Found this gem on an old SD card today. My poor dog looks very confused as to why hats are being put on his head.
30 Things to Stop Doing to Yourself →
When you stop chasing the wrong things you give the right things a chance to catch you.
If you don’t understand SOPA, this is a good rundown.
PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet (by Fight for the Future)
Smoke Screening or why the TSA and all its procedures are useless | Vanity Fair →
As you stand in endless lines this holiday season, here’s a comforting thought: all those security measures accomplish nothing, at enormous cost. That’s the conclusion of Charles C. Mann, who put the T.S.A. to the test with the help of one of America’s top security experts.
Or better described by John Gruber:
$1.1 trillion down the toilet. Enjoy your holiday air travel.
All this security theater doesn’t help stop the bad guys. Hell, it makes the good guys annoyed and that’s all.
Proper intelligence gathering, layered security (AKA Israeli airport security model) and common sense and proper personnel training are the beginning of a good solution.
Oh, that last part common sense and proper personnel… Well, you have to hire people with a little more brain that just a random Joe that was able to pass the screening.
The basic understanding of anatta, or ‘no-self’ – the absence of an inherently existing self – is one of the most difficult concepts to work with. A mistaken view of self is said to be more harmful than greed or even hatred, because even those states are rooted in this basic illusion. Our experience of self is central to how we go about in the world, and all kinds of unskillful actions come out of an incorrect understanding of it.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.
— Albert Einstein (via mikeambs)
Southern California sunsets are always particularly stunning during the winter. It’s good to be home. (Taken with Instagram at H Street View Pt)
