Most websites use some version of Captcha, as a kind of spam preventative measure. It makes sense, as software robots at the moment don’t have much in the way of artificial reading intelligence. The basic idea is that some sort of vaguely obscure selection of letters and numbers (sometimes words) are shown to a user […]

Information Architects have created a smart and slick Web Trend Map 2008, overlaying the most powerful and connectible websites onto a train map of Tokyo. A clickable version is available here.

Ok the title is a bit misleading, but if someone could figure out how to sleep with your eyes open he or she would rake in billions.
The product or method would be sold to millions of office workers around the world, as well as students. Papers would say it would cause a loss of trillions […]

We could call it jaywalking, but crossing an intersection diagonally makes a lot of sense. For the pedestrians of course. The motorists get cross, and the mother in the 4×4 with the baby crosses herself as she nearly hits you.

A momentary glimpse of rain
Among my fingers
Then the sense of it
Rushing through me
Past me
Beyond me

We’ve all heard about or read The Tipping Point  by Malcolm Gladwell, a book that popularizes the concept of highly connected people being the nodes in the spread of information. Read an interesting article from Fastcompany about how this popular view may be a myth.

In maths, two negatives multiplied together make a positive. In English, the double negative (that is two negations in a sentence)  do not make a positive, contrary to popular belief and English shmexperts.
For instance, the sentence It is not uncommon to find organic food in supermarkets has a different meaning to the sentence It is […]