August 2010
34 posts published in August 2010.
- Question 243 of 365: What is our greatest coup?The greatest accomplishments of my life have been evolutionary. I went to college after high school. I got married after college. I had children…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 242 of 365: How do we build things that we want to own?Image by JOE MARINARO via Flickr The New Belgium Brewing Company has only been around for 19 years. Every employee owns part of the company after…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- All Educational Twitter Chats in One CalendarUpdate [05.20.2011]: Sarah Kaiser made one of these too, and it may be more up to date than the one below. I few weeks back I recognized a need…
- Question 241 of 365: What is a unisexual?Image via Wikipedia U is for unicycle. I know because a toy told me. My daughter asked me about the validity of that statement. She wanted to know…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Edmodo for Online Schools… wait, for all schools.Image via CrunchBase (Cross-posted on the Edmodo Blog. I have not taken any money for this endorsement. They just asked if I would write a…
- Question 240 of 365: Why are lists important?It is my 6th wedding anniversary. Every year, my wife and I make a list of all of the memorable things that have happened since our last…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 239 of 365: Who are the happiest employees?Those who have slides at their workplaces. It can be outside or in between floors of a building, but having a slide is required. Posted via email…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 238 of 365: Why is everything a phone?I just got the message today that I am now able to call domestic phone numbers from gmail. In one fell swoop, Google has become my default phone…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 237 of 365: Is the username dying?Image via Wikipedia I remember Hackers, the awkward mid-90’s movie, fondly. It represented a do-it-yourself future in which those who understood…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 236 of 365: Who wins when others fail?Image via Wikipedia I don’t want to hear about other people not doing their jobs right. It isn’t interesting, novel, or beneficial. It may make…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 235 of 365: What is the real nightmare of testing?Cover of Waking Life I don’t put much stock in dreams, at least not the kind that you can have when you sleep. Most of the time, I like to think…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 234 of 365: What is the new mix?Image via Wikipedia I used to make music mixes for every occasion of my life. For birthdays, for anniversaries, and for Christmas. There was no…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 233 of 365: What is a morale dilemma?My morale is conflicted. In tending the communities I created, I have constructed an almost impossible conundrum for myself. It goes something…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 232 of 365: Where is aspen, colorado?I’m pretty sure its on another planet. Yep. Pretty sure. Posted via email from The Throughput365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 231 of 365: What are the technologies that never die?The 8 track tape is dead. No one has produced new music on one for a number of decades now. The UHF radio station is dead. Everything over the…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 230 of 365: What is a proportionate response?I once found a Nike hat in a Best Buy parking lot. No one was around and it looked to be in pretty good shape. I picked it up and wiped off the…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 229 of 365: Who started it?Image via Wikipedia Sometimes the best ideas are not our own. Definitely not mine, anyway. Sometimes when we check into our communities, we…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 228 of 365: How much do we want to see something spectacular?Image by Willderbeast via Flickr I get the feeling that we want the next big thing so badly that we see it in everything we do. We want the…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 227 of 365: What is genuine?We are all works of fiction. No matter how truthful we may try to be, our own stories betray the characatures that we let stand in for us. It is…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 226 of 365: What speaks to us?Image by GDS Infographics via Flickr I have a web alert set up for “social media” in my local area. Anything, whether it is a job or blog post or…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 225 of 365: Are you pumped?I have heard this phrase a number of times in the last day. I’m pumped about that. I think we are in hopeful moments when the thing we feel is…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 224 of 365: Why do we go and go and go?Because we must and must and must. Posted via email from The Throughput365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Questions 222 of 365: How gullible are we?Image by IpUrBeLtZ via Flickr Gullibility is an ironic joke to those who are young. We tell each other that the word isn’t in the dictionary or…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 223 of 365: What forces your hand?Image via Wikipedia My wife got into nursing school today. She took prerequisites, applied, interviewed and was offered a spot in nursing school.…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 221 of 365: Who are we before we have done anything (and who are we after)?Image by SOCIALisBETTER via Flickr I am lucky enough to have kept copies of my earliest resumes. As an assignment in my 11th grade English course,…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 220 of 365: Who do we ask to watch our stuff?Image by The Library of Congress via Flickr I don’t regret leaving my laptop, cell phone, iPad, and portable wifi hotspot on the table. I don’t…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 219 of 365: When do we need to invent places to be?Image by DanieVDM via Flickr The most creative virtual worlds are those that are in our heads. They are the ones that we create out of pure…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 218 of 365: How crippling is indecision?Image by National Library of Scotland via Flickr In the midst of trying to figure about a direction for work, for passion, and for sanity, I find…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 217 of 365: Who spilled?Image via Wikipedia I have always been pretty clumsy. I didn’t know how clumsy until I met my wife. She has a way to showcase nearly every one of…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 216 of 365: What are the right triggers?Image via Wikipedia I’ve been thinking a lot about if-then statements. Those little representations of causality that seem to crop up everywhere.…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 215 of 365: What happens when languages are made irrelevant?Image via Wikipedia This situation now exists: Google Chrome senses when a webpage is written in another language and it translates it on the fly…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 214 of 365: What changes everything?Image by Jesslee Cuizon via Flickr I don’t often make proclamations that I believe to be true for everyone. I don’t do this because I know that…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 213 of 365: Where is the asterisk?Image via Wikipedia I have never understood infomercials. While they may be fun to watch or poke fun at every once in a while, I have never for a…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 212 of 365: Is it going there or coming back that is harder?Image via Wikipedia I rode my bike today from Frisco, Co to Breckenridge, an 8 or 9 mile route one way. The path was a slow grinding incline on…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer