Jul

24

Posted by : E.v.R. | On : July 24, 2006

Here are 10 types of posts, for my fellow bloggers who are running dry and don’t read LifeHacker.

Jul

21

Posted by : E.v.R. | On : July 21, 2006

25 Cinematic Cliches I Never Wanna See Again. Courtesy of The Cultural Gutter.

My favs:

21. That it’s only after the detective has been suspended (and obligatorily forced to place his badge and gun on the lieutenant’s desk) that he can properly crack the case.

19. People being chased by a car who run top speed down the middle of the street instead of simply ducking somewhere where a car can’t follow, which happens to be pretty much anywhere except the middle of the street.

15. Women that never have enough sense to keep running while being chased by an enemy unless a guy is pulling her along by her hand or wrist — despite the fact that this takes them far below the speed either one could go on their own.

I could add a few of my own, such as…

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Jul

20

Posted by : E.v.R. | On : July 20, 2006

Wired has a neat article on genius by Daniel Pink. It breaks it into two types, conceptualists vs. experimentalists.

Genius is nebulous at best, and an often over-used term. But if I had to choose whether I was a conceptualist thinker or an experimentalist (let’s ignore the genius part), I’d say conceptualist. I don’t think the two types are mutually exclusive however. I play both ways at times, though I lean more heavily to the conceptual side.

Which type are you?