Sometimes plans are guidelines, parameters, a way to know where the edges exist, so you can adapt accordingly.

• From a recent article in Esquire about the turbulent Facebook IPO:

Top Facebook User by City
​1. Bangkok, 8.7 million
​2. Jakarta, 7.4 million
​3. Istanbul, 7 million
​Top U. S. City? No. 12. New York, 3.4 million 
​Uh ... San Francisco? No. 58, with 856,740

• Bill Clinton, during his speech at the DNC, almost doubled the length of what was originally written by effectively ad-libbing as he spoke. Let's put politics and Clinton aside for a moment and let's celebrate the person in charge of the Teleprompter as they had to keep up with the speech as it happened too. 
• Take your typical RPG game, remove the pseudo-realism and instead imbue it with stylized graphics, superb audio and a story line with simpler boundaries and you end up with the award-winning Bastion. This week it became available for the iPad and it is a joy to play.

Nothing is ever just what you think it is. 

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