items of note from the last week
February 8th, 2011
- The Different Types of Pasta: What Kind is on my Plate?
- simply awesome. more than you ever wanted to know about the categorization of the pasta on your plate.
items of note from the last week
January 26th, 2011
- Comic for January 21, 2011
- there’s good money to be made in crumb-snatching…
items of note from the last week
January 19th, 2011
- Comic for January 17, 2011
- this needs to be added to a “how to talk with engineers 101″ course.
hans rosling and the joy of stats
January 17th, 2011
[link to the embedded video above]
we certainly have a long way to go to improve the quality of life for a large percentage of the world, but there’s hope that we have some momentum in the right direction. this piece might seem a little overly-polished, glossing over the details, but he’s done the number-crunching to back it up. more along these lines from his website. (fair warning: the gapminder data visualization tool is highly addictive.)
items of note from the last week
January 3rd, 2011
- xkcd: Audiophiles
- a conversation like this led to laura and i buying a squeezebox over a pair of crappy speakers for music in our kitchen.
some mucking around with the ngram viewer
December 31st, 2010
last weekend, in the midst of an epic head cold, i played around with google’s ngram viewer. most of these speak for themselves…
(if you’re reading this via Facebook, they don’t like the embedded images thing — check out the post on my website.)
items of note from the last week
December 27th, 2010
- Incident
- merry christmas, all ye nerds.
items of note from the last week
December 20th, 2010
- Word Lens
- the technological elements here are pretty basic: OCR, text translation, and graphical manipulation. but the marriage of the three is impressively mindblowing. coming soon: google goggles you can actually wear to interpret the world you see.
items of note from the last week
December 5th, 2010
- Comic for December 3, 2010
- every product manager’s dream: some day i will be the man who changed an industry with his powerpoint slides… - Business Idea
- oh that it worked this way. i’d be collecting from Dropbox (my idea: 2004) and every single hardware mp3 maker (my idea: 1998). or… maybe i need to work on following through on my ideas — or at least patenting them, a la IBM.
