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This were true…

That bastion of all things newsworthy and curmudgeonly, The News Hour, just had some images of famous blogs, yes the likes of InstaPundit, Buzz Machine, etc…

Fascinating analysis indeed. Bloggers welcome to the mainstream…

Among the Pythagoreans (followers of Pythagoras) the monad was the first thing that came into existence.

The monad begat the dyad, which begat the numbers, the numbers begat points, which begat lines, which begat two-dimensional entities, which begat three-dimensional entities, which begat bodies, which begat the four elements earth, water, fire and air, from which the rest of our world is built up.

The monad was thus a central concept in the cosmology of the Pythagoreans, who held the belief that the world was - literally - built up by numbers.

(The source of this claim is Diogenes Laertius’ book Lives of Eminent Philosophers.)

This from wikipedia of course…

Ernst Mayr passed away at 100. He was an amazing scientist, philosopher, thinker, etc…. Read all about it at Edge: ERNST MAYR

In the pantheon of the immortals none rate higher than Donald Knuth. Now he has made his musings on computer science available at SCPD - Donald E. Knuth
. So stunningly good I can’t say enough good things about it!

Microsoft dipping its toes into the social networking/lifehacking/wiki/full-buzzword-compliance phenomena? If your in the beta and can invite please feel free to invite me…

Check it out at Wallop!

If you haven’t had a chance to checkout Google Maps head right on over and have some fun. Its another real interesting head-turning google application. Google is getting closer and closer to desktop app feels with these things, of course the data they contain blows away anything a desktop app could do…

For the past few years I have been using a time management system from David Allen called Getting Things Done. It has really helped me become less scatterbrained and much more focused. I highly recommend it, particularly for those people who have too much stuff to do. It has become a huge movement on the internet spawing one of several subcultures (luddite version, digerati version). To really explore this fascinating emerging movement take a peak over at the GTD page at Office Zealot.

I have adapted this system to my own style. Basically I am running my entire life out of a wiki. More on that later…

Killer writing info from the master himself. Problem is I am missing the first and most important element, a talent for writing.

Stephen King on writing

Note what happened in the browser stats at ongoing the first week of Dec 2004 (you can see the stats here).

If you haven’t figured it out then that is the week that Mozilla browser surpassed IE