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“"The Wire" always seemed more like a great 19th century novel than a television series. It will be hard to let go of the final chapter, but the characters -- Avon, McNulty and Bubbles -- will live on in our memories no less vividly than Dostoyevsky's Raskolnikov, Porfiry or Marmeladov. "The Wire" was Crime and Punishment on the streets of Baltimore.” #letmeshowyou - × × ×

“Created by former Baltimore police reporter David Simon and co-written by former Baltimore homicide detective Ed Burns, "The Wire," whose name refers to police wiretaps on Baltimore drug dealers, never managed to gather the audience it deserved. It never won any Emmys, and fewer than a million viewers tuned in to some episodes. Yet many critics regard it as the finest drama ever to air on television. And it is. It's also the only complex examination of the urban underclass ever attempted in the popular culture.” - × × ×

(К нашему разговору с Мамой Ари и Аникиным про сериалы и, в частности, к моему тезису об их значении и весе для современного культурного человека.) #letmeshowyou - × × ×

Поэтому мы подумаем дальше о том, возможно ли сделать из этого что-то похожее на вики (о чём справедливо говорил Майк Браво). Печальный парадокс вики: если вытащить обновления на морду, людей завалит новым, велик процент шума в сигнале, если не вытаскивать обновления, то всё происходящее хоронится вдали от людского глаза. - × × ×

Рекомендации лучших собаководов™. - × × ×

А ещё в рубрике LMSY скоро — The Mentalist (смешной) и The Philanthropist (там чувак похож на Машкова один в один! Бегает по экзотическим странам и спасает мир на все оставшиеся деньги!). - × × ×

Слайды к моему выступлению на самарской конференции «404» 26 сентября 2009 года: http://404fest.ru/themes... - × × ×

“Put simply, Benziger's theory expresses personality in terms of four quadrants of the brain (basal means rear or back): bullet Basal Left - process and routine bullet Basal Right - intuition and empathy bullet Front Left - logic and results bullet Front Right - vision and creativity Benziger relates these modes of thinking to Jung's Four Functions, and Benziger's theory provides many people an immensely helpful way to make sense of what Jung said and advocated. [...] People can and often do however develop competencies in other modes. When they do in practice they will be using more areas of their brain, and when they do this the competencies outside their natural lead are always somewhat draining, which links to Benziger's ideas about the dangers of falsification of type. If it's 'draining' using competencies that are not our natural strength, it must be more stressful still when we have to work exclusively in a competence other than our natural preference.” - × × ×

The Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition postulates that when individuals acquire a skill through external instruction, they normally pass through five stages. This model, first proposed by Stuart Dreyfus and Hubert Dreyfus in 1980[1] proposes that the five stages of skill acquisition are: Novice, Advanced beginner, Competent, Proficient and Expert In the novice stage a person follows rules that are context free and feel no responsibility for anything other than following the rules. Competence develops when the number of rules becomes excessive so organizing principles need to be developed and information sorted by relevance. Competence is characterized by active decision making. Proficiency is shown in individuals who use intuition in decision making and develop their own rules to formulate plans. - × × ×

Very often the hardest question is how to align and drive people motivation with the skill growth. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - мои_друзья_симптомы

"Pandora also has more creative ways of advertising. Westergren also talked off camera about a recent gig in LA for Aimee Mann. Pandora sent an email to users in driving distance of the club that it knew loved her music and the venue quickly filled up. “Can we do this every night?” the club owner panted. Pandora didn’t charge the club anything for this, but there’s clear opportunity to do so. [...] The heart of it is the “Music Genome Project,” which analyzes why you like a song and gives recommendations based on the song’s inherent characteristics, not what other people who liked that song also enjoy. If it can translate that to the physical world of gigs, it could do for venue owners and artists what Travelocity and Expedia first did for airlines—fill empty seats that are worthless once a gig is over. That’s not only an “ad” that has value, it’s one that actually uses the unique interactive elements of the mobile Web. “This is the part of Pandora’s future that I’m most excited about,” Westergren said. “I wish they had this when I was in a band!”" - × × ×

"When anyone comes in the house, I say, "Careful - it's like a Monet - better if you look from a distance." No need for anyone else to read what's written on those cards." - × × ×

"The result of the little-known program was a slate-gray, round-nosed locomotive called the Sokol, Russian for falcon, that petered out soon after the Soviet Union did. The prototype achieved a top speed of only 143 miles an hour — hardly breaking a sweat by high-speed standards. But the fall of the Falcon created an opening for Siemens. This December, high-speed trains designed by the German conglomerate and adapted for Russian winters will ply the rails between St. Petersburg and Moscow. But Siemens hopes their final destination will be the last laggard of the high-speed age: the United States." - × × ×

“Here as elsewhere, high-speed trains will compete with airlines. The 401-mile trip from downtown Moscow to downtown St. Petersburg will be 3 hours and 45 minutes. The average flying travel time is five hours, including the trips to and from the airport, check-in and security clearance. The four-times-a-day service will trim 45 minutes from the fastest train service now. To achieve this, the Russian state railway spent $485 million upgrading the track and $926 million for eight Sapsan trains and a 30-year service agreement, at today’s exchange rates.” - × × ×