What’s Your Vote Worth?
Half of group of NYU students said they’d give up their right to vote forever for $1 million.
My question is, what about the other half?
Let’s say I could earn just 6% per year (after taxes) on $1 million. Isn’t $60,000…
Review: Tiger ‘08 Demo for XBox 360
That’s right, I’m reviewing the demo of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2008 for XBox 360. Why? The last version of Tiger I played at any length was 2004 for PS2. I’m trying to figure out whether to buy, and I’m unwilling to pay…
Low Battery Alert Using growlnotify
A few days ago, I set out trying to use Growl to let myself know my battery level was getting low.
I was going to write a longer post about my solution, but this morning, somebody posted a hint at macosxhints.com this morning about…
Any Three Darts
Since I bought my dartboard, I’ve been trying to find a yardstick for my own performance at 301. Three-dart average scores for pros are easy to find, but I haven’t come across any kind of guide for beginners.
Nor, I should say,…
Zotero vs. Endnote for Fall of ‘07
NBC + Amazon: No Market Share Worries?
The deal, as I’m sure you’re aware, is that NBC has left Apple for supposedly greener pastures, Amazon’s Unbox video download service. But forgetting about more restrictive DRM, weirder pricing schemes, and the rest, I’m stuck thinking about a few obvious…
Miss The South Carolina T-Shirt
A fine t-shirt on Zazzle.com, expertly designed by my friend Jay, who writes:
Don’t let The Iraq win. Buy one for everywhere like such as your country.
You heard the man.
UPDATE: Jay’s shirt has made the Zazzle Blog and was their Hottest T-Shirt…
Bringing Google Calendar to My Desktop
For a long time, I’ve wanted fast access to Google Calendar’s agenda view. Essentially, I don’t like waiting for the page to load every time I have to remind myself of the time of some appointment in the next day…
Arden Rips Off Charitable Company
I’ll cut straight to the image, courtesy younggogetter.com:
The saddest part is that Mondonation was a decent company just piping money to charities. Arden is, on the other hand, owned by Unilever, whose entry at Responsible Shopper is worth a glance.
[via Daring…
Lifehacker Battery Roundup
Some insane battery hacks recently on Lifehacker:
- Turn a C battery into a D battery with quarters
- Get eight hearing-aid batteries from a single 12-volt
- Get six AAA/AAAA batteries from a single 9-volt
UPDATE: Here’s another, the best yet:
Overheard at PodCamp
After a short while at PodCamp Pittsburgh 2, my ears were already overfull of emphatic platitudes and in-jokes:
- “Your social media is you.”
- “If you can’t delegate, you are dead, in this business, or non-business.”
- “Did I just break the InterWebs? I hate…
Three Months Later
Say what you will — nay, what we ALL will — but looking back over Wikipedia’s list of Sanjaya’s performances, I remember every one of them, just because of how distinctive they were.
(The only other thing I remember every one…
Birthday + Boxout = Baadasssss
Birthday + Boxout
Originally uploaded by devanpgh
Happy birthday, babe. Love, MySpace.
Rogen on Conan
DVRed Seth Rogen on Late Night. Felt rehearsed and not very funny, but some interesting facts:
- Rogen is 25. I would’ve put him on 32 or more.
- Rogen wrote Superbad at age 13.
- The lead role in the film was supposed to go to…
GMO: Bring it on
Coming soon: Genetically engineered tomatoes that smell and taste like basil (among other ingredients). This would save me 15 minutes every time I make pomodoro sauce.
Phishing Quiz
A quiz on identifying genuine sites. I got 9 out of 10, but I missed one of the 8 “Which site is real?” questions, which I never thought would happen. Yikes. Post yer scores.
How Tim Duncan is Like Harrison Ford
As usual, Bill Simmons delivers on the sports:pop culture analogies (in a way that I find Klosterman rarely does). His point: Duncan is underrated:
Once upon a time, Harrison Ford pumped out monster hits for 15 solid years before everyone suddenly…
Hint: It’s not Whole Foods
I won’t mention names, because I’m not sure I’m allowed, but one of the companies in which I own shares is not known for their social responsibility, to say the list. Buying their stock is something I regret on many…
Fluid Madness
No, that’s not an antiquated name for syphilis; it’s the best title I could think of for a round-up of badass fluid videos on youtube:
- Shampoo doing a crazy fountain dance. I am SO trying this. In the final moments, there’s…
Bad data?
Swivel.com, which visualizes user-provided data, has a new dataset on the mainstream transition from vinyl records to cassette tapes to compact discs to iPods.
It’s a neat graph, but the story changes when you click the “absolute” link above the graph. Looking…
Bell’s Hells
There’s a fascinating piece in the Washington Post right now about a stunt involving Joshua Bell playing at a Metro stop to see how much people would notice.
Bell is one of the most well-reputed classical violinists in the world, but that…
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First time since September
Originally uploaded by devanpgh.
First time since September.
Todo
Countries Quiz
Another delightful geography quiz: Name as many UN-recognized nations as you can in 10 minutes. When time ran out on me, 90 countries remained. I’m proud of it, but I don’t think it’ll stand. Jay, take ‘er down.
Handwriting Non-Recognition
My handwriting blows. I was messing around with some handwriting recognition software, seeing if I could digitize my notes. Below is what it came up with, based on one of the neater pages in my notebook that I could find.…
The Eyes Have It
Here’s an article on how human eyes might be indicators of personality. More pits in the iris means correlates with “tender, warm, and trusting” personalities, and more curves around the edge correlates with neurosis and impulsiveness.
The most important objection here,…
I Hardly Know Her
The New Yorker’s token poker article from a few years back. I remember reading this in the magazine and thinking, “Really? Poker?” I am always a few years behind.
Royal Flush
Web -1.0?
Why is Fotolog bigger than Flickr (according to Alexa, for what that’s worth)? A nice bit from the post:
As an aside, MySpace didn’t really fit the Web 2.0 mold either, nobody really talked about it until after it got huge, and…
Smoking Ban
While we were out: A judge enjoined the Allegheny County smoking ban. Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em, until a full hearing in May. Just, not near me, cancer-lover.
Now I’ll Never Get to Sleep
The bad news: Adding milk to tea eliminates cardiovascular benefits.
The limited, problematic good news: Caseins (certain milk proteins) seem to be the culprit, so those who add soy milk to their black tea (including me, since I rarely have real…
Also, Go Blue
Here’s why I’m glad Ohio St. lost (with apologies to the native Ohioans nearby): The BCS computer rankings again become problematic.
It’s like this: After last night’s voiping of Ohio State, the Gators ended up in first place in both the AP…
