July 2009
59 posts
Official Gmail Blog: Send mail from another... →
Finally! Unfortunately I’ve already consolidated my collection of previously segmented (based on priority ;) email addresses. Shrug. At least it’s supposed to automagically work for Google Apps domains, which is exactly my use case.
“What exactly justifies making SMS messages sixty one million times more...”
– The True Price of SMS Messages | A GThing Science Project
“Next, “paw-swipe” left or right to open up the application switcher (the...”
– Mastering the MacBook’s Trackpad - Gadgetwise Blog - NYTimes.com
I didn’t know the second half of this.
mliaverage:
Today, on Facebook I finally decided to IM a girl that I like. When I was about to press send, she signed off. I felt like it was the computer telling me that she was out of my league. MLIA
Haha.
Singapore influenza forecast →
A mathematical model (hehe) of the flu by some NUS stats people. The caveats are pretty standard (and comprehensive)..
“We know from research that logical arguments only play a small role in changing...”
The Singapore Vault →
Phew. What a lengthy ‘disclaimer’.. wrapped up in so much weaselese.
“You do not work for law enforcement and you are not accessing this material to use against the site operator, or any person whomsoever, in any conceivable manner.”
“Throughout most of Chinese history, anybody could produce salt, but they had to...”
– Language Log » Monopsony
“Omit needless words”
– Strunk & White The Elements of Style (1979)
“SIN – In one of the most massive steps taken by the government since introducing...”
– coo coo kachoo « it’s mooty
“The comments on other sites when they link to things I’ve written should give...”
– Marco
“We are a group of students from National Junior College, Singapore, embarking on...”
– someone who likes writing rather long run-on sentences that say nothing.
“As long as I’m in the present, I have a future. Why should I give a damn...”
“Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just don’t have film.”
– Stephen Wright (via simko)
the perfect sorbet melting in my consciousness now it is time two.
“Ericsson’s primary finding is that rather than mere experience or even raw...”
– The Science of Experience - TIME
“if SLAs were insurance policies, vendors would quickly be out of business.”
– bb: 15jul2009
We Eat
ndoo:
If the food is good, we eat in a small group. If the food is bad, we eat in large groups.
Food is not to be consummated consumed alone.
Spending Money on Others Promotes Happiness →
Although much research has examined the effect of income onhappiness, we suggest that how people spend their money maybe at least as important as how much money they earn. Specifically,we hypothesized that spending money on other people may havea more positive impact on happiness than spending money on oneself.Providing converging evidence for this hypothesis, we foundthat spending more of...
layoutnetworks speaks
Twitter / layoutnetworks: 我在上海得到
我在上海得到最多应县的是我们在“爱之家(Home Sweet Home)“的耐几天。我真地感受到他们表现给我们的爱。看到他们这么冲马奶，我心里仍然被感动。如果还有自毁，我一定要飞去上海多一次，在和他们过一个礼拜。
Hmm.
我在上海得到最多印象的是我们在“爱之家(Home Sweet Home)”的那几天。我真的感受到他们表现给我们的爱。看到他们这么充满爱，我心里仍然被感动。如果还有机会，我一定要飞去上海多一次，再和他们过一个礼拜。
Internet Infrastructure
dailymeh:
Imagine a hollow planet. It has a very limited usable surface area, but has huge spaces underground. Anyone can build as much as they want underground, but to connect with others who aren’t part of your underground complex, you need to build on the surface, which has very few usable plots of land. Imagine if one central entity controlled both the allocation of surface land and the maps...
“Defendant admits that it is the owner and holder of a mortgage encumbering the...”
– Al Lewis: Wells Fargo Bank Sues Itself - FOXBusiness.com
“If there’s enough inflation you can have a birthday party.”
– DS
We wrote stuff for ToK today. I think I successfully amused myself.
It is a classroom, a cold one, white, grey, nearly clinical but for the lack of metal implements and surfaces – supplanted instead by scratched, dirty grey plastic and the occasional blue and green. A splash of yellow and white resides in one dark, light green [sic] corner of the classroom. In disorderly rows the tables and...
“I assert that to teach is to prescribe and enforce a course of action which...”
– Findings: No Good Teachers? (Part 2)
I think if I manage to find my johari/nohari window of years past, it will be very alien to me.
“Time’s up,” said the sergeant. “You’ve failed.”...”
– Uncle Edna’s: Because We Really Need It in the Future
“The raison d’etre of the natural-language interface, stated baldly, is to...”
– Unqualified Reservations: Wolfram Alpha and hubristic user interfaces
Livers
Q: What exactly is a partial liver transplant? Did you only replace a part of the liver?
A: No, it's where you get to the part where you take the old one out, but don't bother to finish.
“i think that the older i get the less i feel. is that strange?”
– aiahp
“Within a game theory-like approach, we explore different promotion strategies...”
– arXiv.org: [0907.0455] The Peter Principle Revisited: A Computational Study (open access)
WatchMichael Lewis: The Man Who Crashed The World (Vanity Fair, August 2009)
Almost a year after AIG’s collapse, despite a tidal wave of outrage, there still has been no clear explanation of what toppled the insurance giant. MICHAEL LEWIS decides to ask the people involved—the silent, shell-shocked traders of the AIG Financial Products unit—and finds that the story may have a villain, whose...