21-Aug-2009

Number of View: 98

How to sell a startup – how to get buyers interested – selling a startup – strategy – Link.

How to make saving as exciting as spending – have a goal in mind – track your progress – Link.

19-Aug-2009

Number of View: 77

23 Badly planned internet ad placements – humor – ads placed next to contrasting published pieces – Link.

The math of gambling – casino – how a deep faith in probability theory and maths can get you rewards in gambling – New Scientist. Link.

9 keys to the perfect corporate blog – what makes a blog compelling? – Link.

10 Vital lessons for web start-ups – Link - from customer support to license management.

A consumer starts invoicing brands for the time he spends on them – makes one stop and think – Link. – Keywords – Crudden – Six weeks.

18-Aug-2009

Number of View: 290

Lyved – 7 ways to change your life in the next 7 days – Self Improvement- Link.

Project Cartoon – How Projects really work – humorous cartoon strip – how customer wanted it, and how different stakeholders delivered the project. Link.

Qualify Your Buyer – from n plus 1 Mag – an interesting read about Millionaire match. Link.

HolyTaco – a flow chart to determine if you should get divorced – Link – a handy flowchart to determine whether or not  you are going to have sex at the end of your date. – Link.

Locklin on science – interesting read – icons of engineering quality – with pictures of calculators.

16-Aug-2009

Number of View: 150

Academic writing – Citing papers that you’ve never read or were never written.

Higher Up and Further In – How to get children to appreciate great art – Picture studies – paintings.

Salon: America is not a christian nation.

Lisa Blonder draws a picture with her left hand, right hand, left foot, and right foot. Plus another attempt from 2004.

According to Google Maps, it’s 3 hours and 59 minutes from Intercourse to Climax.

Whats your best programmer joke? – from Stack Overflow.

Iowa State Fair – 10 Sculptures made of butter – Mental Floss mag.

Recession-Proof Graduate - Charlie Hoehn’s Guide to getting any job within a year of finishing college.

Can a  computer become a vase? Drop GCSEs – we should be teaching our children to think.

BBC – moderate drinking ‘boosts bones’.

15-Aug-2009

Number of View: 240

The Linguistic Fun page – from Ojohaven.

Tips, ideas, know-how for small biz and home biz owners. Enterprise Quest.

Hard earned lessons about what not to do – write a long business plan.

The Contrarian – On the metaphysics of teleportation. (Excerpt – to build a working teleportation machine, all you really need to do is…)

SQL Pie Chart – Interesting – how would you create a Pie chart using SQL alone? (with suitable data of course)

6 Intriguely Shaped Communities on Google Maps - with aerial pics.

Yahoo Shine relationships – 5 Things You dont need to have in common.

Only 32% of the US general public believes that humans evolved by natural processes.

14-Aug-2009

Number of View: 266

From MIT Technology Review – explaining why we have yet to spot extraterrestrials.

Technical Lead – 36 steps to success as a technical lead.

How the brain hard-wires us into loving Google, twitter and texting – and why that is dangerous – from Slate mag.

Everything we know about babies can be wrong – from Book – Philosophical Baby.

Science – so what – so everything.

Some say we retain less information as we read more and more – especially on the Internet – Digital text and human brain.

Going to college and not finding the time to get good food – 50 amazing ramen noodles recipes. And on the topic of college, hackCollege – how to get your textbooks for free (many comments worth reading). Lifehacker – get your textbooks for free.

How to be a successful Jerry Springer Guest – a four page compendium(interesting account)

The View from Harvard Business – 5 Personal core competencies for the 21st century.

A guide to derailing awkward conversations by trivialising your opposition’s perspective. On the same topic – ForeverGeek – 38 ways to win an argument.

13-Aug-2009

Number of View: 81

Humanity hardwired – half the world eats too much, the other half has too many babies.

Geeky Graffiti Sightings from Smoont.

Mobile Augmented Reality Browser – Layar allows you to see what is around you by displaying digital info on top of reality via the camera of your mobile. (More on augmented reality with a nice video about Layar here)

Acrossair augmented reality – restaurant, entertainment listings.

Mingle2 Blog – 9 reasons not to date a t-rex.

SolutionWatch - 50 ways to take notes. Lifehacker – Five ways to boost your note-taking.

Writeup/Pictures from a Swedish underground data center.

12-Aug-2009

Number of View: 125

‘Inspired by Science’ T-shirts! (A huge collection)

What do ‘wallet neuropathy’ ‘thumbprinty’ ‘frequency illusion’ have in common? They are new words coined by journalists and writers – so here’s a word-lover’s guide to  new words.

Signs that contain spelling errors – captured with a handy cam.

The article says articles, things, items, stuff, merchandise, and goods from dollar stores are good, normal, and so on.

Nerd Business – Wanna plunk down a few thousand dollars in a super-grade home office setup? 96 pics which can give a mental trigger as to how your home office can be up also.

Chris Spooner’s guide to how to create a lifestream of your online activities.

GlobalEdge – a business knowledge portal from Michigan State Univ that covers everything about international business (or so it seems).

Mapping relations – measuring influence – between people and organizations – Muckety.