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“ Today’s fast-paced, macho style of organizational culture creates, and then fosters, the hardworking idiot. Indeed, I think it takes a great many sound, useful, hardworking, and clever people and turns them into idiots by denying them the time or the opportunity to think or use their brains. If you don’t look busy all the time, you’re virtually asking for a pink slip, never mind what it is that you are doing—or whether it is actually of any use to the organization or its customers. It’s all so rushed and frenetic. If all that matters is “meeting the numbers” and getting things done (whatever those things are), managers will be forced into working hard at projects that they know make no sense.
Are today’s organizations creating hardworking Idiots? | Slow Leadership
Play Super Crazy Guitar Maniac Deluxe 3, a free online game on Kongregate
it’s like a super indie Guitar Hero. you hold the keyboard like a guitar… awesome.
Quigo makes me want to shoot things in the face
![jimray:
Never before has the Washington monument seemed so… monumental
[Via Eliot]](http://media.tumblr.com/U5b4YhnrV8e7pzbyZtcD5aQp_400.jpg)
SAI 25: The World's Most Valuable Digital Startups - Silicon Alley Insider
note that this list includes Webkinz, Habbo Hotel and Linden Lab, all virtual world startups
“ Need something designed? Crowdsource it to our community of thousands of designers. Choose a winning design from hundreds of concepts created for you in under a week.
99designs » Need something designed? Crowdsource it.
“ Doctor Judith Mossman is a fictional character in the 2004 first-person shooter computer game Half-Life 2. Judith is portrayed as a caucasian woman in her late thirties or early forties working in a hidden research facility, Black Mesa East, with Dr. Eli Vance. Judith’s voice is that of actress Michelle Forbes.
Judith Mossman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I thought I recognized that voice… Forbes is the actress who played Admiral Cain in BSG.
“ Today’s trekkers can simply rent a Land Rover, set off into the bush, and put their trust in the wisdom of the 1,400 people who have submitted GPS data to Tracks4Africa, a nonprofit that maintains the Traveller’s Africa software. The group has compiled nearly 300,000 miles of road info since 1999, and it’s updated every three months, so users don’t have to wait years for a revised edition a la Lonely Planet.
Guided by Tech: Take a Crowdsourced GPS Tour of Namibia
looks hot. in development by Level 5, the studio that brought us the wonderful Professor Layton and the Curious Village, which I am enjoying right now. PS3 exclusive so far; release date TBA…
“ But a fundamental problem with the way that MySpace and Facebook have been looking at their audiences is that they think their audiences exist to make them money through the sharing of attention. They believe since they have so much attention (super long time-on-site) that they should have no problem doing so. But it is the very reason why they have long time-on-site that makes them bad for advertising. They have provided a comfortable third place…people are already where they want to be! Social network audiences are less like searchers and more like homebodies.
musings of a social architect