Wolfram|Alpha. Calculate anything. ?

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This is classic.

How To Nail An Interview.

Summary:

Testing how well people understand a links first 11 characters shows whether sites write for users, who typically scan rather than read lists of items.

via First 2 Words: A Signal for the Scanning Eye Jakob Nielsens Alertbox.

We’re collectively living through 1500, when it’s easier to see what’s broken than what will replace it.

via Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay Shirky.

Many, many people have collections of things they would like to remember and or share. The Internet seems to have brought these two things together. For better or worse, online journals/memory box/commentary have proliferated.

I setup this site primarily to store the things that I encounter, either in my thoughts or on the travels around the Internet .

Computers make a great Auxiliary Brain   Image: www.freeimages.co.uk

Computers make a great Auxiliary Brain -- Image: www.freeimages.co.uk

Why “Unabridged Excerpt”?

  • It is hard to spell.
  • It is something I thought was funny when listening to a podcast and they thought it was a neat domain name.
  • No one should stumble on it as it it hard to spell.
  • I can turn it into something later as I have reserved the domain… and
  • It is hard to spell.