Exasperated Calculator: Star Trek & Economics
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15/3
Weight: 111.0kg Breakfast: Lunch: Dinner: Snacks: Total Calories: Exercise: Ladder:
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Would I have bought Enron?
I just finished reading a couple of books on the share market, in particular about the early 2000s frauds by Worldcom and Enron: [A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market](http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMathematician-Plays-Stock-Market%2Fdp%2F0465054803&tag=exaspercalcul-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325) and [The Smartest Guys in the Room](http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSmartest-Guys-Room-Amazing-Scandalous%2Fdp%2F1591840082&tag=exaspercalcul-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325). The question that struck me while reading the books (particularly the Enron one) was whether or not I would…
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Look out, George Lucas
[Make your own “Star Wars” opening sequence](http://alienryderflex.com/crawl/), including the Fox & Lucasfilm logos (which you can edit to be other things). ([Via](http://feeds.tuaw.com/~r/weblogsinc/tuaw/~3/80200907/))
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How to store shoes
[A rolodex for shoes](http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/80465024/shoe_rolodex.html).
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Today’s papercraft
[Make your own plane](http://www.currell.net/models/mod_free.htm), including [Concorde](http://www.currell.net/models/concorde.htm) and [Space Ship One](http://www.currell.net/models/ss1.htm). ([Via](http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/01/paper_craft_mod.html))
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A better alarm clock
Ever find that alarm clocks don’t work for you? Well, if [Clocky](http://nandahome.com/products.clocky.html) doesn’t help, maybe [you need an alarm clock with random error built in](http://davidseah.com/archives/2007/01/17/a-chindogu-clock-for-procrastinators/). ([Via](http://crookedtimber.org/2007/01/24/probabilistic-alarm-clock/))
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Great moments in security
Someone managed to copy the master key for electronic voting machines [by copying a picture from the company’s website](http://www.boingboing.net/2007/01/25/diebold_voting_machi.html).
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14/3
Weight: 109.8kg Breakfast: Weetbix Lunch: Pizza Rolls Dinner: Mince with Pesto Snacks: none Total Calories: 1558kCal Exercise: none Ladder: none
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Getting organised
I have, just recently, become something of a devotee (albeit one with a bit of practice needed yet) of [David Allen](http://www.davidco.com/)’s “Getting Things Done” method. What I like about it is that, unlike most of the Stephen Covey like approaches to organising your life, it can cope with the kind of ‘creative chaos’ that most…
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Global warming and the wheat belt
The [changing pattern of plant-growth regions](http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BradDelongsSemi-dailyJournal/~3/79782721/global_warming_.html) in the US over the last decade and a half.