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Puzzle #85: Take an extra base
In honor of the ongoing MLB playoffs, here’s a puzzle about baseball. Encoded in the scorecard above is a word or phrase that describes something we all hope to see at a game. Can you tell what it is?
(Note: I’ve simplified the scorecard a little bit to make it easier to read. Apologies to all the purists.)
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Rolf Hut wants to inspire his students to tinker, so when he recognized the need for accurate rain measurements in rural Africa, he told them to go build a rain gauge. Rolf literally makes it rain onstage to prove how well this cheap and durable rain gauge works — and calls on all of us to tinker…
The events, tensions & trends that Stratfor expects to shape the world in 2012.
Latin America | Africa | Asia-Pacific | Europe | Middle East | Fmr Soviet Union
Watch these now & you’ll be equipped to sound smart for the rest of the year.
Our good friends at HiiDef just launched a new app that has been in beta for awhile, Flavors.me. This is an excellent tool that has a great, simple, and usable design.
What’s the value preposition of Flavors.me? It’s to unify your various “online identities” into a single,…
One longtime campaign manager said a system like Votizen could become a powerful tool. “On the surface it seems like a great gold mine of data” and could be “a terrific advancement in voter contact,” said Steven Glazer, the vice mayor of Orinda who managed Jerry Brown’s successful 2010 gubernatorial campaign. “For all the junk we invest in, that person-to-person contact is always the most persuasive, and if it comes from a friend, doubly so.”
…Mr. Dufty, the 56-year-old former San Francisco supervisor, is a believer in the tool. In an interview, he said Votizen will “absolutely” get him more votes. “I haven’t asked volunteers…to knock on strangers’ doors,” he said. “Instead, I’ve said, ‘You can tap into your social network and help me ID voters.’ “
One of our mantras here at Fab.com is “Hire Smarter.” This stems from the early days of the company when Bradford and I did pretty much everything ourselves and we laid out a mission to hire people who are better at what they do than the two of us ever could be.
I’m now ready to make a really…
Published by Harald Ponce de Leon
We had a fantastic meet-up in London last Friday - I’d like to thank everyone again for the great evening. It was great meeting with team members again and meeting community members around London for the first time!
I arrived in London on Wednesday and had a hotel in Paddington. The hotels here…
This was a banner week for Android news as Steve Wozniak’s statements about the increasingly popular Android system took several spots on our list. Add some helpful hints to excel in the workplace, awe-inspiring photos, and science news and you have your weekend reading list. Make sure you…
A solid article about the effect of companies being run by M.B.A.s vs. engineers or product people.
It’s interesting to note that the one area of the U.S. economy that’s adding jobs and increasing productivity and wealth is also the one that is the most relentlessly product- and consumer-focused: Silicon Valley. The company off Highway 101 that best illustrates this point is, of course, Apple. The only time Apple ever lost the plot was when it put the M.B.A.s in charge.
