Ben Miller

The Right Honorable Senate Floor Leader Alan Seid of Palau

The Right Honorable Senate Floor Leader Alan Seid of Palau has owed me several thousand dollars for six years. Every time I try to get payment, he has an excuse about how difficult his life is, and could I please ... Read more

I'd heard the name, but I had no idea...

Maria Callas - Ah! non credea mirarti (La Sonnambula) As Wikipedia notes "Her dramatic life and personal tragedy have often overshadowed Callas the artist in the popular press." This 4:27 fixed that for me. via Chris Case [[Sorry: every time ... Read more

Dude, get some sleep...you're here on business

In the real world, a mere five-minute walk from my cubicle, a fellow middle manager also loses his focus on his business priorities and seeks temporary escape from the rigors of the corporate grind via non-work-related internet surfing on his ... Read more

QRcode hijack spam

QRcodes are the dominant mobile-phone barcode in Japan. Today, I heard an interesting story from a guy in the industry. He told me that in Kabukicho (Tokyo's largest redlight district) touts are having the QRcodes for their establishments (porn, prostitution) ... Read more

benjamin.miller's QuickMix

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Yo-Yo Ma – "Laudamus Te" From Gloria

http://www.last.fm/music/Yo-Yo+Ma

Arthur Rubinstein – Chopin Piano Concerto No.1 in E minor...

http://www.last.fm/music/Arthur+Rubinstein

Gustav Leonhardt – Suite in D major, La Eynaud

http://www.last.fm/music/Gustav+Leonhardt

A 2.0 start-up deploys prediction markets as a Zillow-kil...

Companies like Microsoft and HP have been running internal prediction markets to extract valuable intelligence from within their ranks on hot-button issues like sales forecasts, setting the optimum price for a new product, or whether a team will even meet ... Read more

The protocol in Pasadena

Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, worked hard last week to translate its leadership position in vehicle design into one based on sustainable mobility. Yet for many, the shift remains problematic. The leaders of Ford's advanced design studio ... Read more

Facebook Friends vs. AIM Buddies

I've noticed a strange split in my online social life. Though there are plenty of exceptions and overlaps, for the most part, I communicate with my high school friends via AIM, whereas I use Facebook to communicate with my college ... Read more

Folding under pressure (that's an old origami joke)

Susan Orlean has been AWOL from the pages of the New Yorker for some time now, but she's back this week with a piece on origami and Robert Lang, former physicist and an acknowledged master of the craft. He would ... Read more

Benassi Bros.

Benassi Bros.

Ernesto Vs. Bastian

Ernesto Vs. Bastian

Ian Van Dahl

Ian Van Dahl

Armin Van Buuren

Armin Van Buuren

Mona Lisa as you've never seen her before

You'll have to watch all the way to the end to see Mona but it's well worth it. Extrapolate forward a decade and imagine this kind of processing done in real time in virtual worlds. Amazing! [via Brownian Emotion]

Corruption, dead bodies, Yakuza… Sounds like a movie

Al Lewis, a columnist for The Denver Post Newspaper has published an article that has some stunning allegations that the Japanese mafia (Yakuza) are quietly running the mortuary businesses in Japan.  John Kamm, a gaijin working in the mortuary business ... Read more

Developing a Dokdo/Takeshima database

We need to develop some sort of Dokdo/Takeshima database. Gerry’s posts are doing great work, and are great medicine for Dokdo fever. In addition to each post, there are mountains of comments with additional information. However, finding all this information ... Read more

Is innovation possible in every market and product category?

Innovation is the hot topic of the day in the business world, and it seems that nearly every company in nearly every industry is at least paying lip service to the importance of innovation. But have some market niches and ... Read more