Every Calvin and Hobbes ever printed
I could kill a heck of a lot of time reading Every Calvin and Hobbes ever published. I was so disappointed when Waterson stopped, but I really respect the decision. Has it really been almost a decade? (Thanks to A Small Victory for the link…) Technorati tags: humor, comics
Is intelligence sustainable?
My nephew, Jake, is four years old, and he’s so smart that the pediatrician can’t even measure his intelligence because the scale only goes up to age seven. He lives 1000 miles away from me, but I met him for the first time a couple of years ago during the big Northeast blackout, when I [...]
Quote of the day
Today’s quote of the day, courtesy of Scott Gose: “Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.” – Abraham Lincoln
The Long Tail
Quick quiz: Today, will Amazon a) sell more books that didn’t sell yesterday, or b) sell more books that also sold yesterday? Answer: a. In other words, if you look at a bell curve, you will, in many (or even most) cases see more items in the long, skinny, portion of the graph on the [...]