July 2010
15 posts
“He sent me a crazy text message today saying something like, anyone crazy enough...”
– Matt Barnes, on Kobe Bryant
In case you forgot, Barnes faked throwing a ball at Kobe’s face during an in-bounds play last season. Barnes joins Artest as a Laker who talked lots of smack with Kobe a year prior to joining the team.
“In the fall and spring semesters, universities are effectively a cartel....”
– Montclair SocioBlog on summer school economies. (via dbreunig)
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The Top Idea in Your Mind →
Paul Graham:
I think most people have one top idea in their mind at any given time. That’s the idea their thoughts will drift toward when they’re allowed to drift freely. And this idea will thus tend to get all the benefit of that type of thinking, while others are starved of it. Which means it’s a disaster to let the wrong idea become the top one in your mind.
Replace Microsoft Word smart quotes and other... →
Reducing overdose deaths in Washington... →
Smart governing.
Washington’s New “911 Good Samaritan” Law goes into effect June 10, 2010. Five things you should know about this law:
1.) Drug overdoses kill more than two people per day in Washington. More Washingtonians die every year from overdoses than from car crashes. 2.) Many of these deaths can be prevented with fast medical help. Calling 911 can save a life. 3.) If you call...
Research Project: Effect of Oolong Tea, Oolong Tea... →
Ongoing USDA research about oolong tea. Marking this down so I can check back when the results come out near the end of the year.
found at T Ching - [Tea] Concepts to keep an eye on in 2010
How England can learn lessons from German... →
Klinsmann led the German soccer’s team return to form, taking them to the semi-finals in the 2006 World cup. Germany’s coach today, Joachim Loew, was his assistant at this time.
Many of the lessons England can learn from Klinsmann apply to US Soccer as well, and Klinsmann’s name has been mentioned quite a bit were the US to replace Bob Bradley.
Glass doesn't flow very quickly, even in old...
The oft-repeated anecdote that old glass panes in cathedrals are visibly thicker due to years of gravity pulling at the material is false.
And apparently scientists have known this for quite a while. Dr. E.D. Zanotto in Brazil noted in 1998 that it would take a time span longer than the age of the universe for glass to flow enough for us to notice it.
Inconsistencies in the thickness of...
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Stack Overflow: How can I get Gmail-like file... →
Short answer: use Flash. This is do-able with HTML5 technologies as well, but the Flash experience is better because the upload dialog is titled “Select file(s) to upload…”
In Safari, using an HTML5 solution results in an untitled dialog box meaning users are not tipped off that they can upload more than one file within that dialog.
