February 26, 2006 – 2:32 am
Two really cool dice puzzles that have already been solved to death by bored mathematicians: Nontransitive dice Number three blank dice such that one of the dice (say die A) beats another of the dice (die B) more than half of the time, which in turn beats die C more than half of the time. [...]
February 17, 2006 – 10:37 pm
Visit http://www.honda.co.uk/civic/ Click "Watch Civic". Enjoy.
February 17, 2006 – 12:51 am
Absolutely stunning Sergey quote from ex-Google brand manager Doug Edwards on his xooglers blog: Sergey once asked a large assemblage of Googlers what our greatest corporate expense was. “Health insurance!” was one answer shouted back. “Salaries!” “Servers!” “Taxes!” “Electricity!” “Charlie’s grocery bills!,” came back others. “No,” said Sergey. “Opportunity cost.” He explained that the products [...]
February 10, 2006 – 1:56 am
Tonight, I got an invitation to sign up on some website called http://www.officeballot.com. The premise is very simple: you sign up using a work email address and then get to rate your co-workers and provide written comments (good or bad) on them. It claims to promote meritocracy. I, frankly, can’t believe that there’s any possible [...]
February 3, 2006 – 1:46 am
Tonight’s "My Name Is Earl" yielded a brilliant quote that I feel certain to be able to use someday: I don’t vote, I already have a religion, and I hate whales. Now, technically speaking, not all of those are true, but I figure it’ll stun the person on the other side of my screen door [...]