February 23, 2007 - 01:46, by Dostalek, Kevin
So inst it ineiretstng taht you can aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht yru'oe rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid- Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? yaeh I awlyas thought slpeling wanst taht ipmorantt.
February 13, 2007 - 01:42, by Dostalek, Kevin
Here's that GDP map that I was talking about last week. While there's a pretty big margin of error here, the point is to basically make comparisons between the GDP output of the states with the GNP of the country it's paired with. Lots of interesting ways I think you could look at things.
February 8, 2007 - 01:40, by Dostalek, Kevin
Rob get's credit for this find, but I had to share it somewhere:
http://www.flatlandthemovie.com/
For those not familiar with the book, Flatland was written in the early part of the last century by Edwin Abbott and is about a 2-dimensional square (named Arthur) who gets visited by a sphere from the 3rd dimension. He then goes off to visit lineland (1st dimension) and pointland (no dimension) and starts extrapolating off into the 4th, 5th, etc... At this point he's thrown in jail for all his krazytalk.
Anyway, little known fact is that the book was the inspiration for our server naming convention at Ambassador. :)