September 22, 2013
'Twerk' Sashays Into Oxford's Online Dictionary, 'Srsly'

oupacademic:

What do jorts, cake pops, and twerking have in common? All have been added to Oxford Dictionaries Online! Mark Memmott of NPR’s The Two-Way shows off his new vocabulary.

An old phrase “pixie cut” and a very new word “MOOC” were added last month. Interesting.

http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2013/08/new-words-august-2013/

I thought pixie cut has drawn people’s interest because of Carey Mulligan and Anne Hathaway’s recent works, but Google Trends suggests that Beyonce is the top influencer.

http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=pixie+cut#q=pixie%20cut&cmpt=q

http://blog.zap2it.com/pop2it/2013/08/beyonce-debuts-blonde-pixie-haircut-on-instagram.html

September 18, 2013
"For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don’t believe, no proof is possible."

quote by Stuart Chase (American economist and engineer)

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/167757-for-those-who-believe-no-proof-is-necessary-for-those

I heard it for the first time in an episode of TV show “Criminal Minds” and I liked it. “Yes, that’s really true!”

I didn’t even know of him and zapped around through the articles about him.

I couldn’t find the source of the quote, but I found that “New Deal”, the name of Franklin Roosevelt’s economic program in the United States, is said to be borrowed from the title of Chase’s book “A New Deal”.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Chase

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal#cite_note-16

There is a big chasm between those who believe and those who don’t.

I will remember not to try to prove something to people in an attempt to make them believe.

September 18, 2013
vogue:

Alexander Wang Spring 2014
Photo: Yannis Vlamos/Indigitalimages.com
Click here for the full collection and review. 

Cool.
I found this on today&#8217;s printed edition of Yomiuri Shinbun.
http://www.alexanderwang.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parental_Advisory

vogue:

Alexander Wang Spring 2014

Photo: Yannis Vlamos/Indigitalimages.com

Click here for the full collection and review.

Cool.

I found this on today’s printed edition of Yomiuri Shinbun.

http://www.alexanderwang.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parental_Advisory

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September 8, 2013

Download GeoGebra files from Google Drive

trigonometric_function1.ggb

trigonometric_function2.ggb

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September 8, 2013

variety of fox calls

July 4, 2013
nbcnews:

‘Normal’ Barbie uses real women’s measurements
(Photo: Nickolay Lamm / MyDeals.com)
Meet “normal” Barbie: She’s not impossibly tall and skinny, but instead created in the proportions of the average 19-year-old American woman.
More from TODAY

Interesting application of 3D printing.

nbcnews:

‘Normal’ Barbie uses real women’s measurements

(Photo: Nickolay Lamm / MyDeals.com)

Meet “normal” Barbie: She’s not impossibly tall and skinny, but instead created in the proportions of the average 19-year-old American woman.

More from TODAY

Interesting application of 3D printing.

(Source: TODAY.com)

June 30, 2013
What Neil & Buzz Left on the Moon - NASA Science

What I thought of as a single plate of mirror (what a childish idea!) is actually “a 2-foot wide panel studded with 100 mirrors pointing at Earth”.

A laser pulse shoots out of a telescope on Earth, crosses the Earth-moon divide, and hits the array. Because the mirrors are “corner-cube reflectors,” they send the pulse straight back where it came from.

June 30, 2013

The distance is measured by laser and a mirror set on the moon.

June 23, 2013
I can&#8217;t see the super moon this year (2013), because the sky has been overcast.
Photo by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

I can’t see the super moon this year (2013), because the sky has been overcast.

Photo by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

June 1, 2013
Learning Apple’s pricing

Camera compromise makes Apple’s new 16GB iPod Touch a mixed bag (CNET Reviews)

With only $70 separating the drab, one-eyed 16GB iPod Touch from the colorful 32GB model, choosing the lesser of the two is not only cheap, but foolish. Doubling the storage capacity alone is worth the extra $70; the camera and the 1080p video recorder merely sweeten the deal.

This pricing seems very clever because it helps make customers to choose pricier products with a feeling of buying at reasonable prices.

 

It’s your classic movie theater soda dilemma.

Very impressive metaphor.

 

The extra $70 to buy the 32GB model with the rear camera is money well spent. And even then, you might be foolish not to spend another $30 ($329 total) for an iPad Mini.

Oh, this is how Apple induces customers to buy more expensive products (and makes them “happy”)!

I’m curious about how other companies are doing the same thing.

I strongly hope Abenomics won’t follow this way.

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