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Friday Fun Link – The Most Famous Book Set In Each of the 50 States

Earlier this week, I posted an infographic of the most famous brand from each US state. Soon after, I came across a similar graphic which features (arguably) the most famous book set in every state…

Posted 25 April 2014 § FridayFunLink § List § PopCulture § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

The Corporate States of America

Here’s an interesting map of the best known brand from each American state (with a handy list of all the brands-by-state so you can see the smaller states that are harder to make out on the map)…

Posted 22 April 2014 § Jobs § List § United States ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: ,

What Is The Most Important Thing You’ve Learned About Leadership?

Below is the top voted answer, by former NASA astronaut Garrett Reisman, to the Quora question “What Is The Most Important Thing You’ve Learned About Leadership” (it’s worth clicking through for some of the other answers as well.) 1) Have a grand vision – Elon Musk, SpaceX CEO, CTO As a leader, you can inspire […]

Posted 03 April 2014 § Jobs § Library § LibrarySchool § List § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Suggested Reading Times on Books – Yay or Nay?

Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit, did something fairly unique with his first book, “Without Their Permission” by including a “suggesting reading time” logo on the back cover.  This logo estimates the book would take about five hours to read and that this is the equivalent of a cross-country flight from New York to San Francisco. […]

Posted 13 March 2014 § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

The Milestones of Your Little Rocket Scientist

(Via Stephen’s Lighthouse)

Posted 27 February 2014 § Baby § List § Pace § Sasha § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

The Correlation Between Unionization and Poverty Rates Around the World

(h/t to MF on FB)

Posted 23 January 2014 § Canada § Jobs § Politics § UK § United States § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

About That Future…

Man, we live in amazing times… 50 Things We Know Now That We Didn’t Know This Time Last Year 10 Best Gadgets at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show The Future of Technology (Infographic) A Day with Google Glass… …and for a reminder of how far we’ve come…  10 Most Influential Software Packages of All-Time

Posted 12 January 2014 § Internet § List § PopCulture § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Myers-Briggs Results as Cultural Touchstones

Which of the 16 Myers-Briggs Personality Type are you?  (I usually test as ENFP as I did when I just re-did the test right now.) Below are some graphics to help map your personality type to well-known pop culture figures… Marvel Universe…   Star Wars… Harry Potter… Animal Kingdom… Other male pop culture figures: …and […]

Posted 30 October 2013 § Humour § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

The Evolution of Reddit

A graphical representation of different phases of Reddit’s evolution over time.  I joined in January 2007 (and probably was a lurker for a bit of time before that) so that’s a few years before Reddit exploded around 2010, roughly around the time that Digg, which I was never a big fan of, went into freefall. […]

Posted 15 October 2013 § Internet § MemoryLane ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – The Taxonomy of Brewing: 500 Beers on One Ridiculous Chart

Yes, please!

Posted 11 October 2013 § FridayFunLink ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: