Monday Night Football (regular season) hasn’t started yet, and book group is going on in the other room, so time for me to clean out the inbox with the various links I’ve been meaning to comment on.
- Jakob on log-log charts didn’t live up to the interesting headline “Data Visualization of Web Stats: Logarithmic Charts and the Drooping Tail.”
- Adults in DVR Households Read More, Surf More and Watch TV More (August 17, 2006) – Headline says it all, but there’s more data there. FYI, we’re a TiVo Nielsen household, although I’m not supposed to mention that. I hope our off-schedule viewing of Premier League soccer, Dora the Explorer, Life on Mars (great new show from the BBC), Grey’s Anatomy, The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, and Sharpe’s Waterloo throws their statisticians for a loop.
- David Foster Wallace (of Infinite Jest fame) in the NYTimes on “Federer As Religious Experience” is already behind the pay-wall. But maybe I should re-read Infinite Jest at some point.
- The intro post to Project Anvil intrigues me. My slowness in actually reading the long-saved link until now means that the August-long project is nearing completion, so I have an entire month to catch up on. Not tonight.
- Actual lessons from Kiko, which I’m reading after all the hype and the (unbelievable) news that someone seems to have paid more than $250K for the remnants of Kiko. Like everyone else, I’ll be curious to learn the buyer, and how much of the purchase was simply for a four-character domain name. Otherwise… code without the developers??
- Someone else learns the glory of reading John McPhee. I want to read his newest, on delivery companies.
- Have not checked yet to see whether our battery is subject to recall.
- Pageviews are obsolete (for me, via David Galbraith, although I saw it elsewhere later) — Measurement in the most data-intensive media environment the world has ever known still hasn’t settled down.
- I’ve paid for a Fastmail membership, but I haven’t yet moved my MX records over for pencoyd.com. The point? Better webmail, for me and my wife. Guess which is more important?