Tyler Cowen of Marginal Revolution posts about an interesting phenomenon: nearly one third of all households have house numbers that start with 1. And, the popularity of each subsequent number decreases logarithmically.
The Numbers Game
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Monthly Archives: May 2007
You know you’re in college when…
Usually these kinds of lists are really generic, but I was pleasantly surprised at this one: http://www.theburningbiscuit.com/InCollege.html
Pop Quiz: Rich or Poor?
Dani Rodrik asks, “Would you rather be poor in a rich country or rich in a poor country?” Intuition got me this one right, but I was still surprised by the answer: And the Winner Is…
Hilarious Article From The Onion
Women. All they ever think about is talking…
I Never Talk On The First Date | The Onion – Americas Finest News Source
An Interview With Gene Stupnitsky, co-writer of The Office
My friend Elyse interviewed Gene Stupnitsky, one of the writers of NBC’s cult-hit The Office.
http://www.lifeintheoffice.com/2007/04/30/lito-interview-with-office-writer-gene-stupnitsky/
New Plugin: Popular Posts Widget
I wrote a plugin for WordPress. It displays a list of the most popular posts on your blog. Check it out on my plugins page: http://www.alexhutnik.com/wordpress
You can see it in action on the sidebar too.
Weathering heavy traffic with WordPress and Turbocharged | Turbocharged
Great article for WordPress users about optimizing your site for heavy traffic. Also, it gives an example for using squid to go between the user and Apache to reduce server load.
Personally, I use WP-Cache, and everything seems to work out fine.
Weathering heavy traffic with WordPress and Turbocharged | Turbocharged