out of John's mind

one moment you're contemplating total world domination,
the next moment you're happy you remembered to button your fly!

wisdom of sorts from John Landerholm

Archive

Mar
17th

Thu

And life goes on. Surreal images from disaster torn Japan.

(Source: wordsonthewall)

Mar
16th

Wed

Many people don’t realize that over geological time, we’re really in a CO2 famine now. Almost never has the CO2 level been as low as it has been in the Holocene (current geologic epoch) - 280 (ppm) that’s unheard of. Most of the time [CO2 levels] have been at least 1000 (ppm) and it’s been quite higher than that.

— Professor William Happer, a physicist at Princeton, testifying in 2009 at the US Senate EPW Commitee Hearings

Mar
13th

Sun

We have 25 or so years invested in the work. Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try and find something wrong with it?

— Response from professor Phil Jones (member of the Hockey Stick team and notorious Climategate participant from the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit) when asked to provide the data necessary for independent scientific confirmation of the Hockey Stick graph

Mar
3rd

Thu

How big is BIG? How big is BIG Ass BIG? Have a look and think again pilgrim.

Mar
1st

Tue

Torture numbers, and they’ll confess to anything.

— Gregg Easterbrook

Feb
27th

Sun

The Value of Failing Small according to Seth Godin

Feb
23rd

Wed

Of course, why not? The Zippo Car. A 1947 masterpiece of American automotive styling melded with the iconic windproof lighter.

Feb
19th

Sat

Technology teaches us how to make innovative kinds of mistakes we could not make before. In fact, asking ourselves how humanity might make entirely new kinds of mistakes is probably the best metric we have for discovering new possiblilities of choice and freedom.

— Kevin Kelley author of “What Technology Wants”

Feb
16th

Wed

Watch Escher’s Impossible Perpetual Motion Waterfall Brought To Life

Tie Your Shoes Faster with the Ian Knot

Ditch the Granny Knot to Tie Your Shoes More Efficiently

Feb
2nd

Wed

In its efforts to be “safe rather than sorry,” precaution becomes myopic. It tends to maximize only one value: safety. Safety trumps innovation. The safest thing to do is to perfect what works and never try anything that could fail, because failure is inherently unsafe.

— Kevin Kelley author of “What Technology Wants”

Feb
1st

Tue

Very few great ideas start out headed toward the greatness they eventually achieve. That means that projecting what harm may come from a technology before it “is” is almost impossible.

— Kevin Kelley author of “What Technology Wants”

Jan
29th

Sat

This video still cracks me up.

Jan
18th

Tue

When you’re born in this world you are given a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America you’re given a front row seat and some of us get to sit there with notebooks.

— George Carlin