Monmouth County Fair, 2007: It’s getting cold out. Found this snap while digging through Aperture this AM. Makes me think of funnel cakes and summer.

Heading home from Florida. Trying to wear out the kids before we board the plane.

Netflix launched this feature to a closed group last week but now all Mac users can sign up to start beta testing the new Silverlight-based Watch Instantly feature on netflix. More here at Slashdot: http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/11/03/0241254.shtml

All Scientific Articles, Research, Landscape and Human Health Laboratory, University of Illinois Human Health Benefits Of Natural Landscapes

Natural Settings Help Brain Fatigue – Well Blog – NYTimes.com Attention restoration theory suggests that walks in nature and views of green space capture our involuntary attention, giving our directed attention a needed rest.

Multitasking Can Make You Lose … Um … Focus – NYTimes.com As our minds fill with noise — feckless synaptic events signifying nothing — the brain gradually loses its capacity to attend fully and gradually to anything,

Pollan’s Proposals For the time-strapped who didn’t get around to reading Pollan’s recent NYT’s magazine piece on food policy, here is a great overview of that article.

Jonathan Haidt on the moral roots of liberals and conservatives | Video on TED.com Psychologist Jonathan Haidt studies the five moral values that form the basis of our political choices, whether we’re left, right or center. In this eye-opening talk, he pinpoints the moral values…

working with cakephp’s “hasAndBelongsToMany” model type reminds me of Douglas Hofstadter’s G.E.B and the “set of all sets” Venn diagram.

I always forget this, so I’m putting it here for posterity: rsync -rnv –delete /Volumes/Maxtor 300GB/Music /Volumes/Music Library/