Who said websites need more than one page ? The one page website can be very effective - especially when used as a portfolio website as they let the site take a back seat and let the work shine through. Here we take a look at some examples of the best one-pagers ….
I recently came across this blog dedicated to the unique, odd and downright weird homes of yesterday, today and tomorrow! Go take a look for some really great homes??!!
Damn Interesting » The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon
From the Damn Interesting Blog, this article attempts to explain the phenomenon. From the article…
You may have heard about Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon before. In fact, you probably learned about it for the first time very recently. If not, then you just might hear about it again very soon. Baader-Meinhof is the phenomenon where one happens upon some obscure piece of information– often an unfamiliar word or name– and soon afterwards encounters the same subject again, often repeatedly. Anytime the phrase “That’s so weird, I just heard about that the other day” would be appropriate, the utterer is hip-deep in Baader-Meinhof. Most people seem to have experienced the phenomenon at least a few times in their lives, and many people encounter it with such regularity that they anticipate it upon the introduction of new information. But what is the underlying cause? Is there some hidden meaning behind Baader-Meinhof events?
Haute High-Tech Homes - Forbes.com
When mortgage broker Doug Burton arrives at his sleek Hollywood home, the house knows exactly what to do.
A small laser beam lets Burton know when he’s pulled his car far enough into the garage, and a light indicates whether the alarm system has been tripped since he left. As he enters the house, which appeared in the Steve Martin film Shopgirl, lights automatically switch on along his path, from the kitchen, to the hallway, to the master bedroom, and all the way to the closet, where he heads to change his clothes.
He doesn’t need stop to fiddle with the stereo system on the way; his favorite music automatically begins to play. And if the phone rings, the music automatically mutes so a female voice can say, if appropriate, “Your mother is calling from her cellphone.”
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In a story that has very little to do with appraisals, I wanted to forward this story to
you that I thought was just goofy and a great reflection of the good in some people.How do you turn one large red paper clip into a house? This blogger shows the way.
Taking a paper clip and turning it into a house sounds like a cheesy magic trick or a phony instance of resourcefulness on the 1980s TV show “MacGyver.”
Kyle MacDonald, however, has pulled it off.
One year ago, the 26-year-old blogger from Montreal set out to barter one red paper clip for something and that thing for something else, over and over again until he had a house.
On Wednesday the quest is ending as envisioned: MacDonald is due to become the proud owner of a three-bedroom, 1,100-square-foot home provided by the town of Kipling, Saskatchewan. MacDonald and his girlfriend, Dominique Dupuis, expect to move there in early September.
“This is such a cool community project. It feels right,” MacDonald said. “And now that I think about it, I can’t believe that another small town didn’t think of it. It will literally put them on the map.”
What’s in it for the town? The answer requires a quick MacDonald recap, featuring a menagerie of friendly folks, radio talk show hosts and aging celebrities, all bound together by the Internet.
It began when MacDonald, an aspiring writer, doer of odd jobs and apartment dweller, advertised in the barter section of the Craigslist Web site that he wanted something bigger or better for one red paper clip. He traded it for a fish-shaped pen, and posted on Craigslist again and again.
Roaming Canada and the United States, he exchanged the pen for a ceramic knob, and in turn: a camping stove, a generator, a beer keg and Budweiser sign, a snowmobile, a trip to the Canadian Rockies, a supply truck and a recording contract. Next, in April, he got himself really close, obtaining a year’s rent in Phoenix.
His adventure became an Internet blockbuster. He did Canadian and Japanese TV and “Good Morning America.” He made dozens of local radio appearances — one of which, in Los Angeles, was heard by a man who ended up as a pivotal figure.
That man is Corbin Bernsen. You may remember him from his roles in “L.A. Law” and “Major League.”
Hip to the publicity-generating machine that is Kyle MacDonald, Bernsen contacted him to say he was writing and directing a movie and would offer a paid speaking role as an item available for trade.
MacDonald was thrilled. But he feared the integrity of his journey would be compromised if he accepted the role without trading Bernsen something he really could use. Say what you want about “Major League 3,” but Bernsen has done well enough that he doesn’t need a free apartment in Phoenix.
So MacDonald kept Bernsen’s offer off his blog, but plowed ahead with an eye to finding something Bernsen would legitimately want.
Seemingly disregarding good economic sense, MacDonald traded the year’s rent for an afternoon with rocker Alice Cooper. (MacDonald’s response: “Alice Cooper is a gold mine of awesomeness and fun.”) Then in a move that really confused his blog readers, MacDonald bartered time with Cooper for a snow globe depicting the band Kiss…follow the links for the complete story.
The complete story from CNN can be found here or here on the guy’s own personal blog.
Wired News is reporting on a study that looked at quicker boarding of planes. Does the back to the front conventional wisdom hold up under scrutiny? From the article:
“According to Tim Lindemann, US Airways’ managing director of airport services, streamlining the boarding process was one part of a larger effort to reduce turnaround times at what was then America West. “We were looking at every possible way to shave time off the process,” he says.
Convinced that there was a statistical solution to the problem, Lindemann approached Arizona State University’s industrial engineering department. “We have a great university in our backyard, and hoped they could help,” he says. “The engineers there immediately understood the problem we were trying to solve, because they had witnessed it themselves. They had been on our flights.”
Professor René Villalobos and graduate student Menkes van den Briel began reviewing boarding systems used by other airlines. “The conventional wisdom was that boarding from back to front was most effective,” says van den Briel. The engineers looked at an inside-out strategy that boards planes from window to aisle, and also examined a 2002 simulation study that claimed calling passengers individually by seat number was the fastest way to load an aircraft.
The two then developed a mathematical formula that measured the number of times passengers were likely to get in each other’s way during boarding. “We knew that boarding time was negatively impacted by passengers interfering with one another,” explains van den Briel. “So we built a model to calculate these incidents.”"
Cool animation in the article showing the various scenarios. Ah the joys of air travel may be getting better : ) Absolutely nothing to do with appraising.
I started wondering what kind of activity this site is generating and I looked over the logs. A lot of you are coming by here and I appreciate that. I hope that you are finding something useful. Here is a graphic of the top 30 countries that are accessing this site.
Damn Interesting » America’s Discarded Superconducting Supercollider
Only slightly related to appraisal, this post provides a history and some pictures of the Superconducting Supercollider located just south of Dallas. This project was eventually cancelled, but not before a tremendous amount of right of way was acquired and construction started.
The Superconducting Super Collider (often abbreviated as SSC) was a ring particle accelerator which was planned to be built in the area around Waxahachie, Texas. It was planned to have a ring circumference of +/-54 miles.
During the design and the first construction stage, a heated debate ensued about the high cost of the project (the last estimate was $8.25 billion). An especially recurrent argument was the contrast with NASA’s contribution to the International Space Station (ISS), which was of similar amount. Critics of the project argued that the US could not afford both of them and the project was canceled by Congress in 1993.
This link shows the map of the area (look for the ring around Waxahacie. This was a big tunnel.
More pictures and a video can be found here.
General Disarray » Blog Archive » Ten things every Microsoft Word user should know
Title pretty much says it all. A very quick look at 10 features of MS word that users should be aware of.
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