Category: Miscellaneous

The psychologist Carl Jung introduced the term introvert to describe a person whose motives and actions are directed inward. Introverts tend to be preoccupied with their own thoughts and feelings and minimize their contact with other people.

I’m not sure it’s a black & white situation where either you are or are not an introvert, but I did enjoy reading Caring for Your Introvert. I can’t help but relate this back to why things didn’t work out, and maybe the article offers some clues about why I am the way I am.

Even if I am a bit of an introvert – I try to fight it. (Not very well considering it’s Friday night and I’m not at “Ice” or “The Corn Maze” – two places I was invited to go tonight.)

Interesting Wikipedia article on Godwin’s Law.

“As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.”

Apparently Google has come up with a way to use the power of “crowd wisdom” to predict market events of importance to Google within the company. Amazing stuff.

The markets were designed to forecast product launch dates, new office openings, and many other things of strategic importance to Google. So far, more than a thousand Googlers have bid on 146 events in 43 different subject areas (no payment is required to play).

I found a link at Sourceforge that appears to be a similar (or the identical?) program.

Take pictures; win awards!

I’m entering this image I took last March (on my birthday) into the People / Portraits category of the Everyman Photo Contest.

A summary of all the myths busted and confirmed by the MythBusters.

Update: That link doesn’t seem to work anymore. Try this one: http://mythbustersresults.com/

Well I feel at ease posting a link to this Not-To-Do list because I’ve spent the morning working on a project. But truth be told, I probably did more than a couple of these things that may have distracted me momentarily. At least my (now empty) garbage doesn’t smell!

If you ever have to walk the plank, you might want to use some of the swimming tips here. Many of the concepts I’ve learned over the years swimming at the University, but it’s a nice refresher to see them printed here.

Arrr Pirates Passe?

If this isn’t just sweet enough to give you a toothache… Two artists created a comic book description of their courtship and engagement.

Sorry I’m still bitter about my own situation; I actually liked the comic.

From the sound of this article from physorg.com, Dr Norman Wildberger, a University of New South Wales academic, has rewritten the arcane rules of trigonometry and eliminated sines, cosines and tangents from the trigonometric toolkit.

Does this mean schools the world over will be updating their curriculum? It makes me happy because I was one of those students that memorized the old rules for trigonometry long enough to take the tests and then promptly forget about them. I hope it’s safe to assume these new rules can be applied to computer programming and physics as well.