This little gem of an idea was shared to me via Google Reader by my friend Cat of Pizza Diavola. Spanish designer Oscar Diaz took the usually boring concept of a calendar and came up with a way to really make it pop. Through the power of capillary action (for you laypeople, what allows paper [...]
Although I’ve spoken at lengths about my love for Google, I am sensitive to privacy concerns that more and more people are having that Google just knows too much about me. Thankfully, the brilliant thinkers over at Google have created a new option to help those who are nervous about Big Brother Google: (Yes, it’s [...]
I recently finished reading The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America, a great collection of some of multibillionaire Warren Buffett’s greatest writings on business as collected and introduced by Lawrence Cunningham, and would highly recommend it to anyone who wants to know a bit more about investing or business or both. The book [...]
Put this in the “if you are nerdy, you will enjoy this” category. Nerdy cows go “mu”: Courtesy of JXZ (Image Credit)
It’s not just Dilbert who makes fun of forecasting, XKCD is into it as well: I wouldn’t call it a hobby, though. More like a day job that involves doing what is effectively described above, but making slightly more reasonable assumptions .
No, they’re not my weakness. But apparently they are in Truro, MA, where a town which seems to have skimped on its basic math finds themselves besieged by fractions (HT: Neil Saunders’ Friendfeed): In a vote of 136 to 70, voters passed a new time limit on how quickly a cottage colony, cabin colony, motel or [...]
One of my favorite aspects of Charles Schulz’s Peanuts are Snoopy’s attempts at novel-writing and his classic opening sentence: It was a dark and stormy night… This was, of course, immediately followed by some comically ingenious sentence which made it immediately obvious that Snoopy, although quite creative (and talented! how many dogs do you know who can [...]
… is another man’s gold. Every investor dreams to find something that nobody wants (and hence are willing to part with cheaply) and be able to turn it into something that everyone wants (and hence something you can sell for a lot). Well, a prefecture in Japan stumbled on just that. From the always amusing [...]
Econo/politco blogger Megan McArdle explains her rationale for why we need medical resident work reform (which I’ve posted on here and here): I am a gold medalist in the macho Sleepless Working Olympics. I once worked a 60-hour shift without sleep. (Yes, that’s 2.5 days without any shuteye.) One stormy February, I put in 468 [...]
I recently made a post over at Bench Press on a series of images which really helps to give some perspective on just how large the universe is:Breathtaking, isn’t it? For more gorgeous pictures (and a sense of just how small you are in the grand scale of things), check out the post at the [...]