Does the writer’s strike have you down? Miss The Daily Show? Here are some things you can do: Download Miro. Watch some classic Daily Show clips here. Read and watch the official blog of the writer’s strike. Watch the following YouTube video made by some striking Daily Show writers:
A map of the world showing the ratio of patients to doctors. {maps, tufte, inequality}
Turns out there’s a reason they called it The Manhattan Project. In “The Manhattan Project” … Dr. Norris writes about the Manhattan Project’s Manhattan locations. He says the borough had at least 10 sites, all but one still standing. They include warehouses that held uranium, laboratories that split the atom, and the project’s first headquarters [...]
I am very excited about IMAP support on Gmail. Maybe it isn’t healthy for someone to be so excited about e-mail … but this is huge. Why? Especially when I already have a reliable IMAP service I’ve been happy with for years? Well, first of all, lets talk about why IMAP is different from POP. [...]
(Click here to see a side-by-side comparison of the cameras discussed in this post.) Buying a compact digital camera is always a trade-off. In such a small box, if you stuff a feature in one side, another feature pops out the other end. That wouldn’t be so bad if companies were honest about the trade-offs [...]
In his book The Wisdom of Crowds James Surowiecki relates an anecdote about “Francis Galton’s surprise that the crowd at a county fair accurately guessed the butchered … weight of an ox when their individual guesses were averaged.” While individual guesses varied widely, the median of the crowd’s guesses was spot-on. The implication being that [...]
iPhone owners are up in arms about the fact that Apple blocked third party applications. Personally I think these people should focus their wrath squarely on the practice of SIM card locking which should arguably be illegal. I think the Brazilians have the right idea, with their anti-SIM locking campaign. As John Gruber points out, [...]
Via How Design: “Moon Mapping from the U.S. Geological Survey Astrogeology Research Project.” {design, maps, moon, astronomy}
As of now I will stop posting tweets to this blog. Once again this blog will become a space reserved for long-form blogging. You can continue to read my tweets in the sidebar on the right, or over at my Twitter page. At the same time, I’ve stopped using Twitter as a feed aggregator to [...]
Every Taiwanese has a National ID Card 身分證 with its own unique number, not unlike a Social Security number in the US. The difference is that every legal permanent resident in the US also has a Social Security number, but foreigners living legally in Taiwan are given a different number. Instead of a National ID [...]