Ed Burtynsky's amazing photo-series on China's manufacturing houses. Must see!
Monday, June 25, 2007
Sunday, June 24, 2007
Big Phone, Small Phone
Still on the topic of the iPhone, there is no question that this phone is quite large, wide too. I for one wouldn't be too comfortable slipping it into my jeans' pocket.
While competing phones are getting razor thin, ala Razr, Slvr etc. With not enough time to go back to the drawing board, apple decides to use forced perspective and comes up with a innovative solution: While shooting ads, use a model with bigger hands!
Voila!
side-by-side for your viewing convenience:
Story "borrowed" from l-rs
While competing phones are getting razor thin, ala Razr, Slvr etc. With not enough time to go back to the drawing board, apple decides to use forced perspective and comes up with a innovative solution: While shooting ads, use a model with bigger hands!
Voila!
side-by-side for your viewing convenience:
Story "borrowed" from l-rs
Saturday, June 23, 2007
No problem, I got an iPhone
getting tired of all the hype around the iPhone? Here's Conan's hillarious take on what the iPhone will be.
Sideburns! hahaha
Sideburns! hahaha
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Spaghetti Junction
Take the next right turn hun.
ok.
(dum dee dum dee dee dum...)
You just went past it! Do you have any idea what that means?
We take the next right turn?
No you Idiot, you spend the next two hours staring at this picture figuring out if there is even a way to go back. Men!
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more travelly groovy curvy goodness here
ok.
(dum dee dum dee dee dum...)
You just went past it! Do you have any idea what that means?
We take the next right turn?
No you Idiot, you spend the next two hours staring at this picture figuring out if there is even a way to go back. Men!
---
more travelly groovy curvy goodness here
Peas of Mind
A poor farmer grew peas and beans on his farm. At harvest time he gathers the peas and beans, but being poor, he has only one sack to take to the market. Not wanting to mix them, he pours the peas into the sack, ties it up and then pours the beans in.In the market he meets a trader who wants to buy the peas. The trader has a sack too, in which he wants to carry away the peas but is not willing to trade his sack with the farmer's. Neither the farmer or the trader want to devalue the peas or the beans by pouring them out on the ground.
You chance along these individuals in the market, can you help the farmer make the sale?
(No you are not interested in purchasing the beans :p)
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Get pwned on voice
Clive Thompson writes:
"Recently I logged into World of Warcraft and I wound up questing alongside a mage and two dwarf warriors. I was the lowest-level newbie in the group, and the mage was the de-facto leader. He coached me on the details of each new quest, took the point position in dangerous fights and suggested tactics. He seemed like your classic virtual-world group leader: Confident, bold and streetsmart.
But after a few hours he said he was getting tired of using text chat -- and asked me to switch over to Ventrilo, an app that lets gamers chat using microphones and voice. I downloaded Ventrilo, logged in, dialed him up and ...
... realized he was an 11-year-old boy..."
Hilarious!
"Recently I logged into World of Warcraft and I wound up questing alongside a mage and two dwarf warriors. I was the lowest-level newbie in the group, and the mage was the de-facto leader. He coached me on the details of each new quest, took the point position in dangerous fights and suggested tactics. He seemed like your classic virtual-world group leader: Confident, bold and streetsmart.
But after a few hours he said he was getting tired of using text chat -- and asked me to switch over to Ventrilo, an app that lets gamers chat using microphones and voice. I downloaded Ventrilo, logged in, dialed him up and ...
... realized he was an 11-year-old boy..."
Hilarious!
That test results meant nothing?
Al Feldzamen takes a mathematicians view of how multiple choice tests work. Especially difficult ones. Turns out the harder a multiple choice exam, the lesser the accuracy of the ranking made from just counting only the correct answers!
Some of the math on that page is wrong, as pointed out in the comments on the same page, nevertheless the main argument still holds. Hmm.. SATs, GRE, GMAT, Engineering entrance exams here, Bar exams in the US..
Negative marking for wrong answers improves the accuracy a bit, but here is a very interesting scheme reported by a slashdot reader that seems to solve the problem:
Two boxes next to the answer space ask the test taker how confident (s)he is of the answer, and the scoring scheme goes:
If you ticked "confident" and you were wrong, -2
If you ticked "confident and you were right, +2
If you ticked "unsure" and you were wrong, -0
If you ticked "unsure" and you were right, +1
mighty interesting, If I ever get around to teaching a class, I might inflict this on some poor souls out there :p
Some of the math on that page is wrong, as pointed out in the comments on the same page, nevertheless the main argument still holds. Hmm.. SATs, GRE, GMAT, Engineering entrance exams here, Bar exams in the US..
Negative marking for wrong answers improves the accuracy a bit, but here is a very interesting scheme reported by a slashdot reader that seems to solve the problem:
Two boxes next to the answer space ask the test taker how confident (s)he is of the answer, and the scoring scheme goes:
If you ticked "confident" and you were wrong, -2
If you ticked "confident and you were right, +2
If you ticked "unsure" and you were wrong, -0
If you ticked "unsure" and you were right, +1
mighty interesting, If I ever get around to teaching a class, I might inflict this on some poor souls out there :p
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