Print the Chaff
January 9th, 2006 by Laura Moncur in Site NewsMike and I were at CES (the Consumer Electronics Show) last week. It was an interesting experience and I enjoyed looking at all the new things that will be available to the public soon. When deciding what to focus on, I felt a strange urge to write about EVERYTHING. It was completely impossible for me to do and the futility of it all made me feel a little bit like a failure.
I was going to write an entry on the concept of innovation, so I typed the word, “new” into the quotations search. Sometimes I believe divinity talks to us through the randomness of numbers. The preceeding quotation showed up as the second quote out of 460 because the word “newspaper” has the word “new” within it. It was the exact quote I needed to quit taking myself so seriously.
I wrote about the things that interested me the most. If that’s separating the wheat from the chaff and printing the chaff, so be it. I won’t be the first editor to do so.
You can see what did make the grade here:
- The Gadgets Page – Gadget news and reviews for the real world
- Starling Fitness – Fitness, diet, and health weblog
Hope you enjoy the new gadgets that I found interesting enough to spend a week writing about. I sure did!
January 13th, 2006 at 11:36 pm
you wrote “I believe divinity talks to us through the randomness of numbers”. wow — great quote!
Albert Einstein didn’t see it this way when he told max born that God doesn’t play dice… but quantum mechanics may be precisely this!
nothing new — the same idea is echoed in the notion of casting lots in scripture, and seems Buddhist too.
ramifications may reverberate across a range of disciplines… e.g. consciousness, chaos, complexity.