Archive for 'Cross-pollinate' Category
7 Links - Enjoy the disconnection
18 April 2007Here a a couple of interesting links.
Scientists at NIST show DNA wrapped SWCNT of 200nm or less enter ex-vitro lung cells where longer ones don’t. Not sure if this is like saying 200nm DNA stands enter lung cells, while longer DNA stands don’t? Another confusion in the the debate on the safety of “nanomaterials”. How […]
ReBlog: Post on TrendHunter
5 April 2007Guy Kawasaki has a good post on TrendHunter Magazine (warning, some content not suitable for work on there). Guy’s post gives some great examples. Also look at the Science category and the Art and Design Category. This is a mix of the weird and strange mixed with the […]
GapingVoid - How to be Creative
27 March 2007Hugh MacLeod from GapingVoid fame has a whole series of articles on “How to be creative.” You really should check them out if you haven’t read them before. Although the Hugh was approaching this from a artist point of view, there is some universality to some of these comments that each person can adapt […]
Innovation Tool- Google Image Ripper
22 March 2007This is pretty simple but at the same time quite stimulating. I ran across this app that looks to be a front-end for images.google.com. It is called the “Google Image Ripper“.
I am not sure of the original motivation for building it but I find it fabulous for random association generation. For example search for a […]
Only Two Types of Employees
15 March 2007Seth Godin over at his blog has a post on what he descibes as a population of “polar opposites” in the work place. His nomenclature for these two are “Thrill Seekers” and “Fear Avoiders”. It’s an intersting choice of labels. He goes on to describe a thrill seeker as:
Thrill seekers love growth. They most enjoy […]