Category: General

I love the idea of something like RSSContact.com, but I don’t think anybody I know is geek enough to actually subscribe to whatever contact channel I might create. Hell, I’m not even geek enough to subscribe to somebody else’s channel. It’s like PGP for e-mail. I’d love to use it, but I can’t for reasons…

Wow, just pushing the red button made me feel uncomfortable (like I was responsible for starting it or something). The map though is a very effective visualization that for me at least really seems to personalize all the statistics: Iraq War Fatalities is a chart of US and coalition military fatalities that have occurred in…

The Blue Eyes Brown Eyes Exercise is a very interesting exploration of racism, but I don’t entirely believe everything (and not just because as we all know it’s the people with blue eyes who are superior). Dyslexic kids suddenly gaining markedly improved reading skills because of a one day change of expectations? Adults, who have…

Marshall Brain’s presentation to Duke University students, How to Make a Million Dollars is surprisingly good. Now, if I could just think of an idea so I can start swimming in that pool.

Entries have been kind of sparse around these parts lately. They’re probably going to get even sparser over the next few weeks. But, check back in June. There should be some entries in June.

When it comes to pennies, this guy’s quite the engineer. He says he was trying to avoid studying, but holy crap this guy must have wasted a lot of time building those structures.

Being the vain sort, I sometimes run a vanity search on Google for “will raleigh”. “Will” being a stopper word for Google, I need to use the quotes to get the search to produce decent results, and even then most of the hits are questions with “will” as a verb like: Will Raleigh go to…

There’s something really strange about Inc.com’s profile of Keith Ferrazzi, The 10 Secrets of a Master Networker. It’s like there’s a pendulum swinging the the story and it alternates between being incredibly interesting and potentially useful one minute followed up by sounding a lot like my own personal hell the next. It goes back and…

Dang it all! I finally get around to fixing that toilet that keeps periodically turning itself on, and it turns out I fixed the wrong thing. Let this be a lesson to you. You can’t trust the helpful little diagnostic diagrams they have at the home depot. I think I actually made it worse. Bah!

OK, I’m posting The Commonly Confused Words Test because it played directly into my vanity calling me a genius and heaping praise upon praise onto me. But, I’m a little tweaked that it says I missed a few and then doesn’t tell me what it thinks I missed (or why it thinks I’m wrong). What…