November 2010
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http://blogs.mercurynews.com/collegesports/2010/11/... →
Overall, the Cardinal gained 50 points on the Badgers in the Coaches poll.
Stanford did the same in the Harris poll, gaining 62 points.
That narrowing of the gap in the polls, combined with what should be an advantage in the computers … based on last week’s numbers … should be enough to vault Stanford in the No. 4 position in the standings.
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The Economics of Seinfeld →
The Calzone
George puts a dollar in the tip jar at the pizzeria, but the counterman’s head was turned and he didn’t see it. George laments that it cost him a dollar, but he got no credit for it. His altruism is not pure—he gets utility not from giving, but from getting credit for giving.
On the Trail of World’s Most Ingenious Thief →
Blanchard pulled off his first heist when he was a 6-year-old living with his single mother in Winnipeg. The family couldn’t afford milk, and one day, after a long stretch of dry cereal, the boy spotted some recently delivered bottles on a neighbor’s porch. “I snuck over there between cars like I was on some kind of mission,” he says. “And no one saw me take it.” His heart was pounding, and the...
The High Is Always the Pain and the Pain Is Always... →
Gambling addiction is a simple disease. Living the addiction is a bit more complicated. A chronicle of dependency in seven parts, by Jay Caspian King, about poker, Lolita, and how to lose $18,000 in 36 hours.
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The High Is Always the Pain and the Pain Is Always... →
Gambling addiction is a simple disease. Living the addiction is a bit more complicated. A chronicle of dependency in seven parts, by Jay Caspian King, about poker, Lolita, and how to lose $18,000 in 36 hours.
(via Instapaper)
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Whatcolor →
Simple. Makes me think of object-to-web Ruby snippet that’s been going around.
YooouuuTuuube.com →
also awesome.
TWOYOUTUBEVIDEOSANDAMOTHERFUCKINGCROSSFADER.COM →
sooooo awesome.
“The crowning irony of the Aectic is that”
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“Did you ever notice that Jones is basically Kenny Powers without the mullet, the...”
– Bill Simmons: Week 10 picks - ESPN
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Steve Jobs: What are the best Steve Jobs... →
“Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.”
“Stay hungry, stay foolish.”
“I say everything in life is like a Beatles song or a Bob Dylan song”
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“The first 8 computer bytes of all hacked cards were rewritten to read...”
– Coding Horror: Revisiting the Black Sunday Hack
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San Francisco celebrates the Giants
Boom ticker-tape:
City Hall in 2010:
City Hall in 1962:
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“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.”
– Matsuo Basho (via mnmal)
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