M and I performed a double-blind study of four kinds of water. Our preferences agreed, in order: purified water, filtered tap water, natural spring water, and unfiltered tap water.
(I know the labels here don’t make sense. They were the first four Greek letters I could recall.)
Working on a variation of Settlers of Catan called Vineyards of Catan.
Mayfair Games has blank tiles and replacement card packs. Current plan is to print out vineyard tiles and wine cards on sticker paper to stick on the blank tiles and replacement cards.
Progress updates to follow.
Found this fun bug in IE6 today. If you have a text input and submit input unassociated with a form, then submitting the text input (by hitting return or enter when focused) will cause a click event on the submit input.
The solution is simple and intuitive: eliminate unassociated submit inputs and submit buttons.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/DTD/strict.dtd">
<input type="text"/>
<input type="submit" onclick="this.value='clicked';" />
I found this today on University between 10th and Vermont in San Diego.
This afternoon I made a custom stylesheet and script to format Wikipedia nicely for me when I am logged on from my iPhone. If you have a Wikipedia account, you can easily use them by adding them to your own monobook.css and monobook.js. Screenshots below.
While searching for a list of unwatched articles in Wikipedia (which isn’t published as far as I can tell), I found the category of hidden categories. Interestingly, the “hidden categories” category itself is not a hidden category[1].
[1] Wikipedia Signpost: Role of hidden categories under discussion
Imagine for a moment that you were a point in multidimensional space, and your nearby neighbors in this space are people that share your preferences for restaurants, bars, and clubs. In this model, a bar you like is very near to you (e.g., by a Euclidean metric), while some place you hate is far away.
This model rules Yelp. A review on yelp is a measurement of the distance between the reviewer and the reviewed. The review will be favorable if and only if the reviewer is nearby the reviewed in the model.
A restaurant (e.g., Bite) gets good reviews because the people that review it know or can guess, before they go there, that they will like it. If they didn’t, the place wouldn’t have such stellar reviews.
So why do some places get terrible reviews? I see cases that would cause this. First, if a new nightclub (e.g., Universal) is still “figuring itself out,” it might attract a lot of people expecting one thing and getting another. In other words, they are not near the place in the model, but they visit it anyway because they think they might. Likely, because the place is so new, many people are testing it out, so you can expect the reviews to be unfavorable, even by the people who are supposed to like it, because the presence of outsiders ruins the whole experience.
In another case, a super-exclusive bar might only cater to a very narrow range of clientele. In other words, you have to be unusually close to this bar in the model in order to like it. Perhaps it only supports one or two cliques of regulars, and everyone else is shunned.
In this example, the radii correspond to the ability of a bar or restaurant to support a wide or narrow section of people.