Monthly Archives: November 2010
The French revolution…
So one country has a plan of action, the other has hidden from reality. The results are predictable…
“They have taken divergent paths since the World Cup, France making a clean break with the past by installing Laurent Blanc and England sticking with Fabio Capello in the hope he could divine the lessons of Bloemfontein. Blanc dispensed with all but one of his backroom staff and hired a psychologist to improve team harmony, whereas Capello’s only concession to change was a promise to employ another English coach who has yet to emerge.”
The French revolution is working, England’s is a work in progress | Football | The Guardian
French Music…
“Basing your view of French music on Johnny Hallyday is a bit like the French viewing English music in terms of Cliff Richard’s Millennium Prayer”
Hard-Coding Bias in Google…
Hard-Coding Bias in Google “Algorithmic” Search Results
This is very interesting. It seems that they’re playing with the figures more than I ever imagined.
The comma trick is great; I’ll remember that.
Nice design…
How Lincoln Won…
I’d not realized how split the nation was before the civil war…
Fonzie Jumps the Shark…
Yes, you read that right…
YouTube – Fonzie Jumps the Shark
It’s interesting that this moment in this series became such a symbol.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_the_shark
It also shows that everything is relative. The show was a massive hit after this program but it no longer mattered. A bit like how companies can continue to be massive successes but don’t seem to matter whatever they do.
America’s First Commercial Spaceship Factory…
Construction Begins on America’s First Commercial Spaceship Factory | Popular Science
America’s first? There’s another one somewhere else? Where?
I wonder if this is the River Rouge of our time?
1.0 Is the Loneliest Number…
1.0 Is the Loneliest Number — Matt Mullenweg
The big different at Apple is that they don’t put Beta on a service. They ship it without the features and wait for version 2.
The iPad is a long way from finished.
In the dark…
“Vettel did not even know he had won the title until after he had taken the chequered flag. “To be honest I did not know anything. I wondered. In the last 10 laps my engineer Rocky [Guillaume Rocquelin] was giving me advice to help me get the car home. I wondered why he was so nervous. I thought we must be in a good position, then he said ‘it’s looking good’, I didn’t know what he meant. I just focused on myself and they came on the radio and screamed that we have won the world championship.”
Red Bull keep Sebastian Vettel in the dark until the title is his | Sport | The Guardian