Monthly Archives: March 2008
A little logo goodness for the weekend.
Image source: Talent imitates, genius steals Faris at Talent imitates, genius steals wrote up a great post on the Fed Ex logo, which has been one of my all time favorites for years. I’m sure we’ll familiar with it, but … Continue reading
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Ingredients for a comeback: Carly Simon
Image source: Wikipedia This is going to be slightly off topic, so you’ve been warned. Carly Simon seems to be bubbling up into pop culture consciousness, even without being included on a Quentin Tarantino/ Wes Anderson film soundtrack. Her controversial … Continue reading
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Why I subscribe to the Economist, even if I get stressed out when it arrives early.
Image source: Economist.com Coming from home last Thursday, I sorted through my mail to find my copy of the Economist, one day early from its usual Friday delivery. Of course, last week’s copy has barely been opened, and now the … Continue reading
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6.6 degrees of seperation
Frank pointed out some clever research at Microsoft Research. Eric Horvitz and Jure Leskovec parsed through one month of MSN messenger communication, or about 1 billion conversations a day. Among the 240 million users, they discovered an average of 6.6 … Continue reading
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the frequency of a word: Awesomeness
Figure 1. Frequency from 2/2004 to 2/2008 Figure 2. Frequency from 4/2005 to 2/2008 Every once in a while, I get the inclination to try to do a little math. It’s a dangerous endeavor, but sometimes I can’t help myself. … Continue reading
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Regional social networks
I have IM accounts on AIM, iChat, Yahoo, MSN, Gmail and Skype. (Years ago, I once used ICQ and IRC.) I always find it interesting, how certain services are popular in specific countries. AIM is most popular in the US, … Continue reading
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March is the month of magazines
Image source: Style.com and Vogue.co.uk When March rolls around each year, fashion magazines present their Spring/ Summer fashion issues. This usually means issues of a US-published magazine such as Vogue are hundreds of pages thicker than others times of the … Continue reading
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My First Songchart: The Directly Proportional Relationship Between Money and Problems
Brian hooked me up to this great Flickr group, Songchart, which combines pop culture references with graphs and charts. So, I gave it a go. Try to guess the song. Enjoy. Update: Link to the reference.
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Gary Gygax died on Tuesday.
Images source: Wired.com I was sad to just find out that Gary Gygax, the creator of Dungeons & Dragons died on Tuesday. I haven’t played D&D in about twenty years, and when I did I was never particularly very good … Continue reading
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