Ever wonder how companies are connected? Then you might want to check out They Rule which maps relationships between corporate board members. It also includes data for some colleges and universities. It’s basically Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon for the corporate world. A partial map of the tech industry: It should be noted that this is not live data, but that gathered from SEC filings and other documents and is only updated yearly at this point. Read more »
Why do people take the time to compose such things? I’m not sure, but I did find it rather humorous. Admittedly, though it’s brief, I spaced out around the 1850s. 245,000,000 years ago, thanks to a gamma ray burst originating in our galaxy’s core, the Permian mass extinction takes place, wiping out something like 96% of all life on the planet. This happens every 100,000,000 or so for a while. Don’t ask why. Within a few dozen million years, the reptiles and dinosaurs are back, and they’re really pissed off. I would be remiss not to warn you of the 1995 page design you’re about to be greeted with. Consider Read more »
I hate mornings. Especially mornings in which I am greeted way too early by a less than welcome alarm. Unfortunately, that would be five out of seven days of the week. So, maybe I should try retraining myself to become a morning person? Ha. If you’re more ambitious than I (and less skeptical), you might want to check out Steve Pavlina’s article on how to become an early riser. It’s an interesting read if nothing else. Read more »
Joel Swanson of hippocrit.com has created a cool 3-D representation of the Adobe Photoshop interface. I don’t know what else to say about this, so just go look at the pretty pictures. Read more »
Builder AU has tried to make another stab at the eternal question of why there aren’t more women in IT with its article wondering about what women want in IT. Women have long been under-represented in the IT industry, especially in senior roles. Is it time to accept that females lack interest in the field, or is lack of support and enduring stereotypes keeping women away? We look at the current state of play in Australia, and find out what the future may hold. The ideas proposed for why there are fewer women than men in IT are wide and varied from dot-com damage to the geek stereotype. I have Read more »
Though the site as an arguably lame name, CiteULike’s del.icio.us like logging and tagging of academic papers is an interesting idea. CiteULike is a free service to help academics to share, store, and organise the academic papers they are reading. When you see a paper on the web that interests you, you can click one button and have it added to your personal library. CiteULike automatically extracts the citation details, so there’s no need to type them in yourself. It all works from within your web browser. There’s no need to install any special software. You can browse the most active tags, check out others’ digests of links, and build Read more »
Frank Pape of Distracto has put together a quick tutorial on installing Subversion on Mac OSX. He goes through installation (relatively simple with provided installation packages) as well as post-installation tasks. Also, as long as we’re on the subject of Subversion, if you know of any really good, easy to use GUI Subversion clients for Mac OSX (other than SCPlugin), I would love to hear it. Read more »
Really need to get some work done, but you’re stuck in a cubicle near the office “freeway”? You might just need a room defender then. The awesome gadget has a motion sensor that rapid-fire shoots fifteen foam disks when triggered. If your office space needs a sentinel, you’d better hurry as the item has been discontinued and a limited quantity is available. I wonder if I can expense this… Read more »
Wow, who knew there were so many different ways to take notes? We’ve covered the Cornell system before, but EnglishCompanion.com has quite the exhaustive list. Seriously, I think my hand is cramping just reading the list. Among the systems listed: Cluster notes Episodic notes Inference notes Process notes Q notes Read more »
I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t really keep up on Mac product releases and cycles (or Mac rumors) — and I’m betting there are a few FGsters like me. Thus, why I think the MacRumors Buyer’s Guide is pretty bookmark-worthy. The guide maps the days since update for each model and provides a recommendation (double-plus good). With the exception of “Don’t Buy – Updates Soon”, the remainder of recommendations are simply calculated based on the proximity of the most recent product release. The sooner from release, the stronger the “buy” recommendation that is made. When enough rumors accumulate regarding a particular product’s release or enough time has Read more »
