May 2004

“The Stanford brand of Kool-Aid”

Half of Americans Pressed for Time; a Third Are Stressed Out

Bookmark Management Woes

There is a hilarious segment in The Oval Show Gets a Job where my friend Matt interviews a woman from the now defunct HotLinks.com: Woman: “It’s all about accessing your favorite links from anywhere in the world”. Matt: “My favorite links are in Vienna, Austria. Can I access those?” Woman: “Nope!” What makes it especially…more

Cars, Transportation’s Bullies

Schoolground Bullies are bigger than they need to be make a big display of strength when shown up by someone smaller walk with arms out wide to appear bigger consume twice what a normal person does and contribute less to the community cost more to deal with make insurance necessary Cars have space for 8,…more

Bob as a South Park Character

From South Park’s Character Generator and a bit of Photoshopping. I think this guy might stick around for a while …

Mountain View Public Library has Science Made Stupid

TheFeature :: Cybercafe Society – coffee as social stimulant?

Old pre-revolution french newspaper – somehow this seems like it could be good online as well … like alazanto and the morning news

Tom Weller Presents – the author of “Science Made Stupid”, the book that did horribly because you have to be really smart to understand why his joke science is funny.

MINIM 16 – Long journeys seldom begin in Chinese restaurants – does this say something about productivity?