Geeking with Greg

What caught my attention lately: Fun data: "How to tell someone's age when all you know is her name" ( [1] ) "The poss...

Project Euler is a simple and surprisingly good educational tool for a blend of computer science and math. Highly recommended. You are gi...

More of what has caught my attention lately: Excellent history of Google's love-hate relationship with management (hint: it's mos...

What has caught my attention lately: Dilbert on A/B testing: "Bend to my will and choose the orange button, you mindless click-puppet...

More of what caught my attention recently: Cool new tech, especially for mobile, detecting gesture movements from the changes they make to...

What caught my attention lately: Colorful description of Google's servers in 1999: "A thin layer of cork to protect the motherboa...

Wearable computing so far seems to be going after mimicking a tablet, but I wonder if the real success will be in augmented perception. Cur...

What caught my attention lately: Windows 8 has caused a big drop in PC sales to businesses, most of which has been picked up by Google Chr...

I just launched Game Maven from Crunchzilla . It’s a new interactive tutorial -- part of the series that includes Code Monster and Code M...

What caught my attention lately: Jeff Bezos on what innovators need: "A willingness to fail. A willingness to be misunderstood. And m...

I was wrong on Netflix. A few years ago, I saw their pricing changes (which overpriced DVD rentals) and streaming catalog changes (switchin...

What I found interesting lately: Xkcd on the halting problem: "Big picture .... all things must someday die" ( [1] ) "Your...

More of what I found interesting lately: The apparent philosophy of the design of biological processes: "Never refactor if you can i...

What has caught my attention lately: Lots of frequently updated, high resolution satellite images + automated object detection at massive ...

Google Reader is shutting down, but most people moved on long ago. Blogging is dead. To the extent that it lives, it is dominated by profe...

Again, it has been too long, but here you go, what has caught my attention lately: "Employees who ate at cafeteria tables designed fo...

It's been a while since I did a Quick Links post, so there's a lot to cover. Here's the latest of what has caught my attention:...