Archive for February, 2006
Tuesday, February 28th, 2006
"There are certain classes of meaning to which human beings are innately tuned and for which they actively search."…"Narrative organizes experience and specializes in the forging of links between the exceptional and the ordinary." - Jerome Bruner’s, "Acts of Meaning"
Stories are most powerful and memorable than facts…enough said.
Happy days
Source: quote found via workingstories listserve in [...]
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Monday, February 27th, 2006
“The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end. It is the highest emblem in the cipher of the world.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays -"Circles”
Many friends and colleagues will tell you of my fascination with circles and how [...]
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Saturday, February 25th, 2006
"Innovation is hard to schedule." Dan Fylstra
To read some of my thoughts on innovation visit my post on Vermillion’s blog.
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Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006
The quest for answers, seductive, for questions, joyful! (me*)
But boy can that be hard to accept sometimes!
* was questioning whether to quote myself…it is a reformulation of something I read thanks to Brenda and Marge.
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Tuesday, February 21st, 2006
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure…
Move over Craigslist, next time you need furniture in NY check out Garbage Scout.
An awesome execution - combining the love for the chase, the ever amazing googlemaps and the word "FREE"
Happy hunting for your treasure!
- thanks to Inhabitat for the tip (pun intended)
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Tuesday, February 21st, 2006
Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it
- Lao Tzu
"It is [...]
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Monday, February 20th, 2006
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit"
- Aristotle
What have you been doing lately?
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Friday, February 17th, 2006
Cartoon (c) Michael Leunig
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Thursday, February 16th, 2006
Sometimes you just need a bit of Dali in your life.
"What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of [...]
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Wednesday, February 15th, 2006
Seeing as ‘Single’s Awareness Day’ has come and gone I thought I would take the opportunity to wish you all a beautiful happy and fun-filled Wednesday.
Happy days
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