Picks and finds from Erica Tesla. Little elaboration here, kiddies; if you’re looking for that, go to my blog. I largely post stuff here to distribute stuff to friends - stuff that otherwise I’d forget to IM them (or whatever) - or to save it for me, for later. Yes, I am so scatterbrained I have to blog stuff to myself.Tumblr (3.0; @sperari)http://sperari.tumblr.com/<img src="http://6.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktlie8wu4e1qz4gl9o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.savagechickens.com/2009/11/the-plan.html">The Plan Cartoon | Savage Chickens - Cartoons on Sticky Notes by Doug Savage</a></p>http://sperari.tumblr.com/post/255188271http://sperari.tumblr.com/post/255188271Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:13:20 -0600“An organization that wins by exercising power starts to lose the ability to win by doing better work.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://paulgraham.com/apple.html">Apple’s Mistake</a> (via <a href="http://www.instapaper.com/">Instapaper</a>)</em>http://sperari.tumblr.com/post/253330272http://sperari.tumblr.com/post/253330272Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:31:41 -0600“Why Barack Obama and Manmohan Singh should say as little as possible when they meet in Washington next week.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/11/20/boring_summits_are_better_for_everyone">Boring Summits Are Better for Everyone (Foreign Policy)</a></em>http://sperari.tumblr.com/post/251483294http://sperari.tumblr.com/post/251483294Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:48:49 -0600“Current computer design lets you see lots of information at once. You can have many open windows and a blizzard of indicators to tell you just about anything you would ever want to know about your computer. However, a desktop isn’t an airplane cockpit. No one dies if your wifi drops from four bars to three. Instead, we’ve crossed the line from utility to continuous partial attention.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://litl.com/essays/philosophy.htm">litl :: philosophy</a></em>http://sperari.tumblr.com/post/249472443http://sperari.tumblr.com/post/249472443Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:08:23 -0600“An old saw in science fiction is that a sci-fi writer can take the automobile and the movie theater and predict the drive-in. But the drive-in is dead, and the echoes of its social consequences are fading to negligibility; on the other hand, the fact that the automobile was responsible for the first form of widely carried photo ID and is thus the progenitor of the entire surveillance state went unremarked-upon by “predictive” sci-fi.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://tinhousebooks.com/blog/?p=410">CORY DOCTOROW: RADICAL PRESENTISM – Tin House Books Blog</a> (via <a href="http://www.instapaper.com/">Instapaper</a>)</em>http://sperari.tumblr.com/post/245726204http://sperari.tumblr.com/post/245726204Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:27:05 -0600<a href="http://thepioneerwoman.com/homeschooling/2009/11/illustrate-and-write/">Homeschooling (Pioneer Woman)</a>: <p>Just a kid learning to read and write. But oh so awesome.</p>http://sperari.tumblr.com/post/234628389http://sperari.tumblr.com/post/234628389Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:48:57 -0600<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/bKKDKAKNH-k&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/bKKDKAKNH-k&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>Impersonations by Kevin Spacey (Full Video) (via <a href="http://youtube.com/user/wcome2myworld">wcome2myworld</a>)</p>http://sperari.tumblr.com/post/232653457http://sperari.tumblr.com/post/232653457Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:58:21 -0600<img src="http://5.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kse8pfM5ns1qz4gl9o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Why net neutrality is important (via <a href="http://petelumbis.org/blog/?p=1197">PeteLumbis.org</a>)</p>http://sperari.tumblr.com/post/229106061http://sperari.tumblr.com/post/229106061Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:27:12 -0500<a href="http://www.intosudoku.com/Doc/Index.html">Sudoku</a>: <p>A great resource on solving Sudoku puzzles, particularly the really hard ones.</p>http://sperari.tumblr.com/post/223569974http://sperari.tumblr.com/post/223569974Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:08:30 -0500<img src="http://16.