very popular Text Editor for MacOs X (more)

Bucky Fuller joke idea for people/companies that Make Money from useless crap. The prototypical product was gold-plating your baby's last crap-filled diaper as a memento. (more)

A "standard" format for a user's Life Streaming feed from a site, to ease the process of integrating multiple balkanized feeds into a Universal Inbox. (more)

Trying to help/nudge Number One Son toward Learning To Make Art For Computer Games.

Watts Martin on the hassles around the "sandboxed documents" model in IOS, spreading to MacOs X. Mac AppStore applications must be “sandboxed” the way iOS applications are. iOS applications include documents in their sandboxes: a document “owned” by an application can only be seen by that application. If I save a Markdown document in Byword on my iPad, no other iPad application—even if I have dozens of other ones that can handle plain text—can see it, unless I can use “Open in…” from in Byword itself... I’ve argued in the past that the kind of “open” we should really care about is Open Data. It shouldn’t matter whether I’m using Emacs or BBEdit or Byword for text, GIMP or Photoshop or Acorn to edit a PNG file, Alpine or Postbox to access mail on IMAP servers. If all of your meaningful data is open, you seriously reduce the friction inherent in switching applications or even computing Platform-s. (more)

Mark Manson: How to Make Your Own Luck (more)

Shannon Brownlee says a number of doctors/researchers doubt The Flu orthodoxy - the effectiveness of the Flu Vaccine and antivirals. What if flu vaccines do not protect people from dying--particularly the elderly, who account for 90 percent of deaths from seasonal flu? And what if the expensive antiviral drugs that the government has stockpiled over the past few years also have little, if any, power to reduce the number of people who die or are hospitalized? (more)

another nightmare for Geeks With Kids (more)

founder of possibly the first Venture Capital firm (more)

Robin Hanson says that much of our HealthCare spending is a waste. (more)

New Tech Network is a nonprofit organization that works with schools, districts and communities to implement innovative public High School-s. http://www.newtechnetwork.org/ (more)

sources of capital for investment by private and public groups in a Corporation (more)

Shorthand I associate with Dave Winer - short for Big Company (Big Corporation). Typically used with disdain, referring to bureaucracy, CYA behavior, etc. Could apply to a software maker (e.g. Sun) or a big customer (typically Enterprise buyer of SAP, overpriced CMS packages, etc.). (more)

aka C-Corporation (more)

Industrial Design-er, Celebrity (I passed a blocked-off storefront in NYC with a big sign promoting a coming-soon restaurant "designed by Karim Rashid" - the chef wasn't mentioned) (more)

aka "Enterprise 2.0", aka "SocialEnterprise" (more)

A piece about Venezuela's El Sistema collection of children's orchestras. According to (Jose Abreu's) approach, musical perfection is not the first priority; instead, from the first day on, what's important is being able to play together with others. The children are integrated into orchestras from the very beginning, and the older children pass their knowledge down to the younger ones. Abreu's intention and philosophy is concealed behind this simple concept: for him an orchestra is first and foremost about togetherness, a place where children learn to listen to each other and to respect one another. The purpose of the work is the integration of the children into a united social structure, in which each individual assumes responsibility and contributes to a commonly achieved result. (Shared Mission, Educating Kids) (more)

School of Rock (formerly known as The Paul Green School of Rock Music) is a performance-based music program for those between the ages of 8 and 18. This for-profit educational company operates and franchises after-school music instruction (Musical Instrument) schools in the United States and Mexico, serving nearly 8,000 students in 101 locations,[1] becoming the largest After School music program in the country.[2] Students are accepted at any skill level, with the goal getting them on stage, playing a concert before a paying audience. The most skilled students in each school form a band and play concerts in their city, and the top students from each school compete to become a member of an "All-Star" band and tour regionally. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paul_Green_School_of_Rock_Music (more)

The 2nd annual Google Science Fair just ended. Unfortunately the website is horrible - couldn't there be a page with 1-sentence project summaries (or even just titles!?!?) for at least the 15 finalists? So I'll be a bit obsessive. (more)

part of Intermediate Mathematics (more)