Do No Evil
Stephen Colbert: All men are sinners.
Eric Schmidt: [Google's] a company.
Stephen Colbert: Companies are legally people; welcome to America.
What does it say when your church has an org chart? At least they got the upper-level management right.
Geography of a Recession →
'Cause a picture's worth a thousand words: a great visualization of the statistics of unemployment.
Totally not true. Java's far superior to Perl. And I think everyone who knows Perl views believes themselves as superior to everyone.
(via fuckyeahcomputerscience)
Are Two Heads Better Than One? Sometimes... →
Not only should partners be equally adept, they must also be able to communicate freely before making a decision.This makes intuitive sense - when working together in a group, you naturally gravitate to people at the same skill level to balance the workload, and apparently, optimize the decision-making process.
Firefly is the best-selling and top-rated Blu-Ray movie on Amazon.com. Great decision, Fox.
Alex Payne — The Very Last Thing I'll Write About Twitter →
Interesting thought about the difference between Twitter as a form of communication and Twitter as a business from an ex-employee.
The Look That Says Book →
Automatic hyphenation in justified text using Javascript.
Gamers Make Faster Decisions With as Much Accuracy →
The authors of the study argue that the root of all these tasks involves making a probabilistic inference, where complete information is missing, so people have to make a best guess based on known odds. Video gaming, in their view, increases the efficiency at which people can process the odds and make an accurate decision—gamers simply can do more with less.An interesting benefit of technology on cognitive function.
Technology Leads More Park Visitors Into Trouble →
Why would you want your cellphone to work in the middle of a National Park? That just defeats the purpose. Technology can't save us from ourselves.