The Chandler, AZ SpringHill Suites has both the Gideons’ Holy Bible and The Book of Mormon in the desk drawer. How about they place a copy of The God Delusion in each room instead?
Category Archives: miscellaneous
Salary disclosure
A few years ago, Charles Fishman wrote a fantastic article on Whole Foods for Fast Company. There’s a lot of information on and insight into their philosophy and business practice. I want to draw your attention to one thing: Each store had a book in the office that listed the pay of every employee for …
Like a fish needs a bicycle
You may have heard the old phrase “…like a fish needs a bicycle to describe something ridiculous. I’m proposing a new meme — write it on your blog or LJ and link back here: come up with the best simile you can for something, well, completely ridiculous. Totally implausible. Not gonna happen. Here’s mine: …like …
Happy Canada Day!
Happy Canada Day, everyone! In honour of this, I’ll share a few facts about Canada. Here’s the first one: Most Americans don’t know Canada is their biggest oil supplier: A new poll suggests that only a tiny minority of Americans — four per cent — know that Canada is the largest supplier of crude oil …
Funny stories from England
British girl describes (in hilarious manner) her (mis)adventures. Stoeis include how to travel by coach, avoid “religious nutters,” and what to do when approached by women carrying clipboards. read more | digg story
unofficial ice oasis schedule update
Last year, I put together a web site that generates schedules for the Ice Oasis hockey leagues. This worked well up until a month or so ago. Then this started happening:
ISO 3103
ISO 3103, the international standard for brewing tea.
intedisciplinary grad programs
A lot of the smart, interesting people I’ve met lately have come frm Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU and the School of Information at UC Berkeley. What other interesting information- and design-focused grad schools are out there? Update: Symbolic Systems at Stanford.
we quit
trust who?
Heather and I spotted this on the way out of the hockey arena in Yerba Buena in San Francisco.