Uncategorized

Apr 20, 2011 Even In The Office, Casting Is Everything

How do great managers cultivate excellent performances so consistently? Sometimes it's about moving a star into a supporting role. We continue our Leadership Hall of Fame series, a year-long look at the top business books and authors, with an excerpt from First, Break All the Rules (1999) by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman. Everyone has talents--recurring...

Apr 19, 2011 San Francisco to Paris in two minutes

For your own sake, mute the sound before hitting play and consider right clicking here. I can't tell if this will help or hurt the fearful flier but the auroras are beautiful....

Apr 19, 2011 Google Map Maker for the United States

Via Google Blog...

Apr 18, 2011 Music to melt your brain

I just learned something I wish I hadn't: Before Southern California's Top 40 AM station the Mighty 690 switched formats in 1961 to 24-hours news, it played this song for three days straight. So, of course, I wanted to know what that was like. Just a few rotations in and I think my brain is sufficiently...

Apr 18, 2011 Call all cats to man the capstan

The U.S. Naval Institute has posted a bunch of great photos of "Cats in the Sea Services" that are made even better by captions like, "You may fire when ready, Muffin." This one's of a cat named Wockle perched on the capstan of the USS Flusser in the mid-1920s. According to his biographer, Wockle's saying, "Do not...

Apr 18, 2011 John Zorn, Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed and Philip Glass on Japan

John Zorn, Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed and Philip Glass share memories of Japan following their April 9th benefit concert in New York. John Zorn recalls a torchlight Noh performance at Kiyomizudera, Laurie Anderson a concert in a bamboo forest, Philip Glass the silence of Japanese audiences, and Lou Reed...

Apr 18, 2011 Spike Jonze Presents: Lil Buck and Yo-Yo Ma

via...

Apr 15, 2011 Thanks, Merriam-Webster

All those Flash ads and auto-play Ask the Editor videos compelled me to send an e-mail of complaint following the Major Redesign of 2004, but I'd still put Merriam-Webster.com in my Fav 5, I call on it so often. Plus, I love the nerdy features, like M-W's Top 10 Rare & Amusing Insults ("Who you calling a...

Apr 15, 2011 New York Farm City

Apr 14, 2011 The life of a studio cartoonist

Art historian Stephen Worth has posted a series of studio gags and caricatures by Grim Natwick, whose drawing credits include Betty Boop and Snow White, as part of a series of posts called "Grim Natwick: The Greatest Animator Who Ever Lived."...