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+
Add save to Pinboard in Google Reader.Pinboard (http://pinboard.in) is brilliant, and well worth the subscription to keep a copy of articles you find useful. Google Reader is also my preferred news reader thanks to the range of things I can plug in to it. Adding...
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...
by Tom | Jan 10, 2012 | Google+
Non-libertarian FAQ.Lots of useful summaries and links to data on things like trickle down job creation and the effect of high tax rates. You don't have to love all the arguments, but they are worth a read.Thanks to Chris Carr for the link. Why I Hate Your...
by Tom | Jan 10, 2012 | Google+
McKinsey on dealing with natural resources. Now that most natural resources are wrapped up by speculators, improving resource productivity has to be of importance to all of us. A useful article looks at what we can do to have a direct impact in a short time frame. The...
by Tom | Jan 10, 2012 | Google+
Hope in near future energy technologies.These will gladden Kurzweil's day: there are potentially transformational energy technologies close to market. Let's hope they all work: just imagine the savings for Hong Kong in improved air conditioning and smart...
by Tom | Jan 9, 2012 | Google+
Strategy and opposites. Nice idea: when you have formulated your strategy, consider its opposite. If it sounds ridiculous or vacuous, try again. Example: "delight our customers" vs "make our customers hate us". A simple test for your strategic...
