Coke/Pepsi Challenge Results

New Years Eve held the Coke/Pepsi 3-shot challenge pitting the discerning palettes of my guests against a gauntlet of samples.  The preponderance of guests stated they’d be able to tell them apart at a statistically significant level.

Purpose: Determine if a tester can accurately identify samples of Coke or Pepsi when presented in lots of three.  [...]

Anti-Powerthirst

If you haven’t seen the Powerthirst YouTube videos, I strongly advise you do.  I’d link to them, but anything that rhymes with “reaming tedia” is banned at work.  Anyway, named after Purple Drank the sedative-laden drink popular in the South, Drank is now available.

Tired of spiking your beverages with sedatives and cough syrup to slow [...]

Google Markers: The Real Story

This is what’s really happening when place a marker on Google Maps.

Via Gizmodo.com via Dark Roast Blend

I’d like to meet the poor bastard that has to run around when you do street level viewing.

Lord's Prayer in the Law

I’ve been doing some investigation into the EPA over the last year or so and found an amazing opinion from the Circuit Court for DC regarding daily pollution rates. The EPA had said that “Daily” was merely a construct and pollution could be calculated on a seasonal or annual basis. The Court shot [...]

Economist.com's Take on The Command Line

I found the following in an Economist.com article on why kids can’t read:

No question, without a wimpy GUI, computers would never have become as popular as they are today. The command-line interface—with its forbidding prompt and blinking cursor—required mastering a whole catechism of arcane instructions that only a priesthood of computerdom could cherish.

When “root@computername:~# shutdown [...]

Economist.com's Take on The Command Line

I found the following in an Economist.com article on why kids can’t read:

No question, without a wimpy GUI, computers would never have become as popular as they are today. The command-line interface—with its forbidding prompt and blinking cursor—required mastering a whole catechism of arcane instructions that only a priesthood of computerdom could cherish.

When “root@computername:~# shutdown [...]

Strata of Crap

Over the last semester, on Mondays and Wednesdays I’d stop for lunch on my way to school at some fast food vendor and put the napkin I got above the passenger visor.  If I got a note or something I’d jam it in there too and a day or two ago I took out the [...]

99% Caffeine Free

I purchased a Yoohoo today and saw a new label on it “99% caffeine free”.  If this implies that it’s 1% caffeine that’s 4.5 mL of caffeine or 5500 mg of caffeine or the equivalent of 68 Red Bulls or 27 caffeine tablets, in other words just enough to kill an adult.  Should this bear [...]

OSR Webpage Usage

I integrated google analytics into the OSR page to see where people were going and hopefully create better navigation tools. I looked at the map showing usage patterns by locations and found this:

A near perfect T. Middle America (both horizontally and largely vertically) hates us.

OSR Webpage Usage

I integrated google analytics into the OSR page to see where people were going and hopefully create better navigation tools. I looked at the map showing usage patterns by locations and found this:

A near perfect T. Middle America (both horizontally and largely vertically) hates us.