Recommended Reads for September 20, 2006
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PicksPlay has been running internal numbers — No surprise, it seems like there are elite sports play pickers. And it might just be the edge some betters are willing to pay for.
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MySpace meets its match with a crop of Web2.0 sites which focuses on holiness, rather than hotness. Sacrilicious! Thanks to Red Herring.
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Courtesy of Scientific American: A wonderful article on the whole matter of nature vs. nuture, regarding genius as told through an analysis of chess champions. Brilliant.
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Projector the size of sugar cube, story courtesy of the BBC. “The width of projector measures less than 16mm; its height and depth is 9mm.” The difference? A single mirror. Cool.
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For the 2.5 of you who don’t read Boing Boing: You can get business cards for kids! Bright colors, simple designs, coupled with pictures from Flickr with a laminate finish. Designer-licious!
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Digg gets the “How Stuff Works” once over. Flip over to page 2, where they go into an in depth of some of the behind the scenes stuff. Page 3: the controversy. Interesting perspectives.
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Another free font archive throws their hat into the free-font ring. Courtesy of BetterFonts.com. The interface is clean and remarkably free of ads (although there are a few). Slick.
