The impact of the first follower This starts out very silly and fun. By the time it was over, there were tears in my eyes. I hope that you can feel it, too. Here’s a great analysis of the first follower. I think the version of the video that I’ve posted has more raw emotional [...]
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Archive for the ‘life’ Category
Discovery Of Gliese 581g Giving Science A Bad Name
By Lee on Thursday, September 30th, 2010 | No Comments
Image via Wikipedia It used to be that science had some dignity and commanded some respect. It was, after all, SCIENCE! But like everything else in this age, things seem to be unraveling in the world of science. It is no longer sacrosanct. Earlier this year, we learned that environmental “scientists” were cooking the books [...]
Read More...Five Things You Should Have Gotten Into Ten Years Ago
By Lee on Wednesday, September 8th, 2010 | No Comments
Image by callumalden via Flickr In the nightclub scene at the start of an episode of Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld did a great bit about Morning Guy and Night Guy: I never get enough sleep. I stay up late at night, cause I’m Night Guy. Night Guy wants to stay up late. “What about getting up [...]
Read More...Seeing the Milky Way in 3D
By Lee on Monday, August 16th, 2010 | No Comments
We just got back from Hilton Head Island, where we had four days and nights of awesome weather. We left about 12 hours too late (and drove home through torrential storms). But while we were there, we enjoyed some of the darkest black skies I ever remember seeing on the continental United States. The moon [...]
Read More...The end of an era
By Lee on Thursday, July 22nd, 2010 | No Comments
I opened my Mindspring account in 1996. I was later than some, to the Internet party, though way ahead of most. (I was on Compuserve and Prodigy before Mindspring, but I was even a Usenet user back in the late 70′s and early 80′s.) But Earthlink blew it. They lost a customer of 15 years, [...]
Read More...The pain of finding a domain name
By Lee on Thursday, April 10th, 2008 | 3 Comments
I know why Web 2.0 brings with it all the groovy spellings and made up words like Flickr, Friendster, and Facebook (and that’s just the F’s). It’s because the damned cybersquatters have already registered every decent English word and phrase you can imagine. There’s nothing left for the people who are actually trying to do [...]
Read More...The era of the disingenuous recommendation
By Lee on Sunday, June 17th, 2007 | No Comments
We live in a time when peoples’ opinions have become suspect. I was just looking through my Amazon wishlist and noticed a pattern. Most of the marketing-oriented books have five-star reviews. I remember the launches of a few of those books. There was the push to drive the book to #1 on Amazon through concerted [...]
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