Watching bad action movies, I frequently catch myself blurting out, "Yeah, right!" when a tractor jumps a house or Keanu Reeves feigns intense thought. I'm not alone. Lockergnome pointed me to a site that calls out all the baloney physics in movies: Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics. The site has lists of common misrepresentations and movie-by-movie reviews of special screw-ups.
Larry Penley, recently the dean of the business school at ASU, provided Business Week with his book recommendations this past March. Interesting.
The September issue of Wired magazine has an article about MIT OpenCourseWare. MIT decided several years back to begin putting all their courses online, available for free to the public. In a world that guards information as gold, the idea was revolutionary.
The article walks through the origin of the idea, the implementation process, and the results. I would love to take a few of the courses:
- Global Markets, National Politics and the Competitive Advantage of Firms
- Power and Negotiation
- Photography
- Industrial Organization
- Common Sense Reasoning for Interactive Applications
Full list of the courses currently available online.
This week, The Non-Expert at The Morning News satirizes the difficult process of resume preparation and demonstrates a savvy approach that proposes you lie your face off and avoid employment altogether. Good writing, bad advice.
The Non-Expert is still a big, bad, mamma jamma, but I'm gonna have to write in to figure out exactly what that means.
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