by Tom | Mar 23, 2006 | Reading
Some nice examples of bad charts and how to fix them. The latter is particularly useful, although I don’t always agree with the solutions. But ain’t that the way of the world?
by Tom | Mar 23, 2006 | Science
Why so bad? They haven’t had a chance by the time PR gets to them.
by Tom | Mar 22, 2006 | Personal
Not quite, but Google maps just got even closer in. You can see the steps in our garden.51 Parolles on Google MapsThe one for Gina’s house shows the age of the shots: it’s before the Tilly memorial pagoda and still with the Peugeot. Such fun. Can’t...
by Tom | Mar 22, 2006 | Personal
Amazon has worked out a way to open up its storage systems to you (at a cost). Looks very interesting for backup, storage of stuff you care about. My entire system stored there would cost me $1.50/month in storage and $1.00/month in traffic costs. Seems quite...
by Tom | Mar 21, 2006 | Reading
I need to know more about action research. So here’s an online source. However, it doesn’t feel particularly different to what we do. Hmmm.
by Tom | Feb 28, 2006 | Reading
Mind Hacks links to discussion of eBay auction silliness. In trials, people prefer to pay $5+$6 shiping for a CD than $10 for a CD with free shipping. It was a controlled trial:multiple auctions with different price-postage ratios revealed a net preference for low...
by Tom | Feb 28, 2006 | Science
Cosmic Variance has a lovely explanation of how the quantum interrogation aspect of counterfactual computation might work. So I’ve moved on from last week.
by Tom | Feb 28, 2006 | Reading
Nice organising principles for Wikipedia entries.
by Tom | Feb 27, 2006 | Reading
Democracy TV looks like a nice integration of Bittorrent and RSS to get channels to you for watching when you want. On the other side of the media, FluidEffect has a useful before/after feature in its portfolio to show you quite how much photoshopping we don’t...
by Tom | Feb 27, 2006 | IT
It has to be said that the default Mac desktop + Dock + menu bar with addins + some downloads you haven’t yet removed from your desktop is pretty busy. Here are some nice tips from 43 Folders plus others on how to unclutter. Full screen mode + dock hiding really...
