ESPN.com – POKER – The ethics of backing players Poker players can pay each others’ entry fees, then have them collude to help them win later (via the freakonomics blog) (tags: poker gaming gambling ethics freakonomics) SitePoint Blogs » Simple Clearing of Floats Ran into this just the other day. handy. (tags: css tips layout) …
Yearly Archives: 2005
The Genealogy of Math
I’ve never seen The Mathematics Genealogy Project until just now. It’s pretty incredible, covering the professional history of almost 100,000 mathematicians. I did some searches on the math PhDs I know and they were all there. The math greats are there and they even offer posters of anyone’s entire genealogy. I love magnificent obsessions like …
Advice
As I’ve gotten older, I’ve noticed that I’m increasingly coming back around to old cliches and sayings — stuff grandparents and parents and parents of friends’ would tell me back when I was 15 and I never believed a word of it. Some of it is profound, life-changing stuff that I ignored all those years …
Pave the Planet
I’m impressed with Google Earth. I hadn’t totally got what was cool about it until I built my first Google Earth app earlier today. The documentation is pretty slight (it’d be nice if they simply broke down which elements are required and which ones are optional) but they have a good demo file you can …
Ten Years
In spring of 1995, while using a borrowed computer (I didn’t own one myself) in the undergraduate lab, I noticed a new icon in the main window. It was a blue globe with a snake-like S shape around it. It was labeled Mosaic. It was an early version and you couldn’t type addresses in the …
Most Improved, 2005
This is a long time coming, but I’ve really been enjoying Jalopnik the past few months. When Jalopnik and Autoblog and others like it launched, I was disappointed that these new car blogs were so boring. Cars are one of the most universal of hobbies, and you’d think it’s easy to find someone nuts about …
links for 2005-12-26
Feed Icons – Help establish the new standard Reminder to self: swap these out for those ugly xml buttons (tags: rss feeds usability)
Yule Log
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links for 2005-12-24
ShowOfHands_526x381.jpg (JPEG Image, 526×381 pixels) ouch (tags: bush politics comics) Double Feature Finder Want to buy one ticket, and see loads of back-to-back movies? Use this tool to see what plays back to back in your local theaters (tags: mefiprojects movies applications) Jonathan Coulton » Blog Archive » Thing a Week 14 – Flickr A …
You learn something new everyday
Let’s say you take a trip out to your mailbox a few hundred yards away, and you know there are big packages in the box, and it’s a downpour. So you grab an umbrella (knowing that true Oregonians never use umbrellas, but you make an exception for the sake of dry christmas presents). When you …
A Whole Lotta Nothing 