Happy Birthday Taylor!

I'm still older... apparently to some people I'm already over the hill!

thanks Al! We're getting old...

Happy birthday Taylor!

Hey all. So, I think I told some of you that my Gramma died about a year ago. She had a cat that my aunt has been looking after since. To make a long story short, she now has two more cats than she wants and since Fritz is not hers and is not old (ie - therefore is more likely to find a new home), he's getting the boot.

That was a long lead-up to Does anyone want a cat? He's around 10 and really quite beautiful with long-ish orange hair. He's skinny and is reasonably friendly, for a cat. He's also an accomplished and enthusiastic hunter, so if you have a cat-door, you'll be getting dead surprises. He's lived with other cats and without and is fine with either.

Transcript of a speech given by Clay Shirky, author of "Here Comes Everybody":

So if you take Wikipedia as a kind of unit, all of Wikipedia, the whole project--every page, every edit, every talk page, every line of code, in every language that Wikipedia exists in--that represents something like the cumulation of 100 million hours of human thought. I worked this out with Martin Wattenberg at IBM; it's a back-of-the-envelope calculation, but it's the right order of magnitude, about 100 million hours of thought.


And television watching? Two hundred billion hours, in the U.S. alone, every year. Put another way, now that we have a unit, that's 2,000 Wikipedia projects a year spent watching television. Or put still another way, in the U.S., we spend 100 million hours every weekend, just watching the ads. This is a pretty big surplus. People asking, "Where do they find the time?" when they're looking at things like Wikipedia don't understand how tiny that entire project is, as a carve-out of this asset that's finally being dragged into what Tim calls an architecture of participation.

Have I mentioned Radiolab? I don't think I have.

You should listen to Radiolab. At the very least, you should listen to this fascinating episode where they take a look at the Orson Welles broadcast of The War of the Worlds, and why there was a panic, and how it was recreated at least twice, and what we've learned as a result.

And if that's not enough, you should read this interview with hosts Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich where they discuss what Radiolab is about.

But mostly, you should listen to Radiolab.

Remind me to look into this next winter: Hinton Luge Association.

I probably should have mentioned this earlier: I'm going to visit Paras today - leaving this afternoon/evening & coming back tomorrow. Anyone wanna come?

Venture Bros. Season 3 preview.