Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

As the Star Trek juggernaut barrels through pop culture again, many of my co-workers and non-Trek friends are asking us what the hell the big deal is. In our house, Star Trek was our post-Sunday morning mass + donuts for breakfast TV programming. And then when the Next Generation show came on it was the […]

I think LinkedIn is a fantastic site that grows in value through gradual cultivation. I’ve worked in several industries, in several cities, and it wasn’t until these different transitions started to accumulate that I started to collect a truly valuable set of contacts – and I didn’t do that ‘add anyone and everyone‘ approach but […]

I’ve always wondered if maybe the human impetus to tell stories and the near-universal ingredients of a ripping yarn are perhaps genetic – that the human brain feels joy when being told a great story (this would plug into Joseph Cambell’s monomyth theory). I point to spiderweb patterns as examples of animals that create certain […]

Don’t forget to floss: So, how do you brush your teeth in space? So, start by filling a drink bag with water and bring it with you to the hygiene area. Tuck it behind a rubber bungee. Remove your hygiene kit from behind its bungee and unzip it. Find your toothbrush inside of your hygiene […]

From a discussion on Metafilter: Yeah, I don’t think the problem is that it is music for children, but that it is so thoroughly product. That being said, if you don’t believe The Stones were also product, and if you think rock and rolls “sex, drugs, groupies, etc.” narrative is often equally inauthentic and equally […]

A look behind the six-day marathon to create one episode of South Park. Keep in mind that one Simpsons episode takes 3 months to produce: Each episode of “South Park” comes to life in 6 days, start to finish — a crazy pace for an animated series Even crazier: each episode arrives at Comedy Central […]

Garret Murray is an iPhone app developer and a change in Google Analytics caused his app to suddenly stop working properly. He fixed the problem and uploaded the new version of the app to the App Store where it languishes – waiting to be approved by Apple – while customers leave terrible reviews on iTunes […]

Stop paying those pesk licensing fees. [link]

Web designer Dustin Brewer does the legwork on which fonts to use online: Below I have included a table listing out all of the most common fonts and what operating systems they usually come with. Granted most machines have a lot more fonts then this, the ones I have listed are the most popular and […]

Andy Sernovitz on gratitude: By getting good at making your talkers feel appreciated and recognized, you’ll find they talk about you ten times as often. Here’s a few ways to get started: 1) Thank them personally 2) Thank them publicly 3) Thank them regularly. [link via @shermanhu]