- Charlie’s Diary: The High Frontier, Redux
- Charles Stross on why space colonisation is a ridiculous idea. Colonising our own deserts and oceans is much, much easier but we’re in no rush to do that. (via Tom Taylor)
- Taco Bell and the Golden Age of Drive-Thru - BusinessWeek
- On the processes and efficiencies in fast food restaurant kitchens. I had no idea 70% of US fast-food business was drive-thrus. (via Tom Taylor)
- Pret A Manger, With New Fast-Food Ideas, Gains a Foothold in United States - NYTimes.com
- That Taco Bell article reminded me of this one about Pret A Manger from a month ago, about how they motivate their staff.
- Scott Chacon on the Interwebs - GitHub Flow
- How GitHub manage their own git workflow. Sounds good to me. (via Tom Taylor)
- Three different definitions of retirement and the resulting confusion Early Retirement Extreme: — when more time > more money
- I’m not sure how accurate or generalisable this is, but I like the suggested generational distinctions between what “retirement” means.
- The Technium: The Futurist’s Dilemma
- “Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be unbelievable. … the sweet spot that science fiction authors aim for” is the point on the cusp of “plausibility and fantasy”.
- Wild things: 16 films featuring Manic Pixie Dream Girls | Film | Inventory | The A.V. Club
- I’m one of those sensitive boys who has to remind himself when watching these films that the Manic Pixie Dream Girl does not exist. Only in the movies. (via John August)