Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- The surreal treehoppers – Funny world, ennit?
- How Ma Bell Shelved the Future for 60 Years [Book Excerpt] – "Yes, Bell Labs was great. But AT&T, as an innovator, bore a serious genetic flaw: it could not originate technologies that might, by the remotest possibility, threaten the Bell system. In the language of innovation theory, the output of the Bell Labs was practically restricted to sustaining inventions; disruptive technologies, those that might even cast a shadow of uncertainty over the business model, were simply out of the question." The free market may be great at driving competition in many ways, which is generally a good thing for customers. But where the market is not free — within companies, or when there is no competition — the results are usually not all that helpful.
- I’m Blond license plate – HA!
- A Yuletide Gift of Kindness – Very cool.
- The Cognitive Cost Of Expertise | Wired Science | Wired.com – An interesting idea — and applicable to the idea of conservatism among established scientists and experts.
- If I Said I’m Thankful for the Wisdom of the American People, Would You Think I’m Crazy?: Abbas Raza
- Special Relativity Simply Explained: lcfr
- Brian Blessed voice now available for TomTom devices – Ooooh … that’d be cool.
- New York Newspaper’s Historical Story Of Thanksgiving Has Posters Calling It “Liberal Propaganda” – Because some people think it’s more virtuous to believe in a demonstrably false myth than search for the truth.
- Unmarried Women Banned From Using Cellphones in Indian Village [Cellphones] – Rrg. Stupid religio-cultural fascists …
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I’ll see your Brian Blessed and raise you a Dora and Spongebob.