November 2004

The Gigapixel project. Incredibly high resolution photography.

Google Scholar lets you search academic references (journals, papers, etc).

Fight Club - Calvin and Hobbes? A discussion on how the movie The Fight Club is really Calvin and Hobbes in disguise. Read only if you like Calvin and Hobbes, and have seen the movie.

Wal Mart mines 460 terabytes of data.

Jeff Duntemann argues that the reason for security problems is C/C++, not Microsoft.

20 Reasons Why you shouldn’t post your picture on the internet.

What really happens when you Format C:.

Malcolm Gladwell on drug prices in the US. AstraZeneca twenty-six billion dollars on Prilosec. The patent was due to expire. AstraZeneca decided on a subtle piece of chemical reengineering, creating a single isomer version. The new drug was called Nexium. The F.D.A. gave its blessing, and Nexium hit the pharmacy shelves priced at a hundred and twenty dollars for a month’s worth of pills. But the article goes on to show that the US drug industry isn’t necessarily overpriced.

Jugglezine: How to find the time to do anything (not everything!) On a purely practical level, however, the reason we can’t find time for that one thing we’ve always wanted to do is that we don’t set aside time for it. Logging how much time things take for two weeks will transform you, because if you know and acknowledge in advance how long something will take, then you can make wise decisions about where to spend your time ...

Jared dresses up in an iPod costume and wins.