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Something’s rotten at Annapolis
Did the CFO at the Naval Academy think he’d never get audited? I think football made him and the Superintendent stupid. Tip from Phi Beta Cons. Update (19 July). More details here. Read more
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The Ultimate Checklist
The Instapundit blogged it as a disaster prep checklist. Wrong! It’s a take-control-of-your-life checklist. Read more
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Cross-disciplinary goodness
John Cook explains the Lincoln Index, which is the software engineer’s name for the Petersen capture-recapture estimator (also called the Lincoln-Petersen model). Read more
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No gringos need apply
Poor white farmboys aren’t too welcome in the Ivy League. One thing I really like about UTSA is our strong support for Army and Air Force ROTC and a BIG military community. My favorite sections are those with ROTC and GIs in them; the teeners mind their P’s and Q’s around classmates who are grownups. Read more
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…and ranked dead last in Information Graphics
Clearly no one in the Ed Psych department help design the pie charts for the School of Education at University of Michigan. Whoever did these doesn’t understand pies. If this is what gets good rankings from US News and World Report, I’d say their rankings are crap. Have they never learned falsus in uno falsus Read more
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How to fail an online course
Sadly, some students in my classroom courses act like this, too. Tip from Phi Beta Cons. Read more
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These are not the spies you are looking for
Jon McCloone has a nifty Mathematica program demonstrating digital steganography over at the Wolfram Blog. With a subtle nod to the Urban Chicken Movement. Read more
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83,000 waiting to die
Why not have a policy that saves lives and $8 billion a year? Tip from the Instapundit. Read more
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Here come some fancy webpages!
Information visualization using the web’s universally-available language: JavaScript! Tip from Flowing Data. Read more
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