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shellerik··on Report says IBM is switching from Microsoft Office to Lotus Symphony
"330,000 employees have already switched"? I think they mean 330,000 employees have already had Symphony installed on their machines. While internal teams may eventually switch tools to conform with some corporate standard the external teams will always use whatever is most appropriate for dealing with their customers. Customers may not care if email comes from Lotus Notes but they expect documents to be .doc, .xls, .ppt, .mpp, etc.
shellerik··on Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them.
"those who kept their intentions private were more likely to achieve them"

Or they forgot about or lied about having those private intentions? How do you know that someone had private intentions?

shellerik··on Jokob Nielsen: Guesses vs. Data as Basis for Design Recommendations
I enjoy the fact that he uses two data points to support his conclusion that using two data points gives you better conclusions than guessing. Nothing circular about that reasoning at all. :-)
shellerik··on Noam Chomsky on Post-Modernism
I thought he said "I don't get postmodernism, either because there's nothing to get or because I'm not capable of getting it, and I have my doubts that it is the latter."
shellerik··on Visualizing Music
I'd have to guess he used some kind of fourier analysis.
shellerik··on Visualizing Music
Well I guess I have to post the one I did a while back: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6nkqqOZKpY

I recorded the music on a midi keyboard then wrote some perl scripts to read the midi file and generate POV-Ray scene files to go along with it.

shellerik··on Don’t! The secret of self-control
If you're not pushing yourself forward what are you doing instead? Perhaps whatever you are doing in place of pushing yourself forward is the marshmallow you need to say no to.
shellerik··on The 500 Most Important Domains on the Internet
whitehouse.gov on the move up

most edus on the way down - a post ncaa tournament thing?

shellerik··on Interactive California Unemployment Map
The seasonal changes are interesting. More work in the valley during the summer. More work at the ski areas in the winter.
shellerik··on NBC Boss Explains Why Boxee Users Can't Have Hulu
This article seems kind of strange to me since I watch Hulu on my TV. I guess most people won't by the extra cable.
shellerik··on How to Incorporate Stupidity Into Your AI Code
Interesting ideas. I wonder if the perfect AI would study its opponent's moves and learn to move just as they would, then it would be like the human is playing against themselves.
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