Just seen at NPR—Domino's has prototyped a drone for delivering pizza.

Reminds me of this video from Discovery Channel.

“To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.”― Leonard Bernstein

— Stokefire Branding (@stokefire) June 2, 2013

Here's a variation on the Sabbath theme that seems a lot more workable to me. ZenHabits has launched a Simplify Your Day program. Because it seeks to help participants

say “No” to:

• Commitments you can let go
• Appointments that aren’t absolutely essential
• Non-essential to-do items
• Multi-tasking
• Distractions
• Moving quickly
• Doing smaller tasks instead of important tasks

it seems to allow more space for the flow and demands of daily life and concentrate on what we really need—recognizing and focusing on what's important. Just stopping, which seems to be the focus of most of the writing I've seen, is pretty impractical if the people you're with aren't stopping too. Here's an approach that lets you stop when you can and when it's important.

Good morning! RT if you'd rather be running naked through a cornfield singing, "This Land is My Land!"

— Walt Whitman (@TheWaltWhitman) May 21, 2013

For a much more reverent mashup of Whitman, NASA, and Sagan, try this

via Brain Pickings

We can bury our heads in the sand and say the problem is so big that we're never going to be able to create solutions or we can take the plus one approach—meaning that every positive action, no matter how small is a step in the right direction.

• Cathal Armstrong in Arlington