Shrewly not

So the shrew that drinks beer. Certainly, it is worth some study, but surely it isn’t unusual? If I read the numbers correctly, they “drink the equivalent to nine small glasses of wine, or four and half pints of beer” over 12 hours. And this is 3.8%,...

Streamfile

Nice idea for transferring large files: you can download while the file is still being uploaded. Not sure how it will deal with uploads / downloads that are abandoned mid way?

Operations research

Joel makes a good point in his latest column: your internal systems need to ensure that people can deliver effectively even on a bad day. There is a balance to be struck though: there has to be some flexibility on the ground so that staff can work directly with...

Punt off

Apparently punt saboteurs are causing problems in Cambridge. There are fewer bridges in Oxford, so it shouldn’t be such a problem.

Giles Coren on fire

As the climate changes and the economy contracts, its good to see that mankind can worry about the important things: that the removal of the letter “a” can ruin a joke about blow jobs.

Convincing people

Lots of good reading on changing people’s minds; the value of free as a marketing tool and a classic of advertising lore from nineteenth century research.

Kronomy

Make time-based slideshows of “lives”. Seems like a blip, to me.