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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?
