solipsism
From Wikipedia:

Solipsism (Latin: solus, alone + ipse, self) is the philosophical idea that “My mind is the only thing that exists”.Solipsism is an epistemological or metaphysical position that knowledge of anything outside the mind is unjustified.

Have you ever been in a meeting, and someone is trying to explain their point, but they’re having trouble finding the right words?
So once they’re done talking, you respond, and understanding the person’s point better than they do, you use the correct word in your explanation.
Then, as the person continues their presentation, they repeatedly use the word you nailed over and over again?
I hate that. Use your own damn words, don’t use mine.

…and good photography always makes it better. Nice job Jedi.
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Are you aware of this fact? Yes, it’s a fact. He’s an actor who can have do any movie he chooses, and his focus lately keeps pointing back to the Garden State.
…and why shouldn’t he love New Jersey? It’s a state rich in, well, everything. People. History. Money. You need more answers? Fuck you, go talk to The Wu Tang Clan, Jack Nicholson, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci or Frank Sinatra if you’re not quite clear. Actually, swing by place, and I’ll straight ya out.
Back to Mr. Crowe, lets take a look at his resume of Jerz:
American Gangster, 2007
Russell plays Richie Roberts, a detective from Jersey City, trying to take down Frank Lucas and his herione empire in Harlem, New York.
Cinderella Man, 2005
Russell plays Jim Braddock who’s considered a washed up boxer but makes an amazing comeback in his career. Although Braddock was born in Hell’s Kitchen, New York City, his parents relocated the family early on to West New York in Hudson County, New Jersey.
A Beautiful Mind, 2001
Russell plays American mathmetician John Forbes Nash. Yes, Nash is original from West Virginia, but where does most the movie take place? Princeton University, in Princeton New Jersey.
Gladiator, 2001
Most people don’t know this, but Gladiator was not about the Roman Empire, but about an ancient tribe of warriors from East Orange, New Jersey. Mr. Crowe played General Maximus Decimus Meridius. General Maximum cohabitated peacefully with the American Indians. The arena fights from the movie actually happened on what is present day Broad Street in Newark, New Jersey.

BusinessWeek has made a long overdue redesign to their print magazine and site. What stands out to me? Aside from the obvious typography refresh they’ve done to the logo and headers – its just better designed now. There’s more organization.
One of my favorite changes wasn’t something I was expecting to react to. They’ve moved the reader-submitted letters to the very back of the publication. I love this!
Why?
I read BusinessWeek for the articles, not for other peoples’ feedback. What other readers think is important, but they’re not the priority of the magazine. So put them in the back.
The brilliant stuff is always the most obvious, right?
Oh and something else worth noting is these little words design and innovation that keep popping up all over the place these days. Take heed.

Goodbye Roosevelt Island, hi Carnegie Hill.
I have to tell you, my wife and I feel great being back in civilization. We didn’t realize how much we missed Manhattan. No more red bus, no more Tram. Do you understand how good it feels to take the 6 train straight to work with no transfers?

A History of Violence – great movie. Why?
– Viggo Mortensen
– a high school bully gets the shit beat of out him
– good cinemaphotography
– a few hot sex scenes
– strategic fighting and shooting

When I logged into GMail today, this made my day:

For those of you who didn’t notice the change, “Loading…” used to be set in Times Roman and looked foul.
Yes, little details make me happy.

In Manhattan, the price of a slice of plain pizza and a subway fare always cost the same (+-25 cents).
If you see subway fares going up, be prepared to pay more for pizza too (and vice versa).

Flash 9 and Video on the Web (via)
Reminds me of the move to Flash 6, when we could finally load dynamic JPGs:

You can load and play .mp4,.m4v,.m4a,.mov and .3gp files using the same NetStream API you use to load FLV files now…
…The Flash Player itself does not care about file extensions, you can feed it .txt files for all it matters. The Flash Player always looks inside the file to determine what type of file it is.

Google’s Response to Facebook: “Maka-Maka” – If Google pulls this off, this could be big:

The real killer app for Google is not to turn Orkut into a Facebook clone. It is to turn every Google app into a social application without you even noticing that you’ve joined yet another social network.

If you’re looking for good vino, you have to try The Show 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon (and it’s only $16 friggin’ dollars).

Related:
Cork’d review of The Show 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon

Where Hip-Hop, Martial Arts and Chess Meet – I love the photo for this article.

Hip-hop, martial arts, chess. An odd trio? Not at all, according to RZA, a founder of the rap group Wu-Tang Clan.
“Hip-hop is a battle game,” he said. “Chess is a battle. Martial arts is a battle.”
The three disciplines came together on Oct. 13 in the Galleria at the San Francisco Design Center, where the Hip-Hop Chess Federation held the Kings Invitational tournament. The federation, founded by the writer and lecturer Adisa Banjoko and Leo Libiran, a visual artist, seeks to use “music, chess and martial arts to promote unity, strategy and nonviolence,” according to its Web site.

Imagine you work hard developing and then selling your own product. Not only does it work great, but it looks beautiful too. You have Designed all aspects of it – inside and out.
Now lets say there’s one big component of it that you must integrate that’s made from another company, which doesn’t work well – its a kludge riddled with bugs.
I can only imagine this is how I would feel as a PC maker if I built a beautiful product like this and had no other option but to load Windows Vista on it:

Remember that Vista is considered by many as so bad they’re either opting to downgrade back to Windows XP or simplying giving it the cold shoulder.