November 2007
47 posts
A Simple Probability Puzzle | Doubting to shuo:... →
Longevity Industry - Executive Articles -... →
The Secret Strategies Behind Many “Viral” Videos →
Firefox 3b1 is now available; Scoble: "much... →
Seth's Blog: Eye tracking rules →
Atlas Shrugged, the movie based on the libertarian... →
Collective Perception →
“[S]uccess is mostly dependent upon elective qualities, not anything with which...”
– Warren Buffet speaking to the Tuck Investment Club
Warren Buffet - Tuck Investment Club →
On Starting a Long-Term Company →
YouTube Comments on the Moon landing @xkcd - A... →
ChaCha: A Bad Idea Poorly Executed, Raises $10... →
It is rare to find a company offering such a game-changing disruptive equation, even in the context of giants like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft.
These are the words of Morton Meyerson, the man who just led ChaCha’s $10 million Series B round of financing.
What is ChaCha? It’s a new search engine that lets users ask questions to a real person, called a search guide, via a chat interface. The...
Jay-Z To Fans: Please Steal My Music →
iTunes buyers who want to purchase Jay-Z’s newest album, the soundtrack to the American Gangster movie, are out of luck. That’s because the rapper insists that fans buy the entire album, not individual tracks, and Apple’s (AAPL) online store won’t allow that. Jay-Z’s not the first artist to stay off of iTunes because of an album vs. tracks dispute (other notable...
The PayPal mafia - Nov. 14, 2007 →
Rands In Repose: The Nerd Handbook →
rwar
religious war. A fierce debate among programmers about the best way to do something. Neither side will admit the other view has any merit and wants everyone to conform to its way of doing things. In Java there are rwars about the ideal form for a beautified java program, where there should be white space, how braces should indent, should you use wildcard imports, coding conventions, is EMACS proof...
The Nerd Handbook →
Woman handles rattlesnake to prove her faith in... →
The Power (and Peril) of Praising Your Kids -- New... →
Walkdiggler’s Blog » Water vs. Coke…Amazing facts... →
Predicition Markets (Predictionmarkets.pdf... →
BBC NEWS | Europe | Mafia's 'Ten Commandments'... →
New York's schools | The great experiment |... →
Overweight People Found Less Likely to Die From... →
The Frontal Cortex : The Subjectivity of Wine →
The New York Times: Overweight people less likely... →
"How Hackers Work" @ Howstuffworks.com →
The easiest way to write
“The easiest way to write a letter, paper or contract for that matter is to turn on the outline format in Word. Then write down your thoughts as different bullets. If they dont logically follow one another dont worry. After writing you then copy and paste the bullets in a logical order. Delete useless items and add new ones. Once you have cut and pasted for a while and added items to make...
Dept. of Criminology: Dangerous Minds: Reporting... →
The Lazy Man's Definitive Guide to Writing an... →
George Soros: "America is on the verge of a very... →
Probabilities in the Game of Monopoly® →
How to Win at Monopoly ® - a Surefire Strategy →
Getting Started With MySQL's Full-Text Search... →
Blogging's Six Pillars
“There are six key differences between blogging and any other communications channel. You can find any of them elsewhere. These are the Six Pillars of Blogging: Publishable.Anyone can publish a blog.You can do it cheaply and post often. Each posting is instantly available worldwide. Findable. Through search engines, people will find blogs by subject, by author, or both. The more you...
PR shops use dirty tactics in war for clients and... →
danieldl. | Blogging's Six Pillars →
Hollywood on strike; many shows to be in repeat. →
Philip B. Corbett -- Talk to the Newsroom -- The... →
Third time’s a charm « Davidville →