Oliver Thylmann’s Thoughts

Google has a nice little bookmarklet hidden away in the Goodies section of your Google Reader preferences. It adds a nice little link to your bookmarks bar called “Next >>”. What does it do? It opens the next unread item in your Google Reader, but not on the reader itself, but the site that the post came from, the permanent url. It’s a totally different way to use your Feed Reader and a very nice one at that. And once you are done, Google gives you a very nice page.

P.S.: I am currently starting to wonder if they are putting ads in those “Next” items from time to time. I just ended up on a Dell page. Interesting.

Just found Get a First Life via MIT Advertising Lab. It’s pretty simple. Go outside, it’s free, and there are over 6 billion members already! Got any more questions? The have an FAQ for things like:

• Are five senses enough?
• What’s this body thing, and what do I do with the dangly bits?
• Why can’t I build a dirigible with my mind?
• Penguins, spoons and you — what’s life like among the flightless?

So go there. As they say: First Life is a 3D analog world where server lag does not exist.

Damn cool!

Or no one actually. In an article on Spiegel, they give out the solution from Costas Efthimious, physics professor from the University of Central Florida. It’s actually pretty simple. Presuming the first vampire appeared 1st of January 1600 and we have a world population of 536.870.911 people (it was roughly 500 million back then), we would all be vampires now.

Why that? We already know that vampires need to bite people to get their blood and those people become vampires themselves. Easy enough. So let’s further presume that a vampire needs to bite one person per month. The first one then had a friend on 1st of February 1600. On the first of March 1600 there were already 4 vampires in the world. 29 months later (2^29) there would be no normal human beings left.

There you have it. You can sleep well. There are no vampires or they have a very low need for blood. Of course if we think that they only bite one person per 10 years, we might still have a few humans left, because due to maths, this really scales best at the end. Think what you will.

Weird Al - White and Nerdy. Hilarious.

Amazing speech by Stephen Colbert at the White House Correspondents Dinner. Listen how the laughing gets a little less during the talk. Check it out.

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