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Friday Five

It’s been a couple of weeks since I did one. Here we go again…

1. What food do you like that most people hate?
Hmm, I’m not sure there are any. I love a really nicely roasted spaghetti squash with butter and salt. Do people hate spaghetti squash?

2. What food do you hate that most people love?
Onions. Do they count as a food?

3. What famous person, whom many people may find attractive, is most unappealing to you?
I think Janeane Garofalo is pretty good looking. Don’t know how many others do.

4. What famous person, whom many people may find unappealing, do you find attractive?
Well, Pam Anderson does absolutely nothing for me.

5. What popular trend baffles you?
Reality TV. Why are these pseudo-reality shows so popular? Survivor, Bachelor ad nauseum, Real World, etc. Ugh, just give me some good escapist TV or sitcoms. That’s why I watch TV anyway. When I want reality, I just watch the news.

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Saving Bandwidth

Just putting this here so I remember it when I get to work.

Saving Bandwidth

WebCompression.org

Bandwidth Conservation…it’s not just for the bandwidth challenged.

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What are people doing here?

My ‘People Visited From’ block (courtesy VisitorLocation) has been up for a little while now showing where the last 6 or 7 people have surfed in from since the last rebuild. Some of them are from pretty far away places: Australia, Iran, Peru, The Netherlands. Most are from the US. So it makes me wonder…how do people make their way here? How did they find this little blog of mine and what are they looking for that brings them here? I see a lot of Google and Yahoo! referrals in the logs. What do they think of what they find here? Not many of them leave comments, so they’re all just silent visitors.

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More Blogshares

Hey, somebody over at Geek Rants bought shares in my blog!

So what happens if somebody comes along and snaps up a majority or all the shares in your blog? Do they own your blog? Does that give them decision making power over your blog or what you write in it? Do you have to have shareholder meetings?

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IoP Book Sale

If you’re in the market for some physics related books, the Institute of Physics is having a huge book sale. Books are discounted up to 75%, so if they have a text you’ve been eyeing for a while, but have been putting off because it’s too expensive, see if it’s one the books on sale. The list of books sorted by title (which I’m browsing through now) is 18 pages long, so there are plenty of books to choose from. Lots of proceedings, lots of hardcore physics books, and a bunch of general interest books. The sale ends Dec 31, so go check it out!