“Ultimately—regardless of one’s intentions—the Paleo diet is founded more on privilege than on logic. Hunter–gatherers in the Paleolithic hunted and gathered because they had to. Paleo dieters attempt to eat like hunter–gatherers because they want to.” — How to Really Eat Like a Hunter-Gatherer: Why the Paleo Diet Is Half-Baked [Interactive & Infographic]: Scientific American
On a recent car ride with the family, when everyone in the car but the driver, me, was asleep, I spent a little time letting my mind free associate on recent technology announcements. One that was really floating through my head was how at the most recent…
“When my daughter was born, I got a nice card from my uncle saying that my child’s laughter would be the sweetest sound I would ever hear. But that’s a lie. Children have two kinds of laughter. The first is the genuine kind, the kind my uncle was talking about. The other is the I’M-ABOUT-TO-DO-EVIL-SHIT laugh. The criminal mastermind laugh. Mwahahahahaha. I dread that laugh because it means someone is about to cry or something is about to fucking break. By the time a child is four or five, this is pretty much the only kind of laugh you hear out of them.” — Someone Could Get Hurt: A Memoir of Twenty-First-Century Parenthood - exclusive excerpt - Boing Boing
“Slazinger claims to have learned from history that most people cannot open their minds to new ideas unless a mind-opening teams with a peculiar membership goes to work on them. Otherwise, life will go on exactly as before, no matter how painful, unrealistic, unjust, ludicrous, or downright dumb that life may be.” — The three types of specialist
Words that last - Graphic - The Washington Post
Windex, for spotless Google Glass
Google Glass has so far been very divisive, especially for a product that is barely a developer…
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This is a speech I recently presented at my local Toastmaster’s club. It is part of a larger discussion I’ve done a few times about Responsive Web Design. I wanted to do…
“Organic Mechanics are frightening. They have extreme depth of knowledge, but there is no obvious organic thread which ties it all together. Here’s the scary part. There is a thread. There is a purpose. They just aren’t letting you see it. Organic Mechanics will keep you on your heels and just when you think you’ve figured them out, they’ll change everything. I hate that.” —
Organics and Mechanics: Rands In Repose
I read that and think, wow, it sounds so like what I hear rattling around in my own head all day.
Decoding Apple Announcements
One thing that I really wish I could ask the Apple executive team is why and when they decide to…
“Phil’s title should be Humble Math-Addled Keeper of the Peace whereas Felix would be The Dark Lord of Performance and Snark. Their jobs are clearly as engineers, but defining a single title is a slippery exercise in comparing two things that are incomparable.” — Titles are Toxic: Rands In Repose