Creativity

I’ve always liked the idea of backing into parking spaces, but for most of my life I didn’t think much about my motivation for this. After a while I decided that backing in was a sign that I wasn’t a procrastinator. The procrastinators pull straight into places because they’re not even thinking about the potential challenges of backing out later. (Sorry to throw shade on the procrastinators. My snark could be genetically linked.) Viewing the people that pulled straight into spaces as procrastinators satisfied me for decades, yet I always felt like it wasn’t thought through as well as it could be. Despite the philosophical hand-waving, I kept up my tendency to back into parking places. Through the years I’ve learned a few things that might be more convincing. Welcome to a journey through my confirmation bias. ...

Introduction Like many, I’ve usually kept my charitable giving private — and I’ve respected that choice in others. But recently, a few people have asked where they might consider donating. Since I don’t see a need to keep it to myself, I’ll share my recommendations for anyone interested. I’ve organized this around a few themes. For each one I will link to the organization’s website and the Charity Navigator rating. For all of the organizations mentioned below, I respect them and I have personally donated to them at least once, but often over several years. I’m leaving out organizations that I don’t want to donate to for various reasons and local charities, but I may revisit those topics someday. I’m also not including much commentary on each one since I’m hoping you will find your own reasons to like them and contribute. ...

Original article is at https://www.ian-leslie.com/p/the-banality-of-genius-notes-on-peter. This bit really hooked me on this article: Peter Jackson’s decision to make Get Back an eight-hour series rather than a two hour movie was a risky one. When I heard about it, I wondered if it was the result of a man who, locked down in his Antipodean editing suite, had waded too deep into his material and lost control of it, a Kurtz in the Beatle jungle. ...

Once again the forces for copyright have reduced the rights of normal people who have done nothing wrong. Any chance of a lost nickle is too much for the copyright advocates. And they get to demand these rights for life+70 years. That’s no good for the public domain, but that’s an easy to ignore consequence if they can be $20 richer in the 145th year of publication. As China has amply demonstrated if you want to remain relevant to manufacturing you need a very different view of intellectual property. But don’t worry, for trading away making cars, washing machines, and almost everything else we got Hollywood and stock photo houses. Those are the best people to optimize our economy for it would seem. I’m sure Hollywood is excited to retrain coal and factory workers to be the next Dwayne The Rock Johnson. ...

Dismantle the copyright tyranny soon please. Corporations are ignoring and destroying Fair Use. Copyright was never intended to be absolute or to prevent the public from satire yet there’s no big pockets to go to court to prevent the ever-expanding reach of copyright. Links Lucasfilm comes down hard on Star Wars-themed events Shared with: Public +1’d by: Wing Wong

Here is my first game guide on Steam. Links Steam Community :: Guide :: Plants vs Zombies: All Achievements Guide Shared with: Public

It is great to see The Princess Bride enchanting new generations and that the cast is still alive and kicking. #theprincessbride Links #theprincessbride Cary Elwes on The Princess Bride: ‘I know what my epitaph will be’ | Film | The Guardian Shared with: Public +1’d by: Wing Wong

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/252587878/cake-board-new-lego-friendly-solderless-breadboard evolves the breadboard in some intersting ways.

Everybody has an awesome invention buried inside waiting to get out. Links How a Young Girl Developed an Innovative Chemotherapy Device | Qmed Shared with: Public

Why can’t we just ban patents? Links Patents that kill Shared with: Public +1’d by: Caskey Dickson