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Embedding Picasa Album Slideshow On Your Facebook Profile
Do you have a Picasa Web Album and would like to share it on your Facebook profile? You can use the Picasa Gallery Slideshow application…
Too Many Choices Ruin The Sale
In his book “Blink,” Malcolm Gladwell describes an experiment where a store that offered over twenty different types of jam sold significantly less jam than…
Where Do You Want To Go Today?
That was Microsoft’s famous slogan some years ago, but very soon that may be the question your car asks you, as soon as you get…
Book Review: "Blink" by Malcom Gladwell
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell This is Malcolm Gladwell‘s second book after “The Tipping Point.” In The Tipping Point, Gladwell writes…
Have Telepresence, Will Work-From-Home
Working from home using Telepresence can be greener than you’d imagine! From Dilbert.com Feb, 22, 2009.
A Wii-like Robot Controller Using Lego Mindstorms Sensors
I found this cool video demonstrating how to build a Wii-like remote control using Mindstorms NXT sensors. This project uses the compass and acceleration sensors…
Did Research Fundings Influence Economic Policies?
In my post Irrational Economics, I quoted some surprising observations from an article in The Atlantic titled “Dismal scientists: how the crash is reshaping economics.”…
The Crisis Of Credit Visualized
A video is worth a thousand words. Here is what I just found — a great visualization that shows what led to the financial fiasco:
The Reality Of Virtual Reality
Do you remember your very first experience with virtual reality? Was it the flight simulator that you played on your PC? Or that car racing…
Irrational Economics
Ever since I stumbled upon the book Predictably Irrational, I have been fascinated by the field of behavioral economics. I have looked for other books…