posts from august, 2007
“A President Besieged and Isolated, Yet at Ease” (2,950 words) describes the private meetings of a deeper Bush. I thought it was fiction at first, but in the end, it’s actual reporting. It says a lot on the psyche of our president.
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In 1992, Robin Dunbar proposed that the theoretical maximum number of sustainable, meaningful relationships any one person can have is, on average, 147.8. However, the standard deviation is humongous.
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YouTube could be much larger
Saturday, August 25th, 2007, 7:48 pm EDT
YouTube uses letters, numbers, and underscores in their eleven-character video IDs. This means they have enough potential IDs to support as many as 62,050,608,388,552,823,487 videos. That’s sixty-two quintillion videos (or trillion outside of America). Even considering something like one percent of those aren’t copyrighted, that’s still a lot of possible time to waste. Hopefully their new ads (792 words) won’t help to prevent them from ever reaching this potential. ∞