits” … Read more

You know, it’s disturbing enough that kids as young as two are now dropping f-bombs and s-nukes and a-expletives, but what really gets me is that if a toddler is using these words, how can any self-respecting adult employ them to unleash the torrent of aggravation that modern society generates by the f@*!$# s-load? Quit … Read more

The man trying to speak with dolphins named his portable-computing choice for the wet, hot and sun-baked environment of his outdoor laboratory in Mexico: the Panasonic Toughbook. “It’s not my job to criticize the iPad, but for our experiment, we needed something indestructible,” said Jack Kassewitz, a researcher behind SpeakDolphin, an organization investigating communication between … Read more