by Tom | Jan 13, 2012 | Google+
Future of advertising: brilliant SMBC comic. Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
by Tom | Jan 10, 2012 | Google+
Common Crawl.Not a new swimming style, rather an open set of five billion web pages crawled regularly. You can run a query against the whole corpus using Amazon's infrastructure for around $150.Nice idea. If you have an internet-scale question, you can answer it...
by Tom | Jan 10, 2012 | Google+
Sad and all too true.I hadn't considered the equivalence between piracy (in content owners' terms), wastage (in supermarket terms) or fraud (in credit card providers' terms). It feels like there is something there. There are penty of laws against...
by Tom | Jan 10, 2012 | Google+
The orexin system and why we snooze after lunch.I hadn't come across this hormonal system before (it was only discovered in rats around 1998) but it sounds very interesting.More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orexin. » Why Sugar Makes Us Sleepy (And Protein...
by Tom | Jan 10, 2012 | Google+
The Physics Book.Looks like a lovely coffee table addition. The Physics Book: An Illustrated Chronology of How We Understand the Universe Making knowledge digestible in the age of information overload, or what a cat has to do with quasicrystals. Einstein famously...
