Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal.
—Robert Heinlein

ParaTweet being used to solicit interview questions for Gordon Brown via Twitter. Interesting!

Holy wow. Astronaut Soichi Noguchi posts photos to Twitter from outer space! Here’s the Aurora Borealis.

Ask me something, anything!

Thought I’d enable a new feature here on the blog and allow you to ask questions of me. You’re smart people out there, so let’s see what you’ve got! Answers will be published here on my blog.

Feeling shy? That’s okay, you can even ask anonymously.

3, 2, 1… Go!

The friendly and flowing savage, who is he? Is he waiting for civilization, or is he past it, and mastering it?
—Walt Whitman

Ira Glass on the disparity between creative taste and execution. A classic, his advice is both liberating and challenging.

Everybody goes through that… you gotta know, it’s totally normal. The most important thing you can possibly do is to do a lot of work… it’s only by actually going through a volume of work that you’ll close that gap.

There is no hope for a civilization which starts each day to the sound of an alarm clock.
—Author Unknown, quoted in Mark Sisson’s Definitive Guide to Sleep.