Illusion of the Year
I just find this well-crafted optical illusion incredibly satisfying. It took a few replays for me to get a sense of how I’m being tricked. …
Category: The Other Side
Martin Gardner
Image via Wikipedia Martin Gardner died on Saturday. He was 95 years old. It’s hard to give a sense of Gardner’s wide ranging interests and …
Zapping Mosquitoes With Lasers
At TED, Nathan Myhrvold explains how he and his team came up with the idea of a laser zapper in trying to solve the bigger …
Oldwick, NJ May 2010
A great weekend to be out biking the country roads of Hunterdon County, NJ
A Few Sentences on The Big Short
I wasn’t a big fan of Michael Lewis’s Liar’s Poker. His too-cool-for-school pose turned me off and his core philosophy was that any investment bank …
Headline of the Day
John Cleese takes £3,300 taxi across Europe to beat ash flight chaos
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
A bit of Edmund Tyrone’s monologue from Long Day’s Journey into Night: “…When I was on the Squarehead square rigger, bound for Buenos Aires. Full …
Graph of the Day
Dan Savage plots the relationship between Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Loudness of Cell Phone Conversations in his Savage Chickens cartoon.
It's Really a Documentary
I know this YouTube has been around for awhile, but I think it’s worth taking another look at. After having sat on both sides of …
Video for a Snowy Friday Afternoon
It’s time to close down your Excel spreadsheets for the week. Take a journey back 300 million years ago courtesy of Space Rip and watch …
Winter 2010, New Jersey
The scene at the feeder. It was busier earlier. I think the birds have finally decided it’s bad flying weather.
Kia's Super Bowl Ad
Who can resist sock puppets and robots? I also found myself enjoying this one from Kia:
Google's Super Bowl Ad
Incredibly effective and strangely moving. It brought a strong emotional connection to the mundane act of entering keywords. The ad is saying Google is more …
Beauty is Truth (or Complicated Formulas)
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 …
Spreadsheet Art
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 …