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the required (and often documented) ceremonious stages of shaving

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Vector generation fun with Onull

Warpaint played a really good set in Athens last night.

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Take a look around the small site web landscape and it’s clear we’re not in Kansas anymore. It’s no longer a foregone conclusion that a new blog…

Jay Robinson posts a great comparison between WebKit’s Web Inspector and Firefox’s Firebug extension.

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CEO resigns via haiku on Twitter

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Folks, I bring you beer and computers combined. My work here is done.

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Two college-aged entrepreneurs, Arun Gupta and Greg Nemeth, stumbled upon a notion about sleep:

[D]uring the night, most commonly when we go into and out of REM sleep, we wake up, roll over, perhaps grunt, and then go back to sleep. [A sleep expert] admits he has yet to gather the data that would confirm his theory, but he has observed the phenomenon countless times over his decades of research.

And then:

Gupta and Nemeth seized on the idea, reasoning that — if [the sleep expert] is right — there are two or three dozen ideal moments within REM sleep when people can wake up and feel their best. The trick was to build an alarm that could identify these peaks. So: If a peak took place during the wearer’s chosen wake-up window, say between 7:40 and 8:00 a.m., a signal would go out via Bluetooth to the wearer’s cellphone, which would wake him or her at the ideal moment for springing out of bed.

The story of alarm clock entrepreneurs told through tennis, brainstorming, college drop outs, and the incessant pursuit of an idea — feeling one’s best.

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A beautiful overview of Chrome’s features.

The new Muhtayzik Dunbar website is beautiful.

I own this flannel.

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bobulate:

On how the brain “tunes in” to one idea:

If you think of the example of the jammed radio, the way to hear what you want out of the messy signals would be to listen really hard for the latest news while trying to filter out the unwanted music. The hippocampus does this more efficiently. It simply tunes in to the right frequency to get the station it wants. As the cells tune into the station they’re after, they are actually able to filter out the other station at the same time, because its signal is being transmitted on a different frequency.

Similar to being connected to someone:

“You know how when you feel like you really connect with someone, you say you are on the same wavelength? When brain cells want to connect with each other, they synchronize their activity,” Colgin explains. “The cells literally tune into each other’s wavelength. We investigated how gamma waves in particular were involved in communication across cell groups in the hippocampus. What we found could be described as a radio-like system inside the brain. The lower frequencies are used to transmit memories of past experiences, and the higher frequencies are used to convey what is happening where you are right now.”

Immediately, I thought of Merlin’s synthesis of procrastination as a way of “asking the world for answers” when we’ve forgotten who we are. In this regard, tuning in to one thing (perhaps the wrong thing) could be a lack of connecting to another:

Paraphrasing liberally:

Procrastination comes from a lack of confidence from one of three things:
- Temporarily forgetting who we are and what we want to be
- Temporarily losing track of what we should be paying attention to
- Losing track of what our options are for doing something about the first two

There’s a great deal of meaningful things I’m leaving out about oscillation and the often-overlooked masterful mastering of oscillation. As I tune in to write a few talks that I’m signed up to give over the next few weeks, both are much needed and timely reminders.

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Windows 3.1 HotDog Stand Theme

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