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I am a physicist by training, financial risk management consultant by day, father by night, and a geek of several kinds.

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Chance for a finite Erdős number

This xkcd comic is hilarious!

xkcd comic

Erdős number on wikipedia

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Indexed

Jessica Hagy's "Indexed":http://indexed.blogspot.com is a bit similar to Hugh MacLeod's "gapingvoid":http://www.gapingvoid.com/ but less abstract, less sarcastic, and smarter.

indexed

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WordPattern

WordPress and TextPattern merged. Wouldn't it be cool?

"link":http://wordpattern.org/

"Textpattern’s legendary documentation"

hilarious.

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Web 2.0 or Star Wars

Everyday, new so-called _web 2.0_ services emerge with names silly beyond believe. "fyuze,":http://fyuze.com/ "oyogi,":http://www.oyogi.com and "gumshoo,":http://www.gumshoo.com/ to name a few.

Test your breadth of knowledge on the latest web service wave at "cerado.com":http://www.cerado.com/web20quiz.htm My score is 31.

A star war freak will ace this test as well. Not much separates them from frontier web developers.

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A Game Theoretic Approach to the Toilet Seat Problem

Brilliant real-world "analysis":http://www.bioteach.ubc.ca/quarterly/?p=108 with sound axioms. "Von Neumann":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann would have been proud. First, I thought it was similar to "The Journal of Irreproducible Results,":http://www.jir.com/ but "The Science Creative Quarterly":http://www.bioteach.ubc.ca/quarterly/ is actually solid in its sciences.

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Steven Gerrard gets punked

"C.C.":http://myinitials.cc/ sent me "this video":http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqPxlRGHBYs today. Hilarious!

Chelsea boy snuff Steven Gerrard

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Top Brands of 2005

The results are out at "brandchannel.com,":http://brandchannel.com/start1.asp?fa_id=298 by global regions and overall. Here's the Asia result, with no surprises.

Asia Top Brand 2005

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Robin Williams explains the origin of golf

I just love Robin Williams. The man is a genius. I was trying to find a video of him at CES 2006, but stumbled on this gem instead. Robin Williams on Golf

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