It is so much simpler to bury reality...

How's everybody feeling?  Find out with Feeling of the World.

Let's call this the Twitter of art: a painting reduced to 140 circles.  Guess before you click through.

If you're faced with documenting your work, these tips for technical papers might come in handy.  This may be common sense but: "Do not use etc. unless the remaining items are completely obvious."  Or maybe you have to organize a meeting.  In that case, the conference organizer's handbook may be useful.  I liked this nugget: "The purpose of a keynote is to draw attendees to the conference early, especially on day 2, when they’re hung over and would prefer to stay in bed a little longer."

I'm now on Google+ but I'm struggling to figure out how and why to use it.  Addressing the "how", here's a cheat sheet for Google+ with 11 handy tips.   As for the "why", I'm not sure why I'd use Google+ versus Facebook and Twitter.

This photo of 4 moons transiting Jupiter's face is #47 on the list of the top 100 Hubble images.

For those of you interested in Malcom Gladwell (I am not - I thought Blink was horrific) here's his website: www.gladwell.com.

Visual.ly, a website dedicated to the promotion of infographics and data visualizations, launched this week.   I'm an enabler: here's a family tree of the Emacs editor.  Creo Sketch is PTC's 2D sketching tool - and it's free.  This video makes it look pretty easy to use.

I will not link to the crazy nastyass honey badger video.  (That does not mean I haven't favorited it on YouTube.)

Just wash that fallout down the drain with Flobar.  source

Tru du cul du jour: Dude and wife get $12,000 because of a "malicious, repressive, and reprehensible" incident on Air Canada in which he was spoken to in English.  Judge: "the violation of their rights caused them a moral prejudice, pain and suffering and loss of enjoyment of their vacation."

Just a little eye candy: video of a brief abstract animation: Divide.  Aviation pr0n of the week: video of the F-35C during a jet blast deflector test (a plane never looked so good going nowhere).  For my quilting friends: improvisational quilts.  Haven't had one of these in a while: the periodic table of search engine optimization.

Get a God's-eye view of any location on the planet with Earth View.

In this list of the top 10 algorithms of the 20th century, SIAM's editors include the development of the optimizing Fortran compiler in 1957.  "The creation of Fortran may rank as the single most important event in the history of computer programming..."  I learned Fortran during a summer internship at NASA in 1983 which was fortuitous because the next year we were required to do a senior design project in Fortran even though we hadn't been taught it at school.

So much to read, so little time.  Here's a list of the top 50 entrepreneurs ranked by their tweets and blog traffic.  I follow 3 of the top 5 but my readership drops off dramatically after that.

Thank you for reading.

...than it is to dispose of dreams. ~Don DeLillo (Americana)