"Facebook has more followers than Buddha." Evan Hessel, Forbes, 9/7/09, p 80.
Great line. It's accurate (fb has 250m members, Buddhism something fewer). It's
clever, it's tightly-written, and it either required the writer to research the
number of Buddhists
Topic
Technology
A collection of 178 issues
The Wednesday Eudemon
The Disappearing Art: Doing Nothing
While sitting on a bench outside a shop in Potemkin Bavaria
[http://www.frankenmuth.org/] last weekend, I reached for my iPhone. I had 10-15
minutes to kill while my wife and children shopped, so I thought I'd do some
Internet surfing,
ADD, Buddhist Monks, and Misleading Titles
“In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than
the power of attention.” Simone Weil
A Distracted World
The May 25th issue of New York Magazine featured this cover story by Sam
Anderson: The Attention Crisis--And Why Distraction May Actually Be Good For You
Feature Essay
The Cell Phone Imbroglio
An interesting thing happened at my local high school on Friday. The senior
class organized a school-wide prank: the students programmed their cell phone
alarms to go off at 10:30. Because cell phones are supposed to be kept in
lockers during class, this would
Twitter Me . . . but Briefly
The evil of Twitter
[http://www.ncregister.com/daily/twitter_can_make_you_immoral_claim_scientists/]
:
[http://www.ncregister.com/daily/twitter_can_make_you_immoral_claim_scientists/]
> “Twitter can make you immoral, claim scientists.” So reported the U.K.'s Daily
Mail on April 14. Hardcore Register
Did You Know?
Nifty 5-minute video a friend sent earlier this year:
I haven't verified the interesting facts in the video, but I know teachers are
showing it to their high school students, and the facts seem plausible enough
(in an "implausible just ten years ago" way). A
Gmail
Anybody else use Google Mail? Anybody else have troubles accessing it the past
two days? It's like the site has been completely crashed. I couldn't get on all
day yesterday, got on last night once, then today it's down again. Go figger.
Stuff for Saturday
This might be the consumer tip of the year so far (okay, so it's only Jan. 5th,
it's still a good tip): Asus Eee 4G-Galaxy 7" PC Mobile Internet Device
[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000Y33CVM/thedailyeudem-20]. Only $399,
and it&
Stuff for Sporadic Saturday
Reminder: I don't blog on Saturdays. I haven't been for about three months.
Though I've blogged every Saturday for the last three months, I'm not blogging
on Saturdays.
If that makes sense, you drank more beer than I did last night at
Electronic Holy Cards
Commercialized? Yes. Crass? I don't think so. Bad? No
[http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071204/tc_nm/italy_saints_cellphones_dc].
> If you are a Catholic looking for a saint in heaven to protect you, you no
longer have to carry a small "holy card.