Hacking your body is old news, but hacking your mind is always fresh. Topics of conversation, like email forwards, seem to spread virally, and one of the topics that dominated conversation at SXSW was sleep. Polyphasic sleep to be exact. I’m not sure if I’ll ever get to the stage of wanting to take 6 naps a day, but it’s definitely an interesting way to tweak the conventional human experience.
The other day, I met Ejovi for lunch and unwittingly suggested heading to the Shake Shack in Madison Square Park. OMG. What a mistake. It was like the great wall of people. The line snaked down almost to 23rd St. Where, I asked, was the light social technology that enabled the community to combat this menace and ensure that waiting 1hr+ for a burger was somebody else’s problem? Today, my prayers have been answered. Thank you Shake Shack Watchers.
Spore Gameplay Video – Google Video
Awesome awesome awesome. Will Wright does it again. This looks like it’s going to be the timesuck of the decade.
Pretty damn cool little electro band.
Kottke led me to this post by Wes Felter rightfully criticizing William Safire’s rough’n’far from ready article ostensibly reviewing the jargon of the blogosphere. Among the numerous factual errors, Safire’s primary source for these facts – blogossary.com gets things so wrong it’s almost laughable. Here’s a quick example of their entry for ‘meme’: “A meme is a type of online chain letter where bloggers answer questions or participate in a quiz designed to give a quick overview of the author’s personality.”
I can’t believe that such a well-respected writer at the Times uses a single (barely visited) site as a primary source for his article. Even five minutes spent googling or hell – askjeevesing (get it before he’s gone) – would have exposed Safire’s factual ‘malfunction’ with a teeny bit of evidence.