Monthly Archives: September 2006

Exit Interview by Web Form

September 29, 2006 – 9:23 am

What I didn’t put in the box marked “What would you do to make {Company X} better?”: “I would make the box where I get to type what I would do to make {Company X} better bigger”.

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Indifference

September 28, 2006 – 1:30 pm

A new report from Unicef shows that over 1.5 million children a year die because of unclean water. That’s around 1 every 20 seconds. A 9/11 every 16 hours. Around the same rate as the Holocaust. We know how to make water clean. We even know how to make it clean cheaply in most cases, [...]

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Literary Criticism

September 27, 2006 – 6:14 am

Joe Mathlete explains Marmaduke, daily. Really. (HT: Daring Fireball)

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Right-Clicking in OS X

September 22, 2006 – 10:33 am

Following my recent traumas with our MacBook I’ve been sent my old Dell by work. It might have no battery life, a cracked case, a power supply that doesn’t work in the UK, a screen that’s fading to nothing, less memory than my iPod Shuffle, but it’s served me well for over 4 years so [...]

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Armpits

September 21, 2006 – 9:46 am

Did you know that under ideal conditions a single cell of the phytoplanktonic cyanobacterium Gomphosphaeria Kützing 1836 could reproduce to cover the entire world armpit deep in its progeny in only 4.5 days? That’s our armpits, by the way, not Gomphosphaeria’s; even if it had armpits, which it doesn’t, they’d be so close to the [...]

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