Very Advanced

We just gave Sophia her first computer.
Now, I know what you’re thinking. “Michael, your daughter is clearly very advanced, a tribute to her Mother’s fine genetic material and persistent tutelage; why on earth did you wait until she was almost 2 years old to provide her with her own laptop?”
An excellent question, one that is [...]

RSS Explained, In Very Plain English

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I’ve tried to explain RSS newsreaders before, but these guys do a much better job than I ever could.

100,000 Spam Comments Blocked!

If you have a wordpress blog, I highly, highly recommend that you install the Akismet spam plug-in. It just flat out works!

Cumulative Advantage

A great article in the NY Times about how market rush can influence the popularity of certain songs and artists. In other words, songs become popular because they are popular with a heavily influential group of first movers. Read the article. The experiment they ran is fascinating.
… when people tend to like what other people [...]

Phreaky Phriday: Bacon Machine

Seems clear enough:

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