Delicious LiveJournal Links for 9-28-2010

[andrewducker]

• How death spirals work in ants. Amazing stuff.
  (tags: ants weird)
• A user’s guide to websites, part 1: If it wasn’t broken why fix it?
  (tags: development web webdesign design scaling)
• End of the Road for Xmarks
  (tags: bookmarks business xmarks)
• Next has a 10" Android laptop on its site. For £180. WTF?
  (tags: android tablet weird)
• How wrong can you be? A couple of examples of just how extreme innacuracy can be.
  (tags: learning wrong)
• This is a news website article about a scientific finding - a marvellous satire of science reporting
  (tags: science journalism parody guardian reporting)
• More details on the £6Bn that the UK is letting Vodafone off with
  (tags: tax mobile_phones vodafone uk)
• Taxman let Vodafone off £6bn bill. Asbolutely fucking unbelievable.
  (tags: tax uk vodafone)

Comments

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

The trick in being wrong is to cover your back.

I remember a 1st-year undergrad astronomy practical where I ended up estimating the mass of the Sun at around 10³⁰Kg +/- 10³¹Kg. There may have been a slight error in the error calculation :)

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

One of my A level maths teachers introduced us to the concept of Swayle's Constant.

It's a value you add to your answer which is automatically the amount it needs to be to make the answer correct.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

The website changes and scaling article is very good :)