I am looking for advice. I am thinking of starting a blog about my fermentation experiments. In particular, I am dreadfully proud of dill pickles that are finally ready. So, the question is : do I use blogger or wordpress? Any thoughts ( Read more... )

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This reminds me of why I haven't yet upgraded :
http://www.xkcd.com/349/

I came across Terence Tao's weblog recently. I am incredibly impressed with it ( Read more... )

A few months ago, I was expressing my disgust with textbook publishers. Since then, I have been proposing the development of a wikipedia-like resource for basic things like linear algebra and calculus to anyone who had the misfortune to talk with me.

It seems that Rice University has beat me to it. Connexions provides an "environment" for the ( Read more... )

Mercer has released its 2007 rankings of cities by quality of life index. The two top slots went to Zurich and Geneva.

The highest ranked cities in North America were Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Calgary.

(In case you were curious as to where it is.)

They can't deliver on their promises ( Read more... )

I discovered last night, while using iodine as a disinfectant, that gold and iodine shouldn't be put into contact with each other ( Read more... )