December 30, 2008 – 5:34 pm
That is how much we will all collectively get at the end of this year. Do not forget to adjust your countdown to …3, …2, …1, …1 before welcoming the new year. Happy new year in advance to all.
Via Reuters reporting:
The world’s official timekeepers have added a “leap second” to the last day of the [...]
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Also tagged ...2, ...3, 1, atomic clock, countdown, earth, extra second, leap second, leap year, new year, rotation, second
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December 24, 2008 – 6:33 pm
In the spirit of continuing the process of correlating concepts in physics/science with that of day-to-day human behaviors, here we will discuss why some ideas go viral and others do not. The formulation presented here concerns with the idea of quantum tunneling. When a wave-like entity at a quantum scale encounters a potential barrier of a higher energy than [...]
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Also tagged advertising, barrier, genesis, ideas, marketing, physics, potential, publicity, quantum mechanics, quantum tunneling, refinement, science, tunneling, viral, Writings
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December 22, 2008 – 4:41 pm
So asks Seth Godin in a post that explores the implications of the explosion in content creation and dissemination. Below is an excerpt of the post:
… Of course, the decentralized nature of the net means that it will never be physically full. As long as we can keep making hard drives, we won’t run out of [...]
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Also tagged attention, books, expertise, information, internet, printing press, search, seth godin, Writings
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December 20, 2008 – 4:31 pm
That is the question. Of late, I have started to give a serious thought about whether our concept of time is slightly distorted or not. The common answer one gets to an enquiry made about why a certain task is not completed is “I had no time” or “I was busy.” I must say I am [...]
December 19, 2008 – 12:29 am
Along with their story about the selection of Barack Obama as the person of the year, Time has pictures of him taken in 1980 by Lisa Jack, a then-20-year-old-aspiring-photographer.
Chance Encounter
In 1980, when Obama was a freshman at Occidental College in Los Angeles, he was approached by an aspiring photographer named Lisa Jack, who asked him [...]
December 18, 2008 – 11:29 pm
Here is a list of Time’s choice for pictures of the year. The following two I find telling about the current state of affairs of the world.
Here is a candidate of a major party for the presidency of the U.S. having to be patted down before boarding a plane. I find it amazing to think that [...]
December 18, 2008 – 11:03 pm
The “Person of the Year” has been chosen to be Barack Obama. Given the unprecedented nature of his accomplishment and the far-reaching consequence of his election to become the 44th president of the U.S., this decision did not surprise me all that much. The runners-up were Henry Paulson, Nicolas Sarkozy, Sarah Palin, and Zhang Yimou. They [...]
December 17, 2008 – 11:33 pm
Below is an extract from a blog entry posted by Amy Sullivan at Swampland, on August 29, 2008, that I thought was an accurate assessment and reflects some of the sentiment I described in the previous post. I am quoting it here in its entirety for your reading pleasure:
You’d think we’d remember by now. Obama and his [...]
