Year: 2004

Comic Central offers comics downloads via eMule. This includes an Asterix collection (which is best read annotated.

FBI Guide to Investigation Guide of Concealable Weapons. Check out the throwing cards.

These cards are regular sized, but they are all metal and edged on all sides, designed to be thrown at a target.

Some interesting material on complexity that I found when hunting through the web.

What if…
Wired: 12 principles of the networked world
Trojan Mice: What are complex adaptive systems?

Excellent article by a Microsoft cognitive psychologist on how we recognise words.

We recognize a word’s component letters simultaneously, then use that visual information to recognize a word.

Southwest Airline’s effort to be humourous.

Southwest … have [my business] because of low fares, and force-marching their employees through comic routines will do little to affect my choice of carrier. They are, however, wasting their “research” dollars and undoubtedly humiliating their employees. I suggest they stop.

While the phrases themselves were well-crafted specimens of humor, delivered with carefully practiced inflection of the voice, the eyes of the pressganged comedians were cold and dead.

Outsource your own job. A programmer outsourced his job to an Indian programmer. Salary arbitrage: $67,000 – $12,000 = $55,000. He’s planning to get another job and do this again. (It’s probably not true, though)

Watson and Crick’s original paper on DNA in Nature magazine.

It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.

Alternate exchanges: Hollywood Stock Exchange, Innovation futures, Blogshares. These exchanges are supposed to be remarkably accurate in predictions.

Google games

MIT’s Social Media Group