Time Asia has a very interesting article about the surge in plastic surgery in Asia. One of the more interesting aspects of all this surgery is that people are trying to look more Caucasian: The culturally loaded issue today is the number of Asians looking to remake themselves to look more Caucasian. It’s a charge… Continue reading Plastic Surgery Boom in Asia
Month: August 2003
Friendster Network Graph
No, that’s not an ink blot. It’s a graph of a Friendster network which was built from the results of a robot crawling that network. I’d love to make one of these for my network(the code is provided). Being able to see the big picture is one of the things that’s sorely lacking from Friendster.… Continue reading Friendster Network Graph
Warren Buffett to Serve as Schwarzenegger’s Economic Advisor
According to CNBC — Warren Buffett will serve as Arnold Schwarzenegger’s senior financial and economic advisor. I’ll put up a link as soon as I find one. Update: Here we go — Ah-nold teams up with Buffett
Are Blog Entries First Drafts?
Along the lines of what I was talking about yesterday with spelling and vocabulary in blog posts… Here’s a post which asks if blog posts are first drafts. I agree 100% with the author — even if a post is thrown together quickly the author should at least proofread and spell-check that post before publishing.
Mozilla Firebird Optimized for Pentium III
Nice to see those of us with antiquated processors get some love — Unofficial Mozilla Firebird 0.6.1 Windows Build Optimized for Pentium III
American Obesity Running Wild
The New York Post has an article about the obesity rate in New York City. It says that 1 out of 6 (17%) New Yorkers is obese and half are overweight. But New York’s obesity rate is less than that national average of 21%. Amazing numbers which I’m sure will only get worse with today’s… Continue reading American Obesity Running Wild
The 2004 Olympics Mess
Here’s an interesting article about the issues Greece is having in preparing for the 2004 Olympics.
30 Billion Windows Crashes Each Year?
John C. Dvorak does some calculations and comes up with 30 Billion crashes by various Windows operating systems per year. Seems a little low to me.
How to Make Money on Wi-Fi
Looks like the Starbucks method of Wi-Fi access is a dud. According to this Wired article, Starbucks stores average less than 2 customers per day. That’s because they charge $6/hour for access. By contrast the companies that give Wi-Fi access away are using it to lure more customers: If you want to see the right… Continue reading How to Make Money on Wi-Fi
Color Blackberry
These combo devices just keep coming. RIM’s new color BlackBerry 7230 got very high marks in this review. I think I’m still partial to the Treo 600, but I’ll have to test this Crackberry out just to be sure. Here are a few of the features: E-mail, phone, SMS, browser and organizer applications available in… Continue reading Color Blackberry