Introducing the rPhone

I have a fondness for steampunk techno-gear. This probably dates back to my time spent with steamthreshers. The parody of the iPhone is great too.

ESPN page 2 on Malcolm Gladwell

The New Yorker guy from Elmira who hits cleanup, (what a great line) has an email exchange with Bill Simmons that is the kind of reading that makes the Internet and RSS work for me.

“So I always thought to myself, “Well, maybe he kicks my ass as a writer, but I guarantee he’s a huge dork who knows nothing about sports and couldn’t talk to a girl to save his life.” Then we went out for drinks in New York City in December, argued about basketball and football for three hours, and then some smoking-hot bartender started hitting on you at the end of the night.”Hockey as C- television? but A+ live. What is that? It is true that hockey is truly fantastic live but C- TV I don’t think so. I think that baseball is A+ radio while hockey would be C- radio, (and yes I still think radio matters).

Read the whole deal here.

Friday diversions

There are a many things about RSS readers that make the Internet a truly enjoyable place but few reach the heights of BPotD, aka Botany Photo of the Day.
Today’s entry is a perfect example. Not only is the image a truly beautiful one but the author, Daniel Mosquin uses it to pass / link / reference a fascinating article by John Walker co-author of AutoCAD sofware.

And with diversions in mind, this site from Tim Bray provides a perfect bit of Friday frolic.

Procrastination can be good

Paul Graham talks about the good and the bad of procrastination.

So Hamming’s exercise can be generalized to:

What’s the best thing you could be working on, and why aren’t you?

Full story here.

Kid Joke

Kid JokeOriginally uploaded by Lost boy.

I don’t know what the joke was that they are sharing but it looks funny in a truly infectious way.