Here are a few eclectic links for the weekend.
How globes are made. You might enjoy watching this with your children.
Jason Fried presentation on the 37 Signals approach to small business. My favorite line: “Tomorrow doesn’t happen unless you get today right.” You do not want to watch this one with your children.
A lot of people don’t know what a web browser is.
Scientific American podcast interview with Atul Gawande, author of Complications and Better. Among other things, Gawande explains how process improvements, not new science, have caused a dramatic decrease in battlefield fatalities.
Software projects and power laws. The probability distributions for delays have thick tails.
A quick comparison of US and Canadian law.
Two math blog carnivals came out this week: Carnival of Mathematics and
Math Teachers at Play. Anyone know when or where the next Carnival of Mathematics will be?
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Daniel Lemire 07.11.09 at 18:30
I’m not sure my sons have ever seen a Globe, though I have shown Google Earth to them… and they have some geography video game that they like.