All I need is a pair of pants
Check out this post from apophenia (no I didn’t write it 🙂 > Dear Clothing Designers, I am disappointed in your lack of understanding of the diversity of women’s bodies. I trai...
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December 2007
What does Roger Clemens have in common with the Queen of England?
Youtube! > Here is Roger Clemens denying his use of steroids….. And here is The Official YouTube channel of the british monarchy…..
Keep an eye on Inquisix
Here’s an interesting new product, just into beta: Inquisix. This is a service for sales people who need a more effective alternative to cold calling to generate leads. They say: “Now there’s no need to waste time on cold calling when contacts are just an Inquisix Trusted...
Read more →Revolution, Not Evolution
Check out this post from I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS: > A couple months have passed since I announced Team Cringely, my plan to [win the Google Lunar X Prize](http://www.googlelunarxp...
Read more →What the world has come to
Andrew Sullivan of The Atlantic with a interesting article about torture.
Andy Payne goes to Flexcamp
Andy went to FlexCamp last week and was good enough to write up his observations. He says: > “The new Flash 9 Player puts Flash squarely on par with Java (technology-wis...
Read more →Strange but true…
Just a curious fact from Scientific American: > “All the bacteria living inside you would fill a half-gallon jug; there are 10 times more bacterial cells in your body than human cells [snip…]” (from Scientific American: Strange But True)
32 Places With Funny Names
I discovered a new funny blog: it’s the List of Lists blog. For example, check out this post from A List of Lists: > Arsoli (Lazio, Italy) Bastard (Norway) Brown Willy (Cornwall,UK) Chinaman’s Knob...
Read more →Old wives tale, once more, turns out to be true
Have you had this debate? Does cold weather cause people to catch colds more easily or not? Well here’s an interesting article that says there is ‘scientific’ proof that flu infections do in fact spread more during cold winter months: > “Researchers in New York believe they have solved one of the gr...
Read more →Silly/Funny YouTube
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi4fzvQ6I-o&rel=1]
“Iterate in the marketplace, not in the conference room”
Chris Herot tells the story of Convoq (which then became Zingdom) from the very beginning to the very end. An interesting chronology, worth reading if you’re thinking of (or are currently) playing the startup game. > “The company former...
Read more →What’s happening to Google?
You know I am a fan of Google. But lately I’ve had some conversations which have sensitized me to noticing the quality of Google’s search results. As I’ve written elsewhere, the world of [Search Engine Optimization is all about manipulating Google’s search resu...
Read more →“We are the people we have been waiting for.”
Tom Friedman recently had a good column about global warming (“global climate change”) and what is, or should be being done about it, where he quotes the Onion: ““Fall, the long-running series of shorter days and cooler nights, was canceled earlier this week after nearly 3 billion seasons on Earth, ...
Read more →Computer Science: Theory and Practice
Joel Spolsky of Joel on Software gave an outstanding talk at Yale which he has written up on his blog. For budding Computer Science majors, people getting into the computer world or business, there is a lot of good wisdom to be found here: My favorite passage is the discussion about the valu...
Read more →Once more, why dos’t thou blog?
Recently there was a comment to one of my post asking the perennial question that non-bloggers ask of bloggers, (and bloggers ask of themselve all the time too 🙂 > “Hello, I was wondering if you could answer these 3 simple questions for a school project about blog...
Read more →[GEEKY] SEO Expert Advice, debunked
Search Engine Optimization is a weird wacky world with experts, oracles, analysis, opinion and superstition. If you are into it, here’s a look at how complex and intricate SEO gets. But when there are gazillions of dollars involved, I guess is kind of inevitable.
Amazing pictures
I can’t figure out exactly how it was made. I would have expected to see the photographer and camera in each shot. They must be some kind of composite. Anyway, look at all of these amazing pictures!
Are we (we are) heading for a recession?
Just check out this well argued, detailed piece, “Wake up to the dangers of a deepening crisis”, by Lawrence Summers: > “Three months ago it was reasonable to expect that th...
Read more →Wikipedia on a map
I am a huge fan of Wikipedia. Here’s a new neat hack: Wikipedia Vision. This is a live, animated, world map, showing in real time each edit to the Wikipedia, as it happens. Makes the world feel even smaller, doesn’t it? It’s a cool way to learn about topics in Wikipedia that you may not have known about. Check out Wikipedia Vision
November 2007
Building traffic for your blog
If you’re a regular reader you know that I’ve been studying Search Engine Optimization. As I’ve said before, it’s one of those topics that sounds like all common sense once you hear it, but then why didn’t you think of it yourself? Anyway here’s a good article with lots of good solid common sense about building traffic for your blog.