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TED Talk from Barry Schwartz: Using our Practical Wisdom

Barry Schwartz delivers another great TED Talk re: the importance of developing and promoting wisdom rather than our current – and often disastrous – cultural tendencies to substitute rules, procedures, scripted processes etc. Here’s a link to a similar talk he delivered in 2009, and a link to his fantastic “Paradox of Choice” talk.
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Darth Vader Pumpkin

We had a lot of fun carving pumpkins today. Darth Vader was a hit with most of our trick-or-treaters:
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A short list of podcasts to check out

Here are some of the podcasts I’ve been listening to lately. These are very enjoyable if you’re interested in science, skeptical thought, critical thinking, etc. Perhaps not so enjoyable if you’re into New Age healing, creationism, pseudo-science, etc. (but if you are, you should definitely start listening!) Skeptoid by Brian Dunning Skepticality (one of the [...]
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Tim O’Reilly’s keynote at Drupalcon

Tim O’Reilly (@timoreilly) did a magnificent job at his keynote presentation at Drupalcon. You can download the slides here on Slideshare. Hopefully the video will be online sometime soon.
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At Drupalcon, San Francisco

I’m at #drupalcon in San Francisco with @frogpod. Will be posting stuff throughout the conference. If you want to see more real-time updates follow me on Twitter
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More bad news for newspapers

The Wall Street Journal published an article today about the increasingly rapid decline of newspaper circulation around the US. Citing a report from the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the WSJ is now the largest paper in terms of circulation, and actually saw a slight rise in their numbers. Everyone else on the list dropped, and [...]
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DROID DOES: New Android Smartphone from Verizon

Looks like Verizon’s going to be releasing a new Google Android phone in the near future. Check out the “Droid Does” viral marketing site they’ve set up; they take some pretty funny potshots at the iPhone: “iDon’t have a real keyboard… iDon’t allow open development…” PC World has a blog post up about the new [...]
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Great screencasts and presentations

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