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A newly qualified chartered accountant applies for a job advertised in the Times. He is interviewed by the owner of a small business who ha...

Someone you do not know tells you "I have two children, one of whom is a son born on a Tuesday." What is the probability that this...

It never occurred to me that this broke any rules until this post pointed it out. Interesting how we can telescope it all into a single ev...

Ben Fry made a wonderful map of the United States by combining all the road maps for every county. Geographic features -- cities, rivers, ...

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Great blog about an artist and the comments his daughter makes about his art.

Great picture with a multiple exposure that took over a year.

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Very cool interactive map of where people moved in 2008. Too cool.

These guys are so on their game. One take, just like the Rube Goldberg video.

More like a 90-10 rule, which is often true as well. Creators, Synthesizers, and Consumers. On an unrelated note, I'm guessing that c...

How could you not have a good day if you tell yourself this every morning? It starts with "Look! I can be a shark!" and only get...

Seth Godin has a great take on a real business plan.

But unless the nation stops, as one Johns Hopkins professor put it, “burning its intellectual capital” by heedlessly using talented young pe...

This researcher says it is an oversimplification to view motivation in this one (or two) dimensional way.

A Person Paper on Purity in Language , a classic essay by Douglas Hofstadter.

This is a great track from a wonderful singing group album by Red Hot & Blue from 1986. I had it on tape and wore it out. I'd pay...

I thought of this when I saw that (unlike Prince of Persia, which got the big-budget love), Every Day the Same Dream game is now a movie .

Big movie weekend last weekend -- 1. Toy Story with the kids. Holds up well -- you wouldn't know it was already 15 years old. 5/5 2....