Switch the frogs to the opposite side within 2 minutes.

Ideas spread when people choose to spread them. Here are some reasons why:

1. I spread your idea because it makes me feel generous.
2. ...because I feel smart alerting others to what I discovered.
3. ...because I care about the outcome and want you (the creator of the idea) to succeed.
4. ...because I have no choice. Every time I use your product, I spread the idea (Hotmail, iPad, a tattoo).
5. ...because there's a financial benefit directly to me (Amazon affiliates, mlm).
6. ...because it's funny and laughing alone is no fun.
7. ...because I'm lonely and sharing an idea solves that problem, at least for a while.
8. ...because I'm angry and I want to enlist others in my outrage (or in shutting you down).
9. ...because both my friend and I will benefit if I share the idea (Groupon).
10. ...because you asked me to, and it's hard to say no to you.
11. ...because I can use the idea to introduce people to one another, and making a match is both fun in the short run and community-building.
12. ...because your service works better if all my friends use it (email, Facebook).
13. ...because if everyone knew this idea, I'd be happier.
14. ...because your idea says something that I have trouble saying directly (AA, a blog post, a book).
15. ...because I care about someone and this idea will make them happier or healthier.
16. ...because it's fun to make another teen snicker about prurient stuff we're not supposed to see.
17. ...because the tribe needs to know about this if we're going to avoid an external threat.
18. ...because the tribe needs to know about this if we're going to maintain internal order.
19. ...because it's my job.
20. I spread your idea because I'm in awe of your art and the only way I can repay you is to share that art with others.

The TKL segment starts at around minute 25.

By tiers:

• Tier One: C#, Java, PHP, C++, Objective C, JavaScript, Python, C, Ruby, Perl and Shell
• Tier Two: Scala, Actionscript, Haskell,
• Tier Three: R, Assembly, Visual Basic, Coldfusion, F##, Groovy, ASP, Clojure, Erlang, Lua, Scheme, Common List, Emacs Lisp
• Tier Four: D, Fortran, OCaml, Tcl, Go, Smalltalk, Viml
• Tier Five: IO, Racket, VHDL, Verilog, Haxe, Objective-J, Boo, Vala, Coffeescript, Supercollider, Ada, Self, Arc, Eiffel, Factor, Nu, Sclang, PureData, Duby, ooc

This little tip just changed my life… I swear. I've been looking FOR-EV-ER for a way to filter my Thunderbird Inbox so that I see only the "starred" messages. Despite my poking and prodding and searching I couldn't figure out how until today.

When you're building your filter/custom view/folder criteria, "starred" is not an option in the first drop down (like Flag, Tags, and Junk Status are). Additionally, despite the fact that the mail server knows all about whether a message is "starred" or not, it's not in the header of the email either

In Thunderbird, Starred is a STATUS!

That's right, a STATUS. Drop the first box down and select "Status", drop the second box down and select "is", then drop the third box down and select "Starred". That's it, you're done.

Thanks to Scott Moser, Dustin Kirkland and the whole server team!

Excellent talk by Lawrence Krauss

The Khan Academy is a non-for-profit with the mission of providing world-class education to anyone, anywhere. Despite being the work of one man, Salman Khan, the 1600+ video library is the most-used educational video resource in the world (as measured by YouTube video views per day and unique users per month).

I'll be starting with one of my favourite subjects (outside of technology) which is biology and will probably then move onto organic chemistry and then physics.

For fun, I might dabble a little in Linear algebra, probability and statistics - we'll see...

I highly recommend Khan - give it a shot...