More evidence that poverty doesn’t stop innovation: The extremely cool blog AfriGadget, about how people with limited resources solve everyday problems with large amounts of ingenuity. Constrained optimisation at its finest!
For example, check out this home-made helicopter:

(HT: Signal vs Noise)

Check out this article in BusinessWeek about Twitter. The article itself is pretty ordinary, but look at the spectacular number of hyperlinks it contains. In fact, there are so many links that the article is hard to read and I gave up.
I was wondering why having too many links in an article can be bad. […]

Google spreadsheets has added forms, which allow web users to input data into a spreadsheet that you’ve created. This makes it perfect for running simple surveys. Here’s a quick run-down on how to do it:
First go to Google Docs and create an account if you haven’t already got one. Then make a new blank spreadsheet.
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