All in random fun
My friend Girl Detective is from the Midwest and her lack of accent gives her away. Me too. This quiz asks 19 questions about how you pronounce various words in relation to one another.
I've always been entertained by Ze Frank's video postcards, but I was never a regular. For the March 13th show, he assembled a series of 15-seconds-or-less videos from his fans. Most are "thanks for the show," and there are a number that are quite touching. Communities need a rallying point -...
Among other things, editing Wikipedia entries is apparently a soft addiction.
Two funny things came across the aggregator today. The first is Mukund Mohan's tongue-in-cheek interview from the future, and the second is Valdis Krebs' find of a web gizmo that brings that future closer than I thought.
What programming language are you? I am Smalltalk. This is yet another quiz running around the network. Not nearly as entertaining as "which superhero are you?"
Happy New Year, everyone. I hope 2007 brings you joy and satisfaction in your lives!
I've been tagged by Jim. I was wondering if this game would wend my way (both hoping it would and dreading it). So, here are five things people may not know about me.
Forbes doesn't just tell you how rich people like Gates and The Queen are, they also give important information, such as their annual Fictional 15 list of the 15 richest fictional characters.
More fun for Friday. Soy Latte? I guess these quizzes don't always get it right.
I appear to be 75% like Spider-Man. He was one of my favorites growing up. It probably helped to have three or four Spider-Man comics every month.
Knowledge retention is an important issue in business these days. This month's K Street Directions tells us about a story from NPR on Raiders of the Lost Tapes, where the knowledge is tapes of the Apollo moon landing.
I just rediscovered this ride report from my friend Barry Reich. Several of us went on the 1994 Pennsylvania Dutch MS150 together. Barry recounts the fun and the misery with brevity and wit.
The cappuccino conquests is a research program about the spread of Italian coffee, particularly espresso drinks, in the last 50 years.
Cognitive Daily asks, "How come my stats class wasn't this exciting?" This one has been making the rounds, but in case you haven't seen it and need some laughs.
In case you have been wondering what the video-sharing service, YouTube, is about, this should give you the idea.
The New Scientist Breaking News provides this one: "Drinking coffee makes you more open-minded." The research shows that caffeeine makes people more likely to change their mind when presented with contrary arguments.
Frank Patrick reminds us that there will be some fun numbers coming up. Wait until the 4th of May if you live outside the United States.
An entertaining manifesto from by Tony Dratz, "Technologist Manifesto..., or Things Everyone in IT Should Know." He lists a dozen items that are either "to do" or "not to do" with respect to IT projects.