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This Focused Performance Weblog started life as a "business management blog" containing links and commentary related primarily to organizational effectiveness with a "Theory of Constraints" perspective, but is in the process of evolving towards primary content on interactive and mobile marketing. Think of it as about Focusing marketing messages for enhanced Performance. If you are on an archive page, current postings are found here.

Friday, April 17, 2009

Unfocused: Friday Fun: Miscellanea
  • Jaded Hipster Owls Think They've Seen It All - This "animal picture blog with an attitude" (and with a NSFW name/url) is one of my favorite sources for mental health breaks.

  • The Ascent of Money - Niall Ferguson traces the evolution of money and demonstrates that financial history is the essential back-story behind all history.

  • Mindfuck Movies - "Some movies inform. Some movies entertain. And some pry open your skull and punch you in the brain."

  • Legacy Locker - Some might not consider this a "fun" link, but given how much of our lives are now online, what will happen to those "assets" when you're not around to maintain them. If you care...

  • Losing It: Why Self-Control Is Not Natural - "Group living...takes great self-control; it takes a lot to live with people day after day and not kill them"

  • Hell Explained by a Chemistry Student - "Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?"
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    Wednesday, April 08, 2009

    Matrix Revisited -- A la xkcd.

    Was it really 10 years ago?

    Whoa...

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