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Juan Enriquez shares mindboggling science
Sep 22nd
Even as mega-banks topple, Juan Enriquez says the big reboot is yet to come. But don’t look for it on your ballot — or in the stock exchange. It’ll come from science labs, and it promises keener bodies and minds. Our kids are going to be … different.
Brilliant!
About online advertising
Aug 27th
If some of you are still wondering about cost-per-thousand (CPM) and cost-per-click (CPC) in online advertising, here’s a small chart I made (not using Excel!) demonstrating the difference.
CPM refers to the amount you pay for your ad to be shown on a certain part of the web. People see it but you are not offered the guarantee they will click on it. After the certain number of impressions is run out, your ad is offline, leaving you with a small percent of click throughs. (CTR)
CPC means you only pay for an ad when a person click on it. This means that the 99% of the waste is eliminated from your budget leaving you with considerable savings for future campaigns. This is what happens when you cut out the inefficiency from an advertising platform. Kudos to Google for changing the rules of the game, making online advertising more efficient.
Good luck!
Don’t stay stupid during financial hard times
Aug 18th
No money left for your education? No problem! Many top universities now offer free online courses for everyone. Enjoy!
Yale Courses Online (personal favorite)
MIT Courses Online (second best)
Open University Courses Online
Carnegie Mellon Courses Online
Tufts University Courses Online
Utah State University Courses Online
Kutztown University Courses Online
Go! Learn! Unlearn and learn again!
Pick up lines for nerds
Aug 13th
-You, me, here… this couldn’t be any better if I programmed the holodeck myself!
-Your mouth says, ‘Shields up!’, but your eyes say, ‘A hull breach is imminent.’
-Honey, you’ve been looking for love in Alderaan places!
-I may look like an Ewok, but I’m all Wookie where it counts, baby.
-What’s a girl like you doing in a place like this when there’s a Farscape marathon on right now on the Sci Fi channel.
-I’ve been told I have the cool sexual prowess of a Romulan.
-Once you make love to a man with Vulcan ears on you never go back.
-How ’bout I slip into something more comfortable… like these STAR TREK VOYAGER pajamas!
-Someone must have shot you with a phaser set on ’stunning’.
-Tell me of this thing you humans call (pause) love.
-Forgive my Kirk-like boldness, but you wanna go back to my mom’s place and watch ‘Dr. Who’?
-Nice Asimov.
-With my IQ and your body we could begin a race of genetic superchildren to conquer the earth.
-If I was an enzyme, I’d be helicase so I could unzip your genes
-I less than three you. (I <3 you)
-Would you like to be the numerator or the denominator?
-What’s your sine? It must be pi/2 because you’re the 1.
- You’re like an exothermic reaction; you spread your hotness everywhere!
-You know, it’s not the length of the vector that counts; it’s how you apply the force.
-Hi, I’m writing a new make-out program. Would you like to join the beta-test?
Do you like cybersex?
Aug 8th
Bloodninja: Ok baby, we got to hurry, I don’t know how long I can keep it ready for you.
j_gurli13: thats ok. ok i’m a japanese schoolgirl, what r u.
Bloodninja: A Rhinocerus. Well, hung like one, thats for sure.
j_gurli13: haha, ok lets go.
j_gurli13: i put my hand through ur hair, and kiss u on the neck.
Bloodninja: I stomp the ground, and snort, to alert you that you are in my breeding territory.
j_gurli13: haha, ok, u know that turns me on.
j_gurli13: i start unbuttoning ur shirt.
Bloodninja: Rhinoceruses don’t wear shirts.
j_gurli13: No, ur not really a Rhinocerus silly, it’s just part of the game.
Bloodninja: Rhinoceruses don’t play games. They f**king charge your ass.
j_gurli13: stop, cmon be serious.
Bloodninja: It doesn’t get any more serious than a Rhinocerus about to charge your ass.
Bloodninja: I stomp my feet, the dust stirs around my tough skinned feet.
j_gurli13: thats it.
Bloodninja: Nostrils flaring, I lower my head. My horn, like some phallic symbol of my potent virility, is the last thing you see as skulls collide and mine remains the victor. You are now a bloody red ragdoll suspended in the air on my mighty horn.
Bloodninja: F**k am I hard now.
GFail
Feb 24th
GMail is down. My domain has GMail on it’s mail server as well, so I am at this point left with Yahoo and MSN. Good thing Google Finance is still working, just look at that Google stock going down.
More news here.
May God help us all! 
UPDATE: Google has posted the following on the gmail support site:
“We’re aware of a problem with Gmail affecting a number of users. This problem occurred at approximately 1.30AM Pacific Time. We’re working hard to resolve this problem and will post updates as we have them. We apologize for any inconvenience that this has caused”.
UPDATE: GMail is back on track. I guess we can still expect hickups since it’ still in BETA stage. Good job Google!
Free Twitter Translator
Feb 11th
Here is a nifty little Twitter implementation from the nice people at OneHourTranslation. I hope all you Twitter geeks are happy now, that your voice can be heard in so many languages.
Here are the instructions:
- Send @twitrans tweets like: en2sp I can now tweet you in Spanish! When are you coming for a visit in New York?
- Wait a few minutes. While you wait we route your text to our translators at OneHourTranslation.com
- Get the translation back in your Twitter home page: twitrans @twitter ¡Ya puedo decirte pío pío en español!¿Cuándo vendrás de visita a Nueva York?
- To get more help, please send @twitrans help or @twitrans codes.
- Available language codes: Arabic-ar, Chinese-zh, Dutch-nl, English-en, French-fr, German-de, Greek-el, Hebrew-he, Hindi-hi, Italian-it, Japanese-jp, Portuguese-pt, Russian-ru, Spanish-es
Have a go at it here @twitrans
P.S. You need a Twitter account for this.
Microsoft PhotoZoom
Feb 11th
PhotoZoom makes it easy for anyone to create zooming albums from their uploaded photos. It is an experimental site, developed at Microsoft, that uses the Deep Zoom technology in Silverlight 2.
Not bad Microsoft, not bad.
A word a day..
Feb 9th
lolosaurus
Greater than LOL, ROFL, LMAO, LMFAO and ROFFLES, Lolosaurus is perhaps the greatest e-way of saying “I find that funny and would wish to say so in a grandiose fashion”. However if it were to ever be translated into a laugh it would kill the laugher.
Billy:*rolls eyes*
Timmy: That’s what your mom did last night!
Billy:STFU!
Timmy: Lolosaurus!
(via urbandictionary.com)
