Krill oil: now for dogs!

It does not matter how slow you go so long as you do not stop.

—Wisdom of Confucius (via demo)

gary's choices: Stealth Engagement?

garysick:

The past few weeks have made me scratch my head about the dramatically dissonant signals coming out of Washington. One possible conclusion is pure chaos and incompetence, with no one in control of the message.
But there is an alternative explanation that intrigues me. Perhaps messages…

stanfordnyc:

Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Co-founders of Google, discuss Stanford’s tradition of innovation. 

“I don’t think I’ve seen the same kind of scale in research and commercialization pretty much anywhere outside of Stanford…and I think this is a really great opportunity for both the city as well as Stanford University to broaden its horizons.” - Sergey Brin, Co-founder Google

blakeley:

One image Lodwick will never reblog but I hope you will.

blakeley:

One image Lodwick will never reblog but I hope you will.

otletsshelf:

The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
Tim Wu
In this age of an open Internet, it is easy to forget that every American information industry, beginning with the telephone, has eventually been taken captive by some ruthless monopoly or cartel. With all our media now traveling a single network, an unprecedented potential is building for centralized control over what Americans see and hear. Could history repeat itself with the next industrial consolidation? Could the Internet—the entire flow of American information—come to be ruled by one corporate leviathan in possession of “the master switch”? That is the big question of Tim Wu’s pathbreaking book.

otletsshelf:

The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

Tim Wu

In this age of an open Internet, it is easy to forget that every American information industry, beginning with the telephone, has eventually been taken captive by some ruthless monopoly or cartel. With all our media now traveling a single network, an unprecedented potential is building for centralized control over what Americans see and hear. Could history repeat itself with the next industrial consolidation? Could the Internet—the entire flow of American information—come to be ruled by one corporate leviathan in possession of “the master switch”? That is the big question of Tim Wu’s pathbreaking book.