Rank Candidates
November 18, 2011 –Inspiration comes in many forms, and most recently, as the following carrot, dangled in front of my face by fellow blogger Burrito Justice:
MORE →
Viz The Seasons
November 16, 2011 –Watch daylight ebb and flow, fog linger and break, and storms bluster and clear in Ken Murphy’s wonderful A History Of The Sky: a calendar-style time-lapse chronicle of the heavens above San Francisco.
MORE →
One To Many To One
November 2, 2011 –Rarely is something so squarely up my alley as DARPA’s Shredder Challenge. Simply download five shredded documents, reassemble the puzzles within, submit your answers, and claim a share of the $50,000 prize.
MORE →
Playing The Probabilities
October 26, 2011 –Daddy needs a new pair of shoes. So, it’s off to Vegas… to win, baby! There, I’ll saunter up to a “twenty one” table, exchange a few hundred for chips, and pit my blackjack fu against the casino.
MORE →
My God, It’s Full Of Blocks
October 3, 2011 –Here’s a “behind the scenes” image that might strike you as interesting, eye candy, or perhaps both, depending upon your particular inclination and intimate knowledge of online map tiles:
MORE →
British Isles And Golden Arches
September 14, 2011 –My inbox hums with feedback: warm fuzzies, cold pricklies, and scads of blunt similitudes from across the pond that read something like this:
MORE →
Storing Your Value
July 26, 2011 –Suppose that you snapped. It might have been the blood-red 401k statement that arrived in yesterday’s mail. Or that last year, you paid your broker $10,000 to lose $100,000. Or, perhaps, that while everyone else, by government largesse, refinanced houses, replaced clunkers, and recouped bad investments, you received nothing!
MORE →
It Flows Downhill
May 24, 2011 –The nondescript lowlands surrounding the Old River Control Structure – the complex of levees, dams, floodgates, and spillways designed to prevent the great Mississippi River from changing course into the Atchafalaya – belie a fascinating history of man subjugating nature and nature’s inevitable payback.
MORE →