November 2009
40 posts
List of unusual deaths →
via @zambonini
YC-Funded WakeMate Helps You Kiss Groggy Mornings... →
Ah, the curse of the groggy morning. You may have followed all the rules: no caffeine before bed, an early bedtime, and all the rest. But your best efforts are oftentimes for naught, foiled by…
“I am in the situation where people who recognize me and meet me briefly will...”
– Derren Brown, Tricks of the Mind
SkiFree →
Tom Gauld - noisy alphabet →
via http://www.tomgauld.com/index.php?/portfolio/noisy-alphabet/
Daisy Chain Knots Resize or Store Spare Cords... →
Whether you’ve got a 10-foot cord that only needs to stretch one foot or you simply want to store your cords without worrying about opening your closet to a knotted mess, daisy-chaining…
Reasons to move to south Wales (well, Cardiff) →
How To Cook A Fucking Steak
Go to the goddamn grocery and get steak. Yes, the grocery. A little ammonia is not going to kill you, you pussy. You want to be all fancy and grass-fed and environmentally conscious, go ahead, I don’t give a shit, just get a fucking steak. Ribeye is good. And, yes, bone-in. Schmuck. Take the steak home. Get a bigass frying pan and put the shit on the stove, cranking the heat up as far as...
best of craigslist: a cartoon for all the girls i... →
Cost of happiness discovered by Australian... →
calculated a formula he claims delivers the monetary equivalent of the value of various milestones in life.
The figures represent a lump sum a person would need to receive out of the blue in order…
The Secret for People Who Don’t Believe in VooDoo →
Shared by Lloyd
Identify your goal. Make a written plan to acquire that goal. Work your plan persistently. Give it your time, attention and energy. The more time and effort you give, the…
Why Wine Ratings Are Badly Flawed - WSJ.com →
Shared by Lloyd
More on the psychology of wine from the WSJ. Including wine fraud and rating systems.
Studies say the wine-rating system is badly flawed. How the experts fare against a coin toss.
“When people feel threatened by another ethnic group, their reaction is usually...”
– Empire, Niall Ferguson
Mac Buyer's Guide: Know When to Buy Your Mac, iPod... →
Buy, Hold…Sell (?): by studying the product cycle you know when to buy Mac products, and when to wait.
This site summarises everything.
Nobody Wants to Read Your Shit →
Steven Pressfield shares his #1 lesson for anybody in the working world:
Nobody wants to read your shit.
He explains:
The market doesn’t know what you’re selling and doesn’t care. …
“It stopped being just a website a long time ago. For many of us, most of us,...”
– Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia, Support Wikipedia2/en - Wikimedia Foundation
November 10, 2009 →
Blllllaaaagh. I need to start writing earlier in the day…
Irregular Webcomic! #2475 →
A gerund in English is a noun formed from a verb by the addition of the ending -ing,
and possibly some subordinate qualifier words to form a noun phrase.
Well, that’s the gist of it…
The Rational Entrepreneur: How to Follow Through:... →
Suppose you have a set of normative standards that you would, long-term, like to adopt. A useful way to frame your odds of successful self-control is by the level to which you possess three…
November 09, 2009 →
Glarhghgh. Hi, Internet at 3am. I have comics and movies!
Logic Puzzle from Scientific American
Jack is looking at Anne, but Anne is looking at George. Jack is married, but George is not. Is a married person looking at an unmarried person?
A) Yes. B) No. C) Cannot be determined.
This is from this month’s Scientific American — article unfortunately costs money. It’s about “dysrationalia,” which is what happens when people with nominally high IQ’s end up thinking irrationally. […]
And the...
Seth's Blog: Take what you can get (?) →
“The gigs you take early will almost certainly impact the way your career looks later on. If you want to build a law practice in the music industry, you’ll need to take on musicians as clients, even…
LAND OF MY FATHER: JASPER REES ON WALES →
Jasper Rees is an Englishman with Welsh roots. After neglecting them for years, he decided it was time to explore them. So he drove right around Wales … From INTELLIGENT LIFE Magazine, Autumn…
Wed, Nov 04, 2009 @ 4:25:27pm →
I thirst! →
Open a Bottle of Wine with Your Shoe →
Got a bottle of wine on hand but no corkscrew to get it open? You can argue all you want about whether or not the guy in this video really needs more wine, but you can’t argue with the…
Movie Narrative Charts →
How To Use An Apostrophe - The Oatmeal →
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Ten things we don't understand about humans - New... →
Blushing, Laughter, Pubic Hair, Teenagers, Dreams, Altruism, Art, Superstition, Kissing and Nose-Picking. Ten things that don’t make evolutionary sense.
“[P]eople with an angrier temperament are more likely to think of themselves as...”
– BPS RESEARCH DIGEST: The surprising links between anger and time perception
“All former superpowers must deal with a world that is decidedly less impressed...”
– 418 – The Turkish-Islamic Empire « Strange Maps