- Going rogue inside a big company (a la Best Buy) – (37signals) – Electronics retailing giant Best Buy offers one of the most innovative workplaces around. And much of it is because bold employees there decided to go rogue. For example, Steve Bendt and Gary Koelling are the creators of Blue Shirt Nation (BSN), the massively successful online community for Best Buy employees. Within a year of creating the site, 20,000 (of Best Buy’s 150,000) employees had signed up. They meet there and share knowledge, best practices, ideas for improving the stores, and more.
- Mindf*ck Movies by Matthew Baldwin – The Morning News – There’s a certain brand of movie that I most enjoy. Some people call them “Puzzle Movies.” Others call them “Brain Burners.” Each has, at some point or another, been referred to as “that flick I watched while I was baked out of my mind.”
- Sign Digital Photos With Your Own Handwriting | MakeUseOf.com – YourFonts provides an easy way to get your handwriting into a font. After that, it’s all very simple. I’m writing this on the basis that you’re a Windows user, but I’m sure you’ll be able to translate my instructions if not.
If you’ve ever fiddled with fonts before you’ll know that constructing them is not the simplest thing in the world. Truetype fonts are essentially vector representations of the characters within them, and creating them is a little….well, let’s say….laborious.
Kabir discussed how to do this just a few days ago, and has listed a few great tools to help out, and you can learn a whole lot more about fonts there. Go ahead and do that if you like. The rest us are going to cheat, and use YourFonts instead.
- GOOD » Fifty Lines to Woo Your Lover» – Valentine’s Day is nigh. If you do not have time to hit Victoria’s Secret, are broke, or eschew material goods as tokens of love, why not lavish your amour with a romantic gift as green as it gets? Recite a poem.
- UStarnovels.com Homepage – Customizable romance (Erotic?) novels…
- How Could 9,000 Business Reporters Blow It? | Mother Jones – A former Wall Street Journal writer dissects why business reporters bought the bull—and missed the biggest story on their beat.
- Seed: Adapting to a New Economy – But can the relation of evolution to economics go further than skin-deep terminology? Can it actually change the face of the discipline? For more than a century, the scientific undercarriage of economic theory has been physics, the neoclassical idea that predictions can be based on a series of unchanging and universal laws. Swapping out the forecasts and equilibriums of physics for the complexity and chaos of biology's main engine would require a complete makeover.
- The Scientist : Challenger’s Whistle-Blower: Hero And Outcast [20/1/1990] – When the shuttle Challenger blew up, the explosion lit a fuse in Roger Boisjoly's conscience. A structural engineer for Morton Thiokol Inc., the firm that later bore blame for the disaster, Boisjoly had argued against the launch the night before and, like the rest of the nation, watched in horror when the shuttle blew up.
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