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Here I am trying to find beauty in spreadsheets, and Nikki Graziano discovers hidden formulas in nature. Take a look  at Nikki’s mashup of nature photographs and math.

You can’t have the Internet without anonymity.  In fact,  privacy protection is designed into the lowest levels of the plumbing, which supports communication without revealing identity and origin.  Bruce Schneier has more advice to law enforcement:

Cornell mathematician Steve Strogatz is writing posts for The New York Times’ Opinionator blog.  He’s better known to some through the Watts-Strogatz small world model (or six degrees of Kevin Bacon). Strogatz and Watts  were  the first to explain the clustering … Continue reading →

Remember the iPhone? It’s like a smaller version of the iPad. Anyway, the tech press is all over the news that Apple unlocked VoIP calling within the iPhone SDK . The first app to take advantage is iCall (or maybe … Continue reading →

The written word seems so horribly low tech. It hasn’t changed much for a few millennia, at least since the ancient Greeks invented symbols for vowels.

Of course, we can’t all have the design sensibilities of a Steve Jobs.  But I believe there’s untapped creative potential in each of us. Thankfully  Excel spreadsheets let us sneak artistic flourishes into otherwise sterile profit-and-loss statements and marketing workflows.  … Continue reading →

In most civilian fields, job satisfaction may not be a life-or-death matter, but a relatively uninterested, insecure work force is unlikely to bring about a vigorous recovery.