Luck:

Opportunity meeting preparation.

Death by Powerpoint

Here's a list of pretty cool ways to visualize various kinds of data.

Puzzle of the day

Found this puzzle this morning and failed miserably. Cool stuff.

I want dtrace for Linux

I've been reading about dtrace for years but after watching this amazing presentation I finally understand how cool and clever it really is. If the Ruby dtrace support is a tenth as good as the one for Python christmas will come early this year. The only problem is of course that we run Linux at Netemic and there's no dtrace for Linux, but we can at least run it on our Mac development machines when Leopard comes out (since Leopard will come with dtrace installed!).

Serious compression

According to the efficient market hypothesis, every little piece of information about a company is reflected in its share price. Future research, sales, who will be hired or fired, value of its properties, etc, are all already compressed in to the little number that is the company's share price at a given time. Beat this, gzip!

Product of the day

Giffen good, a product where a rise in the price makes people buy even more of the good.