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ks2vyxPi7K1qz4gl9o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.partiallyclips.com/index.php?id=1626">PartiallyClips - A Webcomic for Grownups</a></p>http://sperari.tumblr.com/post/222855536http://sperari.tumblr.com/post/222855536Sun, 25 Oct 2009 11:18:32 -0500<object id="flashObj" width="400" height="224" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0"><param name="movie" value="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9/42806370001?isVid=1&publisherID=293884104" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><param name="flashVars" value="videoId=42968550001&linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fvideo%2Fplayer%2F0%2C32068%2C42968550001_1927247%2C00.html&playerID=42806370001&domain=embed&" /><param name="base" value="http://admin.brightcove.com" /><param name="seamlesstabbing" value="false" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="swLiveConnect" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><embed src="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9/42806370001?isVid=1&publisherID=293884104" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" flashvars="videoId=42968550001&linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fvideo%2Fplayer%2F0%2C32068%2C42968550001_1927247%2C00.html&playerID=42806370001&domain=embed&" base="http://admin.brightcove.com" name="flashObj" width="400" height="224" seamlesstabbing="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" swliveconnect="true" allowscriptaccess="always" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></embed></object><br/><br/>http://sperari.tumblr.com/post/211393522http://sperari.tumblr.com/post/211393522Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:27:19 -0500<img src="http://3.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kqpi2bfq0m1qz4gl9o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.explosm.net/comics/1809/">Comics - Explosm.net</a></p>http://sperari.tumblr.com/post/199610990http://sperari.tumblr.com/post/199610990Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:15:47 -0500<img src="http://5.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kp73mqhxCD1qz4gl9o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>via <a href="http://imgur.com/GyddD.png">imgur.com</a></p>http://sperari.tumblr.com/post/175491497http://sperari.tumblr.com/post/175491497Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:13:38 -0500<img src="http://23.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_koys4q6yzS1qz4gl9o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>You -must- read this whole thing. It’s amazing. And now I’m contemplating spending several thousand dollars on dinner for two in Spain. (via <a href="http://www.amateurgourmet.com/2009/08/dinner_at_el_bu.html">Dinner at El Bulli: The Greatest Restaurant in the World - The Amateur Gourmet</a>)</p>http://sperari.tumblr.com/post/171808189http://sperari.tumblr.com/post/171808189Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:24:25 -0500<img src="http://9.media.tumblr.com/HwTVbIQ5Dpslvjv3jr2HMGs7o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.latfh.com/post/167506984/look-at-this-fucking-law-order-summary-via">lookatthisfuckinghipster</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Look at this fucking Law & Order summary.</p> <p>(via <a href="http://cosmopsis.tumblr.com/">cosmopsis</a>)</p> </blockquote>http://sperari.tumblr.com/post/167827443http://sperari.tumblr.com/post/167827443Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:01:27 -0500<a href="http://sudokugrab.blogspot.com/2009/07/how-does-it-all-work.html">iPhone Sudoku Grab: How does it all work?</a>http://sperari.tumblr.com/post/161715514http://sperari.tumblr.com/post/161715514Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:18:47 -0500<img src="http://15.media.tumblr.com/SFQsUIn56r24tgbjVNaH4wmXo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>via <a href="http://www.superpoop.com/081209/americas-military-leaders.jpg"><a href="http://www.superpoop.com">www.superpoop.com</a></a></p>http://sperari.tumblr.com/post/161549658http://sperari.tumblr.com/post/161549658Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:42:27 -0500“Wait, the conservative opponent of health care reform, fighting (literally) to defeat a plan that would bring coverage to those who lose their jobs, lost his coverage because he got laid off?”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_08/019423.php">The Washington Monthly</a></em>http://sperari.tumblr.com/post/160121725http://sperari.tumblr.com/post/160121725Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:49:30 -0500<a href="http://www.tweak.com/phonetag/hector/">Tweak: Phone Tag - Hector Rivera</a>: <p>Stories from a bounty hunter.</p>http://sperari.tumblr.com/post/159193645http://sperari.tumblr.com/post/159193645Sun, 09 Aug 2009 11:07:15 -0500<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/technology/28texting.html?_r=2&hp">Driven to Distraction: Texting Raises Crash Risk 23 Times, Study Finds (NYTimes.com)</a>http://sperari.tumblr.com/post/150464151http://sperari.tumblr.com/post/150464151Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:15:04 -0500