Archive for August, 2009
Orange d3o goo could be in your laptop in the near future. I ditched the site a while ago, but not everyone did. Interesting breakdown by map, of who the MySpace users are. Will the Real MySpace Users Please Speak Up? A good post. The Importance of Paying Your Dues. Wind farms mess up Doppler [ READ MORE ]
Sorry there aren’t more of these, but Saturday is a day for beach fun. So I tend to spend a bit less time on the computer. Cooper, a cat with his own blog and camera. http://www.photographercat.com Indexed, slightly cynical and yet humorous index card graphs. This is Indexed People of Walmart. A site dedicated to all the strange [ READ MORE ]
“There is never enough time to do it right, but there is always enough time to do it over. ” Meet my dog Patches. Anatole France “If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.” Data Swamps Science Historians. Jeff Rothenberg, “Digital information lasts forever — or five years” Amazing depression [ READ MORE ]
Second Degree Murder and Six Other Crimes Cheaper than Pirating Music. Contrary to popular belief, the Internet Generation writes more often and in more ways than previous generations. Clive Thompson on the New Literacy New Steam powered car breaks century-old speed record. This is a bacon creation that actually looks good. http://baconcamp.org/Bacone How a wood carver cracked the code [ READ MORE ]
Very good TED video. Everything I thought I knew about motivation is wrong. Incentives do not breed creativity. Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation Did you know that all Banana trees are clones? The Unfortunate Sex Life of the Banana Very interesting and somewhat chilling video of Predator UAV operators. Targeting terrorists from hundreds of [ READ MORE ]
The original version of this site started out as a place to share the links I found on the web with my friends and family. With the rise of Twitter and Facebook that purpose became less and less necessary for me. Consequently, when my job situation changed and I no longer had as much time [ READ MORE ]
