Monthly Archive for July, 2008

Border between Lithuania and Belarus

I had no idea there was a fenced border between Lithuania and Belarus. Now I do, thanks to a typically interesting big picture.

Animal stories

Clever bees and dumb bears (sad).

Graphing and charting on the web

Very useful stuff – I hadn’t seen Processing before – very impressive.

Cracking Kitler

Nice. Personal selection from dudge.

Shrewly not

So the shrew that drinks beer. Certainly, it is worth some study, but surely it isn’t unusual? If I read the numbers correctly, they “drink the equivalent to nine small glasses of wine, or four and half pints of beer” over 12 hours. And this is 3.8%, not 5% (so a lot of our beer is 30% stronger). Even five pints of wifebeater is easy drinking each 12 hours. Not good for the waist or coordination, but that isn’t the issue.

I might be reading it wrong if “the equivalent” means they are actually drinking the pints of volume. As I read it, this means they are drinking the equivalent for their size / mass / volume.

Streamfile

Nice idea for transferring large files: you can download while the file is still being uploaded. Not sure how it will deal with uploads / downloads that are abandoned mid way?

Operations research

Joel makes a good point in his latest column: your internal systems need to ensure that people can deliver effectively even on a bad day. There is a balance to be struck though: there has to be some flexibility on the ground so that staff can work directly with customers.

Punt off

Apparently punt saboteurs are causing problems in Cambridge. There are fewer bridges in Oxford, so it shouldn’t be such a problem.

Giles Coren on fire

As the climate changes and the economy contracts, its good to see that mankind can worry about the important things: that the removal of the letter “a” can ruin a joke about blow jobs.

Convincing people

Lots of good reading on changing people’s minds; the value of free as a marketing tool and a classic of advertising lore from nineteenth century research.

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