March 2012 – …pickhits…

Bookmarks for March 10th through March 13th

13 March 2012 / esinclai / 0 Comments

These are my pinboard links for March 10th through March 13th:

Regarding Benjamin Franklin’s Daily Schedule — Shawn Blanc – Inspiring and a nice aggregation of confluence in thoughts.
Leonard Bernstein’s Masterful Lectures on Music (11+ Hours of Video Recorded in 1973) | Open Culture – Online recordings of Bernstein lectures in the early 70s.
Stephen Wolfram Blog : The Personal Analytics of My Life – Stephen Wolfram by the numbers.
The Lync Insider » How to Create Custom Lync Presence States – Simple how-to on creation and publication of custom presence states for Lync 2010
Pecan Pie (Gluten-Free) – Celiac.com –

Bookmarks for March 3rd through March 4th

4 March 2012 / esinclai / 0 Comments

These are my pinboard links for March 3rd through March 4th:

Dangerous Minds | Joe Strummer and Paul Simonon interviewed on NYC TV 1982 – More good finds on classic punk from Dangerous Minds.
Trotsky Eats and Runs – Tipping. Culturally distinct, and a revolutionary problem.
Clean Eating Slow Cooker Cinnamon Chicken – Who wants chicken?
The Raspberry Pi can help schools get with the program | Technology | The Observer – John Naughton on the Raspberry Pi and its fit in education.
Uncharted Books opens in Logan Square on Vimeo – Brief video on Uncharted Books in Logan Square

Bookmarks for February 21st through March 3rd

3 March 2012 / esinclai / 0 Comments

These are my pinboard links for February 21st through March 3rd:

450 Free Movies Online: Great Classics, Indies, Noir, Westerns & More | Open Culture – Many films available online. Stock up!
Martin Scorsese’s Film School: The 85 Films You Need To See To Know Anything About Film | Co.Create: Creativity Culture Commerce – For queue filling and watching
Raspberry Pi Foundation – Micro computing device
Windows 8 Consumer Preview ISO formats – For playingwithery
SXSW 2012 Q&A: Keith Barraclough – Scatter/Gather: a Razorfish blog about content strategy, pop culture and human behavior – Some bits about publishing and etc
BBC News – Raspberry Pi network plan for online free-speech role – Combining Raspberry Pi minicomputers plus encrypted chat to form mesh secure collaboration networks.
n+1: Concerning the Violent Peace-Police – A black bloc participant on blackbloc tactics and history

2 March 2012 / esinclai / 0 Comments

To say that one had “seen the light” is a poor description of the mental rapture which only the convert knows…. The new light seems to poor in from all directions across the skull; the whole universe falls into pattern like the stray pieces of a jigsaw puzzle assembled by magic at one stroke. There is now an answer to everyone question, doubts and conflicts are a matter of the tortured past…. Nothing henceforth can disturb the convert’s inner peace and serenity — except the occasional fear of losing faith again, and losing thereby what alone makes life worth living. And falling back into the outer darkness.

Arthur Koestler describing the conversion experience to Communism, but possibly broadly applicable to many conversion experience and ideation large and small.