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Chart Of The Day

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:42:14 -0800

Chart Of The Day

What does it mean if you make very accurate predictions of outcomes?:

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:32:30 -0800

What does it mean if you make very accurate predictions of outcomes?:

The Technium: The Game-ified Life

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:39:39 -0800

The Technium: The Game-ified Life

Shiny Objects

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:15:14 -0800

Shiny Objects

via Navneet Nair

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:31:22 -0800

via Navneet Nair

Chrome starts fast (pointer)

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:52:49 -0800

Chrome starts fast (pointer)

India now has social networks related to caste:

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:28:36 -0800

India now has social networks related to caste:

"readers wanted to share articles that inspired awe, an emotion that the researchers investigated..."

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:24:48 -0800

“readers wanted to share articles that inspired awe, an emotion that the researchers investigated after noticing how many science articles made the list.”

- Findings - People Share News Online That Inspires Awe, Researchers Find - NYTimes.com

"The diamond invention .. is a mechanism for converting tiny crystals of carbon into universally..."

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:08:55 -0800

“The diamond invention .. is a mechanism for converting tiny crystals of carbon into universally recognized tokens of wealth, power, and romance. To achieve this goal, De Beers had to control demand as well as supply. Both women and men had to be made to perceive diamonds not as marketable precious stones but as an inseparable part of courtship and married life. To stabilize the market, De Beers had to endow these stones with a sentiment that would inhibit the public from ever reselling them. The illusion had to be created that diamonds were forever — “forever” in the sense that they should never be resold.”

- Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? - The Atlantic (February 1982)

High Scalability: How FarmVille Scales to Harvest 75 Million...

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:30:09 -0800

High Scalability: How FarmVille Scales to Harvest 75 Million Players a Month

ignore the code : Feature creep, web search built into Word

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 09:36:06 -0800

ignore the code : Feature creep, web search built into Word

jboutelle: SlideShare offers branded channels for businesses: http://tcrn.ch/chLRjv

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:18:49 -0800

jboutelle: SlideShare offers branded channels for businesses: http://tcrn.ch/chLRjv:

jboutelle: SlideShare offers branded channels for businesses: http://tcrn.ch/chLRjv

Naming Babies: Why Susie Sells Seashells by the Seashore

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:11:00 -0800

Since my friend Suman was asking for baby-name recommendations on Facebook today, here’s some interesting reading for baby-expecting friends on how our names and birthdays influence what we do and where we live:

For example, according to a Colombia university study, ”Why Susie Sells Seashells by the Seashore: Implicit Egotism and Major Life Decisions”:

People are disproportionately likely to live in places whose names resemble their own first or last names (e.g., people named Louis are disproportionately likely to live in St. Louis)
People are disproportionately likely to live in cities whose names began with their birthday numbers (e.g., Two Harbors, MN)
People disproportionately choose careers whose labels resemble their names (e.g., people named Dennis or Denise are overrepresented among dentists)

This is a newer piece that describes how companies (and people) with easier names succeed more often:

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/01/31/easy__true/

Connecting with... Sam Gosling: Facebook Psychologist

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:55:08 -0800

Connecting with... Sam Gosling: Facebook Psychologist

Star Trek - Game Play Details on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:44:06 -0800

Star Trek - Game Play Details on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

Can being too supportive of your spouse end your relationship?:

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:45:18 -0800

Can being too supportive of your spouse end your relationship?:

"all these little web 2.0 wannabees have spent an inordinate amount of our attention on ad-driven..."

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:16:33 -0800

“all these little web 2.0 wannabees have spent an inordinate amount of our attention on ad-driven business models resulting in a big steaming 2-Founders-1-Cup of FAIL”

- Subscriptions are the New BLACK. (+ why Facebook, Google, & Apple will own your wallet by 2015) - Master of 500 Hats

How do our parents affect what we look for in a mate?:

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:29:47 -0800

How do our parents affect what we look for in a mate?:

Is Gatorade the secret to stronger willpower?:

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:29:47 -0800

Is Gatorade the secret to stronger willpower?:

"Ordeals are inferior to modern trial methods because modern defendants don’t believe in iudicium..."

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:52:03 -0800

“Ordeals are inferior to modern trial methods because modern defendants don’t believe in iudicium Dei, not because trial by jury is inherently superior. If modern citizens did have the superstitious belief required for ordeals to work, it might make sense to bring back the cauldrons of boiling water.”

- Justice, medieval style - The Boston Globe