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  • Review: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

    January 12, 2012
    Books / Novels / Writing

    Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire My review: 2 of 5 stars It was okay. The book seemed more about the philosophy of religion and politics and their intermixing than I expected and without a clear point. It was more Xenocide than Ender’s game. Scarily, the…

  • Prettier hair and hats

    January 12, 2012
    Internet

    Everyone should take a few minutes (meaning a few hours once you get sucked in) and take a look at Quora. The concept of the site is to use crowdsourcing for answers to questions. Questions are asked of the community. People choose to answer. For example, someone asked: “Why did people wear more hats in the…

  • Precise Shock Therapy

    January 11, 2012
    Psychology

    Consider this Cyborg Stephen Hawking Part II. Our understanding of the brain is so very underwhelming. Ran across an interesting article: Brain electrodes fix depression long term. Deep depression that fails to respond to any other form of therapy can be moderated or reversed by stimulation of areas deep inside the brain. Now the first placebo-controlled…

  • Cyborg Stephen Hawking

    January 10, 2012
    Build / Engineering, Psychology

    Stephen Hawking missed his 70th birthday party this past weekend. He was not feeling well. There has been quite a bit floating around the Internet about how he as survived decades after getting an estimated months to live. Even Intel talked up how they are working on a way to help him speak faster. Speaking…

  • Flickr: Most Interesting 2011

    January 9, 2012
    Photography

    David Wilkinson has a cool tool I like called Flickr Set Manager. It daily looks at my photos and updates several sets of my photos. One is my most interesting 120 photos. The others are the most interesting 30 photos for each year. Below is a slideshow for 2011.

  • No Comment

    January 7, 2012
    Uncategorized

    No CommentOriginally uploaded by Ezra S F Via Flickr:/* */ is syntax for a comment. So it is a comment of No Comment.

  • Read Later Shotgun

    January 6, 2012
    Browsers, RSS / Blogs, Usability / Accessibility

    Back in my Netscape 3 days, my bookmark.html was incompletely saved losing about 2/3rds of the file. Researching how to fix it revealed to me the file was just an HTML file. My new editing skills could not recover it, but I could make a new copy and fix individual entry losses. Making a copy…

  • To Blog or to Share?

    January 4, 2012
    Blog Software

    This blog has suffered from my sharing on social media. Where I used to post every day, even just one liners to go check out a web site or a story, that activity is now all on Facebook, Twitter, Google+. HackEducation does a weekly post of news. I am thinking about doing something similar for…

  • Some Stats

    January 3, 2012
    Metrics / Statistics

    According to Google Analytics, between Jan 1 to Dec 31, 2011 this blog saw: 146,718 Unique Visitors 208,520 Pageview 174,104 for Quotes to Make You Think Sources: 138,144 Google 20,055 No referrer (application like desktop email? Twitter?) 8,445 Bing … 843 Facebook … 68 Twitter These could be somewhat under reported depending on the rates by…

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