3/11/2010

2011 Ford Mustang V-6 305 horsepower and 31 mpg.

awesome!
It's the first time a production car has achieved over 30mpg *and* over 300 horsepower.
Too little too late, but still a step in the right direction (even though this should have been achieved 20 years ago.)

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/03/mustang_v6_31_mpg/

3 problems with Facebook

1. it confuses broadcasting with communication. They can't both be done at the same time, and they can't both be done well.

2. it merges your social venn diagram to one big circle with you in the middle.
previously you would separate different facets of your life and the people associated with them by time and space. Facebook collapses groups of people you know from different circumstances into one group.

3. friendships that are "strong ties" don't require facebook, because you're already in constant communication. facebook is for friendships that are "weak ties" (acquaintances and fake friends).

3/04/2010

How do you find out *how* to be who you *need* to be?

I don't know either.

Caucasian Mummies Found In China

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarim_mummies

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/chinamum/taklamakan.html

Garden of Eden found?!?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1157784/Do-mysterious-stones-mark-site-Garden-Eden.html

The Others

A lot of people NEED opposition.
REQUIRE an us against them feeling in order to get anything done.
This is a fault that needs to be overcome.

you can change your homepage to something more interesting

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RandomPage
make it so your homepage is always a random wikipedia page.
this way you can learn something new everytime you click the home button.

or try
http://fav4.org/
you can choose your favorite 4 websites and put image links to them on this page. it's simple, and neat. give it a look.

Everyday life isn't epic!

Everyday life will never feel epic.
Everyday life is filled with normal everyday things.
Besides, if everyday life really felt epic, you would have raised the bar and made "epic" the new normal, meaning you'd have a new and higher "epic threshold" anyway.