December 2009
How to Disagree →
This should be required reading…
YouTube Auto Buffer & Auto HD & Remove Ads for... →
Magic!
Gordon Crovitz: Technology Predictions Are Mostly... →
Arthur C. Clarke, the science fiction writer, identified what he called the “three laws of prediction,” reflecting an optimistic view of ingenuity: 1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong; 2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible...
'Nullius in verba'
take nobody’s word for it
Motto of the Royal Society. Explained much more eloquently by them, but coming from Horace…
Ac ne forte roges, quo me duce, quo lare tuter, Nullius addictus iurare in verba magistri. (Horace, Epistles I.i, 1.13-14)
You shall not ask for whom I fight Nor in what school my peace I find; I say no master has the right To swear me to obedience blind. ...
“It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem....”
– Douglas Adams
“Lack of proof isn’t a weakness, either. On the contrary, claiming...”
– Five Major Misconceptions about Evolution
Terrific summing up.
Sense About Science | National Petition for Libel... →
This is important.
WatchThe original film - C’etait un rendez-vous - is almost better, because you can hear the car over the top. Although it’s apparently dubbed. The sequence was filmed in a big old merc.
Posted here with the song, cos it’s good & without it I’d never have known the film existed.
“That woman was sexy…Out of your league? Son. Let women figure out why they...”
– http://twitter.com/shitmydadsays
“Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the...”
– Horace (via reluctantbuddha)
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”
– Robert Frost (via simtan)
“Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will...”
– Winston Churchill (via reluctantbuddha)
Zhan Zhuang, Standing Post, Standing QiGong →
12 Principles ....
For training.
1. continuity- consistency getting in the gym and working out 2. Understanding- understanding what your doing, why and knowledge. 3. recovery- good sleep, nutrition, and day off 4. solid foundation- gotta have basics before the complex 5. Individualization- know your weaknesses and where you need to improve. 6. specialization- planning and changing to develop new skills 7....
Just one exercise? →
