Friday, January 25th, 2008
Data Visualization: Books that Make You Dumb

Virgil Griffith has put together an interesting data correlation: books and SAT scores. His goal: find out which books make you dumber. Check out his website to see the results: Booksthatmakeyoudumb Ever read a book (required or otherwise) and upon finishing it thought to yourself, “Wow. That was terrible. I totally feel dumber after reading […]

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
Computer Security Q&A With Bruce Schneier

I finally caught up with my Freakonomics Blog reading. I found the Q&A session with security guru Bruce Schneier to be the most interesting of the last 2 weeks. He answered a ton of questions, and gave very detailed responses, with lots of supplementary links. This is definitely not dry, techie/hacker security talk – Bruce […]