by Tom | Aug 18, 2004 | Reading
An interesting examination of how you might wind up (and wind down) a jury and why the McDonalds coffee burns damages case was an abberation in McCoffee burns. Very lawyer-focused, but interesting nonetheless.
by Tom | Jul 31, 2004 | Reading
Boris Akunin from Wikipedia. Just read the first one and it’s very good. So why did they translate the first and then the third of his books and not the second yet?
by Tom | Jul 30, 2004 | Science
Amazing picture of the Northern Lights. I need to go see these one day.
by Tom | Jul 30, 2004 | Reading
Good Experience looks a the end of mainstream advertising for certain companies. As an example, Amazon does very little advertising, but spends the amount it might have to on advertising on continually extending the customer experience and value they deliver. As the...
by Tom | Jul 30, 2004 | Reading
It’s bad news for component and chip manufacturers because convergence is happening around cell phones, and they’re mostly given away. This isn’t the case for the iPod, for example, but must be true for simple digital cameras and mp3 players.
by Tom | Jul 30, 2004 | IT
Throwing Tables Out the Window shows that Microsoft could reduce its bandwidth costs by 329 Terabytes per year by using CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)-based layout. Amazing.
by Tom | Jul 30, 2004 | Science
Carrier pigeons tend to use man-made structures (was http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/2004/07/28.html#a919 marked bad) to navigate. Must have been much easier with Roman roads, no?
by Tom | Jul 30, 2004 | Business
Loads of great stuff about the visual representation of project tasks in Tufte’s forum. There are also some very useful project management tools and downloads available from Phil Wolff, and a PM class from Columbia university.
by Tom | Jul 29, 2004 | Reading
Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales has some BHAGs for Wikipedia:It is my intention to get a copy of Wikipedia to every single person on the planet in their own language. It is my intention that free textbooks from our wikibooks project will be used to revolutionize...
by Tom | Jul 29, 2004 | Reading
Time looks at companies using internal markets to generate forecasts. The title is a bit misleading – by no means is it the end of management or hierarchies. It’s along the same lines as the Pentagon’s proposed trading market in terrorism. I like the...
