September 2013
Non-Chemical Warfare: Violence Continues in Syria
Information entropy
Anatomy of a bicycle - anthonyoram
IBM Smarter Enterprise - U.S. Open Case Study - United States
The Tale of the Three Brothers
via Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows
Half the US population lives in 146 counties
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](http://www.businessinsider.com/half-of-the-united-states-lives-in-these-counties-2013-9) Map via Census/Business Insider
People like to live live near other people. Out of the 3,000+ counties in the United States, 146 contain half the population. So much for the 80/20 rule. It doesn’t seem to apply to population distribution.
How to disappear (from the web)
Creating new accounts for web services is easy. Getting rid of those accounts…not so much.
JustDelete.Me offers an expansive directory of links to pages where you can delete your accounts from various websites and services. In addition to pointing you to the pages, it also rates each service by the level of effort required to delete the account.
Inbox Whack-a-Mole
Maintaining inbox zero is like a game of whack-a-mole. For every email deleted, organized, or responded to, another one pops up in its place. However, that only happens if your email is always open. By just opening up email and responding to it at set times during the day, you can process messages in batches and be much more productive. When you finish, close your email, and get to work.
I don’t have to check email as much these days as I have in the past, but I check it anyway if it’s open. I check it even when there’s nothing new in there. Ideally, there could be a notification when the inbox has 10 new items, or email could launch automatically two hours from the time I closed it.
Nice try, Facebook
Is this a deceptive or just poorly worded error message? Also the ‘Visit Website’ link is broken. I’m pretty sure there’s some way to get Twitter working on my phone. The other apps at the bottom of the page work just fine.
Twitter and Facebook don’t have to play nice together, but if Facebook is going to show Twitter in its App Store, it should probably just let Twitter tell its users if if works on my phone or not. Getting into the habit of telling your users what your competitors are capable of is often bound to make you look like you don’t know what you’re talking about.
