Archive for the 'Culture' Category

Asymmetric Architecture

August 22, 2008

Down with squares and rectangles! Long live parallelograms!
Of course there are plenty of examples out there of plain shapes capturing the public imagination. The Empire State building was probably one of the first, but, I think, the most beautiful of the New York lot has to be the Chrysler Building.
Especially true when compared to some [...]

“George W. Bush is a conservative” and other myths

August 11, 2008

I can understand some of the confusion here since certainly he entertains (some) conservative viewpoints. However, Bush is anything but a conservative as true conservatives would understand the concept.
Let’s look into some of these misconceptions so we can really filter out who or what we understand and where we stand in regard to our own [...]

Shatner Remix

August 6, 2008

Achieve Nerdvana recently posted the DJ Spock segment. It’s a brilliant combination of old school mixing with old school Trek.
Now comes the new school mix by Shatner

How customers get screwed

August 4, 2008

Found courtesy of Nathan Fuller

Re: How to succeed at failing

August 3, 2008

This started off as just a comment to Shannon Quinn’s post “How to succeed at failing” but it got far too long due to my propensity for verbal diarrhea. ;)
Case Study 1
If you’ve ever seen the movie, Men In Black…
Jay, the potential recruit (Will Smith) asks :
“Why the big secret? People are smart. They can handle [...]