2005

Cognitive daily.

Are rich kids more troubled than poor kids?
How do we decide what we’re seeing?
What else are we doing when we watch a movie?
What are we doing when we watch a movie? etc.

The long tail of software.

The most interesting statistic however, was that while the top 10 searches were thousands of times more popular than the average search, these top-10 searches represented only 3% of our total volume. 97% of our traffic came from the long tail: queries asked a little over once a day.

Search is a long tail business and that is the source of its power and profit. Read Chris Anderson’s Wired article

Telecom Italia’s Gandhi ad.

17-year old Panna Felsen defeats 3 robots in arm-wrestling. The slashdot comments are hilarious.

Harvard rejects applicants using hacker services.

Stand clear of closing doors.

Ever wonder what the London Underground Map would look like if it were geographically accurate?

Kids with cameras. Give cameras to kids. Train them a bit. See what they see.

Every number is special. Here’s what’s special about the first 10,000 numbers (almost). For instance, “8281 is the only 4-digit square whose two 2-digit pairs are consecutive.” And “5851 is the only prime so that it, its square, and its cube all have the same sum of digits.”