Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed

Twitter Digest: 2011-09-26
Jeb Corlis — PoV HD Wingsuit Flying
Forensics of Roadside Trash
Chick Flicks as Sci Fi

Twitter Digest: 2011-09-26

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 04:00 AM PDT

Fire in the Sky and on the Ground http://j.mp/oHrW8v ->
Jeb Corliss and some PoV wingsuit flying in HD. You know the drill: full-screen zen. http://t.co/pjb0NEZJ ->
Self-described former Zynga staffer on the company's alleged profit decline – http://t.co/t407FfOK /via @mathewi ->
Oh, the President was here — so that's why there were so many damn helicopters here in La Jolla today. ->
This link should work for Peter Aspen's thought-provoking Weekend FT piece about the "HBO revolution" – http://t.co/m04hcxLx ->

Jeb Corlis — PoV HD Wingsuit Flying

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 10:52 PM PDT

WIld mix of PoV video, Jeb Corliss interview and general wingsuit zen. Take the HD feed and flow it to fullscreen.

Forensics of Roadside Trash

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 06:54 PM PDT

I’ve spoken about this in various talks, so this is just great data on roadside trash.

An Adopt-A-Highway group picked up 36 bags of trash, plus three bags of plastic, glass and aluminum in 4 1/2 hours recently as nine volunteers cleaned Interstate 280 between Meridian Avenue and Saratoga Avenue in San Jose. Here’s what else they found on their last two cleanups:

A small peacock feather

A hikers day lumbar pack

A pair of blue plaid boxer shorts

A small white teddy bear with a red bow

A childs plastic swing, with ropes still attached

The support and two wheels of a desk chair

A small, shiny new wrench

A recipe for “Microwave Sausage Almond Stuffing”

A very new-looking pair of womens high-heeled shoes

A key tag with the label “DO NOT LOSE SUPPLY CLOSET KEY”

Five golf balls

A roll of painters tape

A black leather wallet empty

An unopened packet of Kleenex

A garter

An invitation to a 50th wedding anniversary in Spanish

$26.86 in cash — and $35 in Monopoly money

via Bay Area roads awash in trash – San Jose Mercury News.

Chick Flicks as Sci Fi

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 12:51 PM PDT

New Yorker:

I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world. For me, there is no difference between Ripley from "Alien" and any Katherine Heigl character. They are equally implausible.

via Mindy Kaling: "Flick Chicks" : The New Yorker.