by Tom | Jan 5, 2009 | Reading
I liked a lot of these, but the tomatoes was my favourite.
by Tom | Dec 18, 2008 | Business
It had never crossed my mind that there was a good business reason for the minimum monthly payment. There is: people pay their debts down less quickly and therefore the card issuer makes more money. Read more in The Fiendish Genius of Credit-Card Minimum...
by Tom | Dec 17, 2008 | Uncategorized
Freakonomics looks at auction sites like MadBid and describes them as All-Pay Auctions. Looks like I was right to be wary of these things. The thought of protecting ones investment in bidding costs is exactly what people will protect, and therefore end up spending...
by Tom | Dec 17, 2008 | Business
Freakonomics looks at auction sites like MadBid and describes them as All-Pay Auctions. Looks like I was right to be wary of these things. The thought of protecting ones investment in bidding costs is exactly what people will protect, and therefore end up spending...
by Tom | Dec 17, 2008 | IT
Cobian Backup looks like it might be the thing I need to automatically back up my laptop to my portable hard drive. It does open files using volume shadow copy which is very important for me.
by Tom | Dec 16, 2008 | Science
New meta analysis shows that research on weight loss funded by industry had significantly higher quality data. Now how to allow industry funding and weed out the bad apples?
by Tom | Dec 16, 2008 | Science
Using light to reduce skin wrinkles?. Maybe the Aerogarden has even more benefits than we thought.
by Tom | Dec 16, 2008 | Science
Horses can match voices to faces. Based on some clever object permanence-type tests on hosses. Wiffy is delighted.
by Tom | Dec 16, 2008 | Reading
Together for London is a collective venting portal for tube and transport travellers. Nothing earth-shattering there yet. As the acronym might suggest, this is run by TfL. I particularly like the campaign “I will control my flatulence”.
by Tom | Dec 15, 2008 | Reading
The Hajj and Eid al-Adha. How many Christian ceremonies are celebrated in the same way across the world (here I’m thinking of the sacrificing goats, prayer for Eid)? Does the tolerance and inclusiveness of Christianity cause it to lose some cohesion when faced...
