Category Archives: Culture

The Fifth Discipline

I’m just getting through the audio version of this book and it raises some interesting ideas regarding how organizations can function better. There’s a good overview at the link. The audiobook is available through iTunes. Recommended. link: Leadership Management Institute – Strategy, Leadership, Productivity – The Fifth Discipline – The Art and Practice of the […]

Hipsters

Lovers of apathy and irony, hipsters are connected through a global network of blogs and shops that push forth a global vision of fashion-informed aesthetics. Loosely associated with some form of creative output, they attend art parties, take lo-fi pictures with analog cameras, ride their bikes to night clubs and sweat it up at nouveau […]

"May I watch "Captain Kangaroo" instead, please?"

Back in olden times, Channel 11 (WPIX) used to air this rather sad-sack cartoon, “Clutch Cargo.” In order to cut down onĀ animation costs, it used real human mouths where the cartoon ones ought to be. I swear, this gave me nightmares as a child. And now, thanks to youtube, it’s BAAAAAAAACK! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBzkNchB0p0