December 2010
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The Top 10 Goals for 2011 →
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Dec 28th
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“In the future we are wonderful people. We will save, we will exercise, we will...”
–  Dan Ariely
Dec 27th
“Everybody has a plan till they get punched in the mouth.”
–  Mike Tyson
Dec 26th
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“Dr. Ben Sobel: What happened with your wife last night? Boss Paul Vitti: I...”
–  Analyze This (1999)
Dec 26th
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“Observe, Model, Experiment, Reflect, Retry. That’s the simple formula for it...”
– In Praise of the Amateur : Managing :: American Express OPEN Forum (via 7breaths)
Dec 23rd
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Kevin Connolly's guide to American culture →
America has enormous debts but it still spends as much money on defence as all the rest of the world put together. And if that makes you uncomfortable, it is worth remembering that wherever you are, there is a good chance that if your country is ever invaded, your leader’s first phone call will be to the White House in Washington.
Dec 23rd
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Pulp Fiction, by Society6 →
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Dec 23rd
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Who's the Murphy of Murphy's Law? →
Murphy’s Law is less of a law and more of an old saying: “Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.” It is named after Edward Murphy, who was an American aerospace engineer who worked primarily on safety-critical systems. Most of his efforts went into developing escape systems for experimental… via mentalflossr
Dec 23rd
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Dec 23rd
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“Discovered by the Germans in 1904, they named it San Diego, which of course in...”
– Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 21st
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“Of course we have a ‘strategic’ plan. It’s called doing things.”
–  Herb Kelleher, CEO of Southwest Airlines
Dec 21st
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“The only privacy that’s left is the inside of your head. Maybe...”
–  Enemy of the State
Dec 21st
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The Joy Of Complexity →
Rabin came up with a solution using what is now known as a “one-way” function. One-way functions translate into computational procedures. They are easy to compute in one direction, but hard to compute in the other. Familiar functions are not like this. For example, tripling a number is a two-way function, because it is easy to go from y to 3 times y. and also easy to go from z to...
Dec 20th
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“An eternal puzzle is how a husband/father handles visits by his mother without...”
– Machiavellian In-Law Management
Dec 19th
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“I don’t know what your generation’s fascination is with documenting...”
–  Mr. Griffith from Easy A
Dec 19th
“Revenge is the purest emotion”
–  Mahabharat
Dec 17th
Dec 17th
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“In vino veritas, in aqua sanitas”
– Old Latin Phrase - “In wine there is truth, in water there is health.” (via tjunkie)
Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
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“When two trucks carrying dynamite meet on a single-lane road, who backs up?”
–  Thomas Schelling
Dec 17th
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“A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.”
– Mahatma Gandhi (via tjunkie)
Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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“Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.”
– Henry Mencken (via tjunkie)
Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
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“We can’t be successful unless we lie to our customers.”
– Larry Ellison of Oracle Corp. (via tjunkie)
Dec 15th
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“Getting results through people is a skill that cannot be learned in the...”
– Jean Paul Getty (via bitchville)
Dec 15th
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“According to the decision by the Nobel Committee and the remarks of a number of...”
– A Nobel Peace Prize for Assange? - China Media Project
Dec 13th
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Ashish Goyal Manages Blindness, and Risk for... →
As a trader at JPMorganChase in London, Ashish Goyal helps manage billions of dollars of the bank’s exposure to risks like foreign exchange fluctuations. In his spare time, he takes tango lessons, plays cricket and goes clubbing with friends. Mr. Goyal is also blind. Watching him in the middle of the trading floor as he switches back and forth from computer screens, his blindness is not...
Dec 9th
Dec 8th
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U.S. to Host World Press Freedom Day in 2011...
speechless… tjunkie: Do they even mean what they preach? Amplify’d from www.state.gov The United States is pleased to announce that it will host UNESCO’s World Press Freedom Day event in 2011, from May 1 - May 3 in Washington, D.C. UNESCO is the only UN agency with the mandate to promote freedom of expression and its corollary, freedom of the press.Read more at www.state.gov  See this Amp...
Dec 7th
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Dec 7th
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Dec 6th
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Diwali Song from The Office (US)
Diwali is a festival of lights. Let me tell you something. Tonight has been one crazy night. So put on your saris, it’s time to celebrate Diwali. Everybody looks so jolly. But it’s not Christmas, it’s Diwali. The goddess of destruction Kali stopped by to celebrate Diwali. Don’t invite any zombies to a celebration of Diwali. Along came Polly to have some fun at...
Dec 6th
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Dec 6th
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Dec 2nd
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“If you believe everything you read, better not read.”
–  Japanese Proverb
Dec 1st