Last Weeks Picks

There was a pillow fight in Toronto last week, and the picture of this pillow fighter caught my eye. Maybe I will give up my disdain for people with dreads someday too? For some reason I’ve always felt a bit of contempt for people who doesn’t wash their hair on a regular basis, although some of the women can look really good with it. A shame.

As a person somewhat interested in possibly doing something by myself work-wise some day, I ran into the Personal MBA Manifesto site that more or less gives a list of books and magazines to read and study by oneself to attain knowledge similar to an MBA.
The manifesto states that you wont attain all the knowledge needed by the books alone, you need to be out there working with your own start up or something similar. I’m kind of a skeptical, but I enjoy reading —so I’ll definitely pick up some of the books for summer or something like that (already posess Getting Things Done by Allen for a year or so. How is that for Getting Things Done?;) —I’ll get right to it after exams.)

Last week was also the birthday of the typeface Helvetica. I found Magasinets article(norwegian) a enjoyable read. BBC also has good coverage.

Picks of the Week

Things I found interesting this week.

The Definitive Guide to Semantic Web Markup for Blogs (article)

This article talks about how one should mark up HTML documents semantically correct. Although the comments points out some flaws (as using a H4 tag after something other than H3 – and thus breaking the hierarchy) the articles sums up why and how you should mark up your documents.

Caspian – The Four Trees (music)

I found the album “The Four Trees” on eMusic, and it’s stunning. Although having a sound similar to Explosions In The Sky it isn’t a copy. Good stuff.

Dvorák -Symphony No. 9 (music)

Well, I usually do not listen to classical, but I took my chance on this one. Some of the parts in it gives me associations to Bonanza. I like!