Here is another product of that mathematically-induced insomnia session, the other night.
I was practicing some sheep-multiplication-tables in my head in an effort to fall asleep and got to the number 54 which for whatever reason triggered this image for me of the number 18, i.e., what it might “look” like.. a kind of composite mathematical topography. The image [...]
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You know you have insomnia when trying to count sheep doesn’t work, and trying to multiply sheep makes you wonder why we don’t use a base-12 or base-6 numbering system, and then you have the urge to open your computer and lay these numbers out on a grid…
I’m not a math nerd or anything, but [...]
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Summer is coming, and with it a renewed hype about gas prices (talk about self-fulfilling prophesies). So of course, today I received yet another ”Gas War” viral email (see below… original eye-popping formatting included). This looks like a more recent strain of an old ideavirus, the one about how if Everyone doesn’t buy gasoline for One Day (or One [...]
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Not wanting to be left behind the ever-growing Google AdWords / YouTube / DoubleClick / etc. / etc. empire , Microsoft just revealed on Friday that it will buy aQuantive for $6 *BILLION* dollars. How quickly did MSFT scramble that deal together?
Well, don’t blink, cause Google’s hitting back today, with a strange,vaporware-esque leak to the WSJ about doing [...]
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Came across this interesting new company in the field of selling art prints & posters online: www.ImageKind.com
As co-founder and former head of Barewalls.com (one of the PPPs — Prominent Poster Players — of the dot-com era), I can say with some authority that these guys get it. They have a good print-on-demand business model and clear marketplace differentiation, with [...]
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[read with Andy Rooney voice] You know what I don’t understand? How come every time I turn on the t.v. on Sunday night there’s this guy with a whiny nasal voice, ranting away in a cranky stream of consciousness, offering his personal reaction to whatever random subject happens to cross his mind?
True, he is a master of [...]
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(yikes. maybe this is some kind of sign, like maybe it’s time for me to switch back to a Mac.)
There was a great vignette a couple of years ago in the New Yorker, about a guy who writes the fortune messages for the world’s largest manufacturer of fortune cookies (“Cookie Master” by Jeremy Olshan, 6/6/2005). The article [...]
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