Having a music-listening-day in work today, drowning out all the background noise. Going to add my list of good songs of the day. REM – At My Most Beautiful Arcade Fire – Born on a Train Michelle Branch – Goodbye to You Ingrid Michaelson – Keep Breathing Vega4 – Life is Beautiful Snow Patrol – [ Read More ]
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Well today is a nerdy day. I’ve been playing around with a few new Web2.0 app things (namely www.activebudget.org) and want to try some of this AJAX stuff. Since python and django are the flavour of the day at work I decided to try to set that up, unfortunately I don’t really have a clue [ Read More ]
There’s several things I’d like to do lately, a lot of them are reading related. “Read Euler, read Euler, he is the Master of us all” – as a Maths head, it’s always fun to get into the background of things. Euler’s pretty cool, bridges of Koningsburg (sp?) is always a good one. The medieval [ Read More ]
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Clocky is the alarm clock that runs and hides when you press snooze, so when your snooze time is up, it’s now on the other side of the room, forcing you to get out of bed to find it and turn it off. Clever, simple and effective. (not available in Ireland though) I also think [ Read More ]
This is brilliant. Salvador Dali appeared on the old “What’s My Line?” TV show, where the guests are blindfolded and ask yes or no questions in order to identify the person on stage. The quote I like best is “So this man can do anything, except sport?!“ Also, I didn’t realise he was such a [ Read More ]
At this bizarre Russian site, you can find example of what to do when you have too much cable, and time, on your hands. Can’t make head or tails of the site — but it looks pretty cool.
This is a summary of a prison simulation run at Stanford University. (The so-called ‘Stanford Prison Experiment’). It has so many parallels with the behaviour and stories you hear about prison and guard behaviour — for me it was more harrowing to see how the guards developed. If the question were ‘Is power tantamount to [ Read More ]
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I realise that, of late, this has been a dumping ground for things I’ve stumbled across, without any real content from me, guess I’ll need to work on that, in the meantime, here’s some amusing pop-ups cataloged at worsethanfailure.com: Ohhh…. google’s gotta get some stick about this one:
In my job I’m constantly talking about ‘big’ numbers… and sometimes you can lose your sense of perspective. Here’s a quick reminder of what exactly those numbers mean: This is $1 million in pennies (100,016,640 pennies!) Value: $1,000,166.40 Width: 12 feet (7 feet) Height: 12 feet (7 feet) Thickness: 12 feet (7 feet) Total weight: [ Read More ]
Well it made me smile: At least they know their audience… their website is best viewed in Firefox. Nice. (and they have Podcasts….)
