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One of the many visualizations on IBMs “Many Eyes” site is this one: Percentage of people (by U.S. state) who call sugary carbonated beverages “Pop”, “Soda” and “Coke”. “Soda” has a pretty weird distribution. “Coke” is pretty clearly centralized in the South, and “Pop” in the North, but “Soda” is all over the place[ READ MORE ]
So this new blog experiment has been interesting so far. Outwardly, this is only post number three (not counting the mysterious blank post that appeared for a while before I caught it), but I’ve currently got seven drafts in progress, none of which are anywhere close to being postable. I’m discovering that going from “basic [ READ MORE ]
Raymond Chen’s blog provides an interesting mix of content. A good percentage of it is extremely detailed information on windows programming or examples of people doing stupid things with the Windows API; the remainder is often linked hilarity. Earlier this week he posted a link to these two EGM articles on kids’ reactions to playing [ READ MORE ]
I don’t really know where this blog is going, but I have to start somewhere, so this is it. This is my actually my second blog1; the first one got me through my university years and was basically a journal/announcement board, filled with random bits of my day, rants about whatever, or announcements/questions to the [ READ MORE ]