Next month I’ll be attending a conference at the ZiF Center at the University of Bielefeld. The conference is not OrgTheory related, but Bielefeld is near the Teutoburg Forest, which in A.D. 9 was host to one of the great Organizational Disasters in history, when P. Quinctilius Varus led three Roman legions into the dense […]
Like Henry, I bought the Old School Sesame Street collection for, uh, my kids. Yeah, totally for them. There’s all kinds of good stuff in there, including the God of the Classroom, Roosevelt Franklin. The improvised interactions with children who don’t always do what they are supposed to are also great. For instance, here is […]
So that way, you can do something about this:
The European Commision has opened the door for mobile phones on planes, introducing measures to harmonize the technical and licensing requirements for mobiles services in the sky. This means that 90 percent of European air passengers can remain contactable during flights, according to the Commission. … As […]
Found by chance on Flickr. If Laurie runs another Arizona Ontology Conference next year, this should absolutely be the conference t-shirt.
Via John Gruber comes news that the already somewhat odd augmenting of U.S. currency with larger typefaces and random bits of color has taken a horrible turn. Behold the new five dollar bill.
The new additions to this bill, apparently intended to increase legibility and accessibility, were made by my daughter, who is four. Or possibly […]
This picture is presently on the reddit front page under the byline, “The Coolest Guy Ever.” Some people in the comments thread are skeptical that such a person (and his parrot) could really exist, but I see him and the macaw pretty regularly as they drive around Tucson.
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