The great British writer G. K. Chesterton said, “because our expression is imperfect, we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.” And not just as Mollymook at Christmas but most of the year ...
Books are made of words, and sometimes the words themselves are a curiosity. Here’s why there’s a ‘b’ in the word ‘doubt’ Dou(b)t ; Scott Esposito on Jacqueline Raoul-Duval’s Kafka in Love: “…blends historical fact with novelistic whimsy. Kafka in Love
BEHIND THE SCENERY THE BEST MONTH IS MAY
For the many of us who work sitting for prolonged periods , the health impacts of workplace inactivity are looking none too good. We gotta stand and move more. The whole office work set up is ripe for a reframe, and the upright work movement is just one more reason to mix things up... From my Malchkin
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• · · In a spirit of Christmas I link to a founder and a chief mocker of politics and all things ironic in the land of the Queen: This is our 13th Christmas of publishing On Line Opinion. Since 1999 we've published over 14,435 separate articles from 4,322 people every working day of the week. Our work ethic will be no different this week, so while you're hopefully taking a break the presents from us should keep appearing all week. Thanks for your support during the year. Look forward to travelling through 2013 together. Between us we've created something unique and durable in Australian online publishing. Graham Young; Lyonette Louis-Jacques: "The Chicago Association of Law Libraries (CALL) Government Relations Committee recently published the following free guide to researching Illinois law - Finding Law: A Librarian's Guide for Non-Lawyers (December 2012)."
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• · · · · The question becomes, is it possible to set up a system for learning from history that's not simply programmed to avoid the most recent mistake in a very simple, mechanistic fashion? Is it possible to set up a system for learning from history that actually learns in our sophisticated way that manages to bring down both false positive and false negatives to some degree? That's a big question mark. How To Win At Forecasting; Art Kleiner, editor-in-chief of Strategy+Business magazine, joined me as we presented research casting new light on conventional thinking many of us have about buzz. Significantly, we're finding out that what makes ideas contagious has more to do with how we think about ideas than what we want to achieve with them. The "virality" of ideas is driven by people liking and passing on information specifically because we think others will enjoy or appreciate it. Be an Information DJ
• · · · · · Professionals and knowledge workers are working harder than ever, and are likely putting in 50 or more hours a week into their jobs. But this is occurring on their terms, their schedules, and at locations of their choosing 6 reasons why a ‘four-hour workweek’ is on the horizon; Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook Knowledge