February 2012
7 posts
WatchHappy Valentine’s day me love
“There was a knock on our dressing room door. Our manager shouted, ‘Keith! Ron!...”
– Keith Richards, 1982 (via thelustforglory)
At the age of five Albert Einstein got private lessons from a tutor. However, this did not last long as Albert had thrown a chair after his tutor because he was in a bad temper. In the same year he also began to learn the violin. From 1885 when he was six years old he attended “Petersschule”, a catholic elementary school in Munich. Due to a report card from school Albert’s mother...
January 2012
19 posts
This Tech Bubble Is Different - BusinessWeek →
After a couple years at Facebook, Hammerbacher grew restless. He figured that much of the groundbreaking computer science had been done. Something else gnawed at him. Hammerbacher looked around Silicon Valley at companies like his own, Google (GOOG), and Twitter, and saw his peers wasting their talents. “The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads,” he says....
Opposites (don't) attract
Although we love to repeat this optimistic cliche about human nature, decades of psychological research have demonstrated that the truism isn’t true. Rather, people seek out people who are just like them. This is known as the similarity-attraction effect, or SAE. Although there is slight variation in the strength of the effect, the SAE has been shown to exist in nearly every culture, from Western...
“Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the...”
– Pink Floyd
“If aliens decided to visit us then the outcome might be similar to when...”
– Stephen Hawkings on BBC News - Today - Hawking on the future of mankind
December 2011
22 posts
“I would kill for these young, sweet little feline souls, these two boys. I would...”
– Robert Downey Jr., on his cats Montgomery and Dartanian.
In the 1980s, Pablo Escobar's Medellin Cartel...
November 2011
32 posts
Steve Jobs Was Right
Back in April, Apple had a bit of a PR problem when it was discovered that iPhones were storing a cache of data on which GPS locations that handset had visited in an unencrypted file. The whole thing was just a bug, but the controversy was dubbed LocationGate, and Apple even had to testify in front of the Senate about the matter.
The whole fiasco even prompted an email from Steve Jobs, which...
