8/10/2007

It is FRIDAY today. Sorry for earlier day-of-the-week confusion that the SPECIAL caused on Tuesday!

* Mike recommended the Darwin Awards project. “Honoring those who improve the species… by accidentally removing themselves from it” http://www.darwinawards.com/

* For those that don’t know, Mike puts many miles on his bike every week (50-100?), so I’d like to nominate him as our team’s Cycle Hero: http://www.cyclehero.com/

* An essay on collecting and keeping stuff in your house: “What I didn’t understand was that the value of some new acquisition wasn’t the difference between its retail price and what I paid for it. It was the value I derived from it.” http://www.paulgraham.com/stuff.html

* “Apple’s stock is on a tremendous roll; the company is now in the Fortune 100 and has a market cap of about $120 billion. For comparison, that’s almost four times greater than Yahoo’s, about twice Dell’s, $20 billion more than Oracle’s, roughly the same as HP’s, and only $40 billion behind Google’s. Even the mighty Microsoft’s cap, at $277 billion, is only a little more than double Apple’s. To put this in historical perspective, five years ago [...] Microsoft’s market cap was about 33 times greater than Apple’s – $210 billion to $6.3 billion.” http://daringfireball.net/2007/08/taking_stock

* Fitts’s Law: “The time to acquire a target is a function of the distance to and size of the target.” See what this means for software design in QA form at http://www.asktog.com/columns/022DesignedToGiveFitts.html or try it yourself at http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~cs5724/g1/tap.html

* “ACCIDENT, n. An inevitable occurrence due to the action of immutable natural laws.” – Devil’s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce http://www.thedevilsdictionary.com/


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