How to sell a startup – how to get buyers interested – selling a startup – strategy – Link.
How to make saving as exciting as spending – have a goal in mind – track your progress – Link.
23 Badly planned internet ad placements – humor – ads placed next to contrasting published pieces – Link.
The math of gambling – casino – how a deep faith in probability theory and maths can get you rewards in gambling – New Scientist. Link.
9 keys to the perfect corporate blog – what makes a blog compelling? – Link.
10 Vital lessons for web start-ups – Link - from customer support to license management.
A consumer starts invoicing brands for the time he spends on them – makes one stop and think – Link. – Keywords – Crudden – Six weeks.
Lyved – 7 ways to change your life in the next 7 days – Self Improvement- Link.
Project Cartoon – How Projects really work – humorous cartoon strip – how customer wanted it, and how different stakeholders delivered the project. Link.
Qualify Your Buyer – from n plus 1 Mag – an interesting read about Millionaire match. Link.
HolyTaco – a flow chart to determine if you should get divorced – Link – a handy flowchart to determine whether or not you are going to have sex at the end of your date. – Link.
Locklin on science – interesting read – icons of engineering quality – with pictures of calculators.
Want to remember everything you’ll ever learn – Wired mag – SuperMemo software.
Crackunit – How to do digital planning – Link.
Minimalism – Cultivating digital simplicity. Link.
Academic writing – Citing papers that you’ve never read or were never written.
Higher Up and Further In – How to get children to appreciate great art – Picture studies – paintings.
Salon: America is not a christian nation.
Lisa Blonder draws a picture with her left hand, right hand, left foot, and right foot. Plus another attempt from 2004.
According to Google Maps, it’s 3 hours and 59 minutes from Intercourse to Climax.
Whats your best programmer joke? – from Stack Overflow.
Iowa State Fair – 10 Sculptures made of butter – Mental Floss mag.
Recession-Proof Graduate - Charlie Hoehn’s Guide to getting any job within a year of finishing college.
Can a computer become a vase? Drop GCSEs – we should be teaching our children to think.
The Linguistic Fun page – from Ojohaven.
Tips, ideas, know-how for small biz and home biz owners. Enterprise Quest.
Hard earned lessons about what not to do – write a long business plan.
The Contrarian – On the metaphysics of teleportation. (Excerpt – to build a working teleportation machine, all you really need to do is…)
SQL Pie Chart – Interesting – how would you create a Pie chart using SQL alone? (with suitable data of course)
6 Intriguely Shaped Communities on Google Maps - with aerial pics.
Yahoo Shine relationships – 5 Things You dont need to have in common.
Only 32% of the US general public believes that humans evolved by natural processes.
From MIT Technology Review – explaining why we have yet to spot extraterrestrials.
Technical Lead – 36 steps to success as a technical lead.
How the brain hard-wires us into loving Google, twitter and texting – and why that is dangerous – from Slate mag.
Everything we know about babies can be wrong – from Book – Philosophical Baby.
Science – so what – so everything.
Some say we retain less information as we read more and more – especially on the Internet – Digital text and human brain.
Going to college and not finding the time to get good food – 50 amazing ramen noodles recipes. And on the topic of college, hackCollege – how to get your textbooks for free (many comments worth reading). Lifehacker – get your textbooks for free.
How to be a successful Jerry Springer Guest – a four page compendium(interesting account)
The View from Harvard Business – 5 Personal core competencies for the 21st century.
A guide to derailing awkward conversations by trivialising your opposition’s perspective. On the same topic – ForeverGeek – 38 ways to win an argument.
Humanity hardwired – half the world eats too much, the other half has too many babies.
Geeky Graffiti Sightings from Smoont.
Mobile Augmented Reality Browser – Layar allows you to see what is around you by displaying digital info on top of reality via the camera of your mobile. (More on augmented reality with a nice video about Layar here)
Acrossair augmented reality – restaurant, entertainment listings.
Mingle2 Blog – 9 reasons not to date a t-rex.
SolutionWatch - 50 ways to take notes. Lifehacker – Five ways to boost your note-taking.
‘Inspired by Science’ T-shirts! (A huge collection)
What do ‘wallet neuropathy’ ‘thumbprinty’ ‘frequency illusion’ have in common? They are new words coined by journalists and writers – so here’s a word-lover’s guide to new words.
Signs that contain spelling errors – captured with a handy cam.
The article says articles, things, items, stuff, merchandise, and goods from dollar stores are good, normal, and so on.
Nerd Business – Wanna plunk down a few thousand dollars in a super-grade home office setup? 96 pics which can give a mental trigger as to how your home office can be up also.
Chris Spooner’s guide to how to create a lifestream of your online activities.
GlobalEdge – a business knowledge portal from Michigan State Univ that covers everything about international business (or so it seems).
Mapping relations – measuring influence – between people and organizations – Muckety.