On the 8 Spot

found this web comic through bea. found this nice!!!

http://www.darcomic.org/2004/07/30/mischas-flower/

This is a slide show of Barrack Obama’s factory/lab visits, funny commentary.

October 23, 2009: MIT

Obama is back in his pensive mode, except this time he has thrown in an open-mouthed gape to demonstrate how awestruck he is with this jar of dirt.

via A History of Obama Feigning Interest in Mundane Things — Daily Intel.

I’ve had this somewhat long standing beef with the snakes  oil salesmen we call “No Approved Therapeutic Claim” supplement salesmen. Hope this guide helps people to be more careful with what they spend their hard earned money with. See I posit that who most uses these supplements are the same people who can’t afford to waste money on stuff that doesn’t work. In one way it’s just another way to separate the fool from his money, something I do not approve of when a lot of people are just surviving.

look at the pic from the linked site!!!

Playing the Game

By REGINA BAUTISTA

Reg of Cereal Saturdays (“A Weekend on a Weakday”) wanted to draw a comic about the awkward world of dating as a precursor to relationships, until she realized she never really dated. She is, however, awfully familiar with “The Game”, which will be discussed in further pictorial detail in today’s Show and Tell.

via Because X is the new Why » Playing the Game.

The pic is here Wow!!!

Click through, the romantic in me is moved.

Think about the people missing from your life, and how you feel about them. What we remember — and what we forget — may reveal more about ourselves than about them. We have photos, letters, souvenirs, and fragments of memory, but our powerful imagination takes over from there: We color in the blanks. And that’s OK. Retouching old loves is a way of understanding what we want. It helps us find our way to new ones.

It’s impossible to know whether the experiences below are about infatuation, true love, lust, or something else entirely. But we can be sure that each of these contributors learned about life and themselves in the process.

via The One Who Got Away – Pictory.

Click through and look at those gorgeous slides!!!!

News Alert: Bill Gates is officially redeemed from presentation purgatory

NANCY DUARTE

Wow, Gates did a great job at TED this year. Why is he suddenly a great communicator and presenter? What has driven his transformation? I think it’s because he moved from presenting about his job to presenting about his passion, and suddenly he communicates well. So, is it possible that we can be so passionate about what we do that we can present software upgrades with as much care and thoughtfulness? I think so!

This year at TED, Mr. Gates talked about climate change. Not sure who’s building his content or slides, but please keep them employed!

via Duarte Blog » Blog Archive » News Alert: Bill Gates is officially redeemed from presentation purgatory.

The map alone is worth the visit. I wonder what the Philippines would look like if analyzed the same way?

How to split up the US

As I’ve been digging deeper into the data I’ve gathered on 210 million public Facebook profiles, I’ve been fascinated by some of the patterns that have emerged. My latest visualization shows the information by location, with connections drawn between places that share friends. For example, a lot of people in LA have friends in San Francisco, so there’s a line between them.

Looking at the network of US cities, it’s been remarkable to see how groups of them form clusters, with strong connections locally but few contacts outside the cluster. For example Columbus, OH and Charleston WV are nearby as the crow flies, but share few connections, with Columbus clearly part of the North, and Charleston tied to the South:

via PeteSearch: How to split up the US.

This video was awesome!!!

The comic is here http://xkcd.com/442/

Find out at the linked blog!!!!

QUESTION: What is the difference among these three photographs?

via Thought Experiment #2 – Opinionator Blog – NYTimes.com.