Factoid of the day: Face it. You’re a slacker.
Between January 1969 and January 1970, Pablo Picasso completed 167 paintings.He was 87 years old. (Source: Kreeger Museum)
Emotionally intelligent signage in a hospital
Trevor Currie sends this photo of an emotionally intelligent sign, which he snapped at Toronto General Hospital.
Motor City factoid of the day
“The combined equity valuations of Chrysler, Ford and G.M. total less than $6 billion, which is not even a fifth the valuation of Honda and only about a twentieth that of Toyota.”(Source: NYT, 11/25/08)
People of the screen
Today’s must-read, ironically, is an essay by the ever brilliant Kevin Kelly on the decline of word-centered, book-based literacy and the rise of something new. We are becoming, Kelly says, “people of the screen.”An excerpt:“The fluid and fleeting symbols on a screen pull us away from the classical notions of monumental authors and authority. On the screen, the subjective
More emotionally intelligent signage
Stacey Aldrich, the innovative Deputy State Librarian in California, sends this example of emotionally intelligent signage in a zoo.
Word of the year: Cast your ballot
Webster’s New World Dictionary is choosing its word of the year for 2008. The final five candidates are: cyberchondriac leisure sickness overshare selective ignorance youthanasia Just go to the online ballot to cast your vote. But, IMHO, the choice is easy. I’d never heard of two of these words and I’ve never used two others. But one of these words I’ve
Factoid of the day: Post-American demography
India has a population of 1.1 billion — and three in four of those citizens are under 35.In other words, our flattened, hyperlinked planet now has more than twice as many young Indians as it has Americans. (Source: This Washington Post article, about the alarming fact that homosexuality is illegal in India.)
Who becomes self-employed?
Chad Moutray of the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Office of Advocacy examined that question by following the fates of the college class of 1993. Some of Moutray’s more intriguing findings: “The self-employed tend to have slightly lower grade point averages (GPAs) than their wage-and-salary peers.” The students with the best grades were more likely to seek work in
Only two weeks left in the GJBC*
Don’t forget: The deadline for entering the Great Johnny Bunko Challenge is November 26, 2008. *Great Johnny Bunko Challenge