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
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

Jan
13th

Thu

Oh man. No. Have you watched our season?

— head coach of the Seattle Seahawks Pete Carroll, when asked if he was worried about the team getting overconfident prior to their divisional playoff matchup against the Chicago Bears

Jan
11th

Tue

Anyway, go Seahawks. Because sometimes the meek have to throw a few knees to the groin to inherit the earth.

— SF Bay area columnist Ray Ratto, commenting on the 7-9 Seahawks improbable wild-card defeat of the world champion New Orleans Saints

I was there for three years and it was the hardest 10 years I’ve ever had.

— Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carrol commenting on his tenure as head coach of the New England Patriots

Dec
4th

Sat

Investing in the CCD camera before a stop sign seems like an odd decision