Links for April 4th, 2007

• Speech by NASA Administrator Michael Griffin: Real Reasons and Acceptable Reasons – “I don’t know that one could say that folks like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson led balanced lives. Any rational cost/benefit analysis would tell you to stay out of a quarrel with the mother country, and let other people deal with it! Who today would talk about pledging their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to a cause?” – (tags: [tag]philosophy[/tag])
• People have no idea why they’re doing what they’re doing – (37signals) – Clotaire Rapaille believes all purchasing decisions lie beyond conscious thinking and emotion and reside at a primal core. He helps Fortune 500 companies discover the code (i.e. unconscious associations for their products) that will help them increase sales. – (tags: [tag]business[/tag] [tag]psychology[/tag])
• Because buying new running shoes is more fun than actually running | 43 Folders – “there’s a big difference between buying new running shoes and actually hitting the road every morning. Big difference. One is really fun and relaxing while the other requires a lot of hard work, diligence, and sacrifice.” – (tags: [tag]philosophy[/tag])
• All the glory of the universe, in a single Flash app – A Nikon flash app that shows how tiny humans are in terms of the universe. – (tags: [tag]philosophy[/tag])
• Web 2.0 mind-map – A very impressive mind-map of everything important in web 2.0. – (tags: [tag]web[/tag])
• Adobe: Google’s Best Kept Secret Enemy « Tom?s Blog – “Whose version will Java developers buy? I don’t know, but whoever wins this battle will pull ahead in the enterprise space as all the Java-heads will preach that technology solution to those who sign their paychecks.” – (tags: [tag]web[/tag] [tag]software[/tag])

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