Blog is a Mix Tape

one line: my spirit, my cubicle

2008-04-23T06:11:19Z

Empowering and humane, cubicles seemed to create a workplace with a soul.

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one line: when did slavery end?

2008-04-19T07:47:07Z

Bastardy, gambling, changing employers without permission, false pretense, “selling cotton after sunset”: these were all grounds for arrest in rural Alabama by 1890.

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one line: don't check your email

2008-04-19T07:38:30Z

Researchers at Stanford University have found that the light from your monitor right before bed is enough to reset your whole wake/sleep cycle -- and postpone the onset of sleepiness by three hours.

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one: i'm a digital nomad

2008-04-19T07:15:33Z

Digital nomadism will liberate ever more knowledge workers from the cubicle prisons of Dilbert cartoons.

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one line: bad boy for life

2008-03-26T18:48:08Z

Last week's bombshell Los Angeles Times report claiming that the 1994 shooting of Tupac Shakur in the lobby of a Manhattan recording studio was carried out by associates of Sean "Diddy" Combs and that the rap impresario knew of the plot beforehand...

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one line: from laura to leroy

2008-02-26T08:01:36Z

When I asked whether JT was real, she paused, and smiled in a way that at the time said she was letting me in on the secret but in hindsight I can say meant JT was the bait and I had just swallowed.

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one line: dear obama letter

2008-02-15T20:05:17Z

Feeling inspired is soooo early-February.

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one line: on handwriting

2008-02-13T09:51:41Z

“We cling to handwriting out of a romantic sense that script expresses identity.” I'm not sure I agree with that but I think we should be focusing on typing ahead of handwriting with kids.

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one line: beyond blackness

2008-02-12T17:03:16Z

He is both black (obviously) and beyond blackness. I have only minor quibble with the films they selected (and those they left out) but reading the pieces, I get that really they are just using these films to talk about a person or a moment in ti...

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one line: it isn't just about britney

2008-02-11T21:34:15Z

Being crazy doesn’t make you stupid.

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