David Ng of The World’s Fair has been playing with viral marketing and Google bombing, and the experience has given him an idea for a nifty new meme. The way it works is this: Try to come up with 5 different search phrases for which, when entered into Google, your blog is the [...]
[Note: I goofed up in describing What is your formula? as an Edge annual question. It's not, and I've updated the post below to correct this.]
Edge Foundation does a yearly thing where they pose a question to an array of scientists and other intellectuals, and collect together all their answers. They have also [...]
There’s a new meme making its way through the blogosphere that I think I will indulge myself with. Although I have not been tagged (as usual) for the “Why do I blog” meme, I have come across it in a few different spots such as Aetiology and A Blog Around The Clock. This [...]
Jim Gibbon is holding a contest to see who can best describe a piece of academic research in the form of a haiku. You’ll need to hurry though, because the deadline for submission is the 21st. (Hat tip to OmniBrain.)
My own submission is as follows:
There exist problemsintractable to decideyet easy to check
For those [...]
There is a book meme making its way around the web, which I’ve come across at See Jane Compute and Afarensis (among other places). I’ve never been tempted to do one of these meme thingies before. However, the topic for this meme is certainly a worthy one, so here goes…
1) One book [...]
Before I say anything else, let me just mention that I’ve gotten linked to for the first time! (Or at least, this is the first one that I’m aware of.) Woo-hoo! Thanks, Jeff/Ernie.
I received an ad for the following item in my email today:
Now if you’ve been meaning to get yourself an iPod, and [...]