The Charles at sunset:
Ice Desert
Month: February 2011
The Original Venn Diagram
Panowhat?
A 24 hour view of the sky in Athens: Via Chris Blattman via Kottke.
No, Shut Up
This is dead on. Via Ezra Klein, the following answer was provided on Quora in response to this question: Why is Dropbox so popular? Well, let’s take a step back and think about the sync problem and what the ideal solution for it would do: There would be a folder. You’d put your stuff in it. It would sync. They built that. Why didn’t anyone else build that? I have no idea. “But,” you may ask, “so much more you could do! What about task management, calendaring, customized dashboards, virtual white boarding. More than just folders and files!” No, shut up. People don’t use that crap. They just want a folder. A folder that syncs. “But,” you may say, “this is
The Framing of News
I wanted to check out the latest from Egypt this evening, so I first went to the BBC: Then I went to Al Jazeera: From the headlines alone, you’d think he gave two different speeches. I won’t read too far into it, and the articles reported much of the same information with varying emphasis, but it seems the BBC is quick to report a victory on behalf of the protesters, while Al Jazeera is implying the protests must will go on. Take another look at the two pictures of Mubarak.
States and Stuff
Via Colin Whooten, The Economist compares country GDPs with individual US states: I wouldn’t have expected Saudi Arabia to be comparable to Massachusetts. Texas and Russia feels about right.