Entries Tagged 'Miscellaneous' ↓

Enter keywords or a URL into the TouchGraph Google Browser and you’ll get a nice visualization of website connectivity based on Google search results.  After the map is generated you can filter certain sites and dynamically recluster your results (though with little documentation it’s not immediately clear what’s being accomplished).
The results for JimGibbon.com were somewhat […]

Here is the only fashion advice I’m every going to give on this website:
Opt for anti-reflective lens coating when you get your next pair of glasses.  It’s worth the money.
It’s really a shame that sales people make it seem like this option is the equivalent of undercoating on a used car or an extended warranty […]

The public editor of the NY Times calls out the paper for writing 3,124 articles on Nielsen ratings over the last 25 years and only mentioning “margin of error” twice.  In other words, the paper has consistently reported Nielsen TV rankings without discussing whether the differences among show rankings were statistically significant.  You thought you […]

You know the Bible 98%!

Wow! You are awesome! You are a true Biblical scholar, not just a hearer but a personal reader! The books, the characters, the events, the verses - you know it all! You are fantastic! You agree with Jeremy that this blurb is excessive! You grow […]

This is a tangent, but did anyone else think it was just a little too coincidental that on the same day it became possible to pre-order Harry Potter and the Deathly Gallows, we learn that nude pictures of Daniel Radcliffe (the actor who plays Harry Potter in the movies) are being used to promote a […]

The other day I surfed over to look at the graphic design portfolio of one of my closest college friends and former roommate, David Yun.  He’s now in the graphic design program at Yale and putting together a growing collection of work (employers take note!)
The project that really caught my eye was his visualization of […]

The New York Times had a fascinating article last week on out-of-body experiences and the brain activity that may account for them.  A Swiss neurologist was apparently zapping people’s brains (that’s the technical description) in a way that caused them to experience bizarre sensations.  Here’s an example:
Six years ago, another of Dr. Blanke’s patients underwent […]