Lună: iulie 2009
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Mai bine sa reducem portiile
O chestie la care m-am gandit profund cat am fost in Romania e faptul ca un kilogram de rosii costa cam 3 lei in piata. Ceea ce e imbucurator, pe langa multe alte lucruri numite ‘mancarea saracului’ (cum ar fi painea). De fapt toate legumele costa imbucurator de putin daca stau sa ma gandesc –…
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Aici ploua
Atunci cand nu mai poti de bine (sau cald) pleci acolo unde ploua si e urat in orice zi, la orice ora. Acolo pe unde oamenii se inghesuie la imbarcare Acolo unde unele vitrine arata frumos Acolo unde toate casele arata la fel dar… E bine.
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links for 2009-07-31
Do You Have These Core Human Skills? – The Personal MBA ™ (tags: learning education life career psychology business development intelligence selfimprovement skills) Tracking deliveries of all kinds is on everyone's radar The relentless consumer need to track is really about how valuable our time has become, says Grant McCracken, a cultural anthropologist. But, he…
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links for 2009-07-29
Mourning the Death of Handwriting People born after 1980 tend to have a distinctive style of handwriting: a little bit sloppy, a little bit childish and almost never in cursive. The knee-jerk explanation is that computers are responsible for our increasingly illegible scrawl, but Steve Graham, a special-education and literacy professor at Vanderbilt University, says…
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links for 2009-07-28
100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About (tags: technology history culture kids future list geek) The same name game We also typically tend to associate shared names with family, which can give a sense of connection, even if there isn't an actual blood bond. "I do feel a certain connection with those other Sam…
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links for 2009-07-25
The Day the Copy Died….. – "I certainly find it interesting – as someone who never went to art college – that Cannes entries often expect a ludicrously high degree of visual literacy in their audience (every year there are a few winners that I simply cannot understand) whereas very few make much use of…