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Compendium of Links #8

Happy almost-Easter, everyone! Iā€™ll be off to my grandpaā€™s house tomorrow for a wonderful day of extended family getting-together. Iā€™m looking forward to eating up a good many of my auntā€™s fantastic homemade rolls, too. So, without further ado, a number of links for your Easter perusalā€¦

What Iā€™ve learnt about Twitter after 1000 tweets ā€“ Since just one more tweet will bring my own tweet-count to 1000, I Googled ā€œ1000th tweetā€ and this was the first result. A rather interesting one, too, though written more from a business angle.

55 Ways to Have Fun with Google (PDF) ā€“ Gosh, somebody had waaaaay too much time on his hands. But the result, though now outdated, still contains some interesