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A New Architectural Piece from Slate

Risky Business - Will Santiago Calatrava's high-design style work at Ground Zero? By Christopher Hawthorne

Santiago Calatrava, the 52-year-old Spaniard picked earlier this month to design a big new train and subway station at the World Trade Center site, is a singular figure in the design world: a remarkably inventive architect who's also a civil engineer and a sculptor. But is he a good fit for Ground Zero?

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Stress Test

it says...

So, if you have experienced total stress within the last twelve months of 250 or greater, even with normal stress tolerance, you may be OVERSTRESSED. Persons with Low Stress Tolerance may be OVERSTRESSED at levels as low as 150.

I got a 550! UH!

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Naming something v. Knowing Something

Faith in the game

What's the difference between knowing something and just knowing the name of it? Some of the rifts that still exist decades after the Scopes Monkey Trial would be healed if only the faithful understood that scientists aren't out to get them, and their methods didn't come from the Devil.

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Later in life Feynman remarked how wonderful it was that his dad knew the difference between knowing something, and knowing the name of something. Everthing we're aware of that we don't understand has been given a name, and usually a guessed answer. The names aren't meant to substitute for understanding, and the guesses aren't meant to be accurate—only useful.

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Apple - Any idea why they decided to split the image of the G5 into two image files? Maybe for some simple animation purpose?

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What Google Should Do

Seth Godin with the help of my friend Ramit has put together an interesting and thick eBook to answer the question, "What should Google Do"

These are the most interesting suggestions submitted in the book that I've found:

If I ran Google, one thing I would do is create some incredibly awful search
engines under another name so people would still be thrilled with the simplicity and focus Google offers. (Page 53)

LOL

I’ll just make it simple. For every search you do, 1 cent goes to an investment fund for long term poverty eradication and empowerment. Like the fund that we are in the loop to build up. There is in global interest of having poverty eradicated. My mind is all too set on it to think of anything more than above :). (page 69)

Leave it pretty much as it is. Why try to improve on perfection? (page 76)

Many of the other suggestions were along the lines of re-incorporating things that already exist and are lukewarm, such as dating and paid news-aggregation. A lot of talk was made about "personalized" searches... I have a bad intuition about this. And others were trying to find fancy ways of mixing Blogging with Googling...

Also, this eBook compilation concept is fantastic. Why don't more ppl do it? I also like the landscape PDF format, heck a lot of the PDFs out there are browsed, not printed and read offline... this one I found easy to just click page-down-page up on...

UPDATE: continuing on the ..., even if landscape PDFs are printed, what's wrong with people reading stuff landscape style offline?