A pathetic edit job on “Zach” Johnson (pga.com fail)

I don’t see how this stuff gets by supposed professionals. This is from the pga.com website:

Evidently nobody reads this stuff before posting it. I can see how “Zack” can happen; it’s a real name. But htf does “Aach” make it in? Even a pedestrian spell checker like Word 2007 tried to change it to – you guessed [...]

WHO – Phase 5 alert: Pandemic is imminent

Influenza A(H1N1) update from the WHO website as of 2009-04-30.:

In nature, influenza viruses circulate continuously among animals, especially birds. Even though such viruses might theoretically develop into pandemic viruses, in Phase 1 no viruses circulating among animals have been reported to cause infections in humans.

No mail delivery today due to a mere 6″ of snow

“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night …” has long been the U.S. Postal Service’s credo when it comes to delivering the mail. Today, the snow was too deep or something, because the lame ass-ed USPS did not come around. Must be nice.  *I* made it into the office; I don’t have [...]

!Vote Here! New Version of Windows Live Hotmail Sucks

Tell me you noticed how crappy the new interface is. It’s embarassing to think this is professionally developed content. They tried to blow it off by saying it’s better:

A cleaner, more customizable look
Up to 70% faster access to your email
Easier access to your Windows Live Hotmail contacts

And yet this is what they delivered:

It’s bunk. Back [...]

Color crisis: how does blue become brown??

Lately I have been diving into color theory and its related topics. I first became interested in color as a grad student in Psychology while at OSU as a result of a physiological psych class I took. One of the topics it covered was the low-level functions of the fovea (the “cone” cells in our retina). [...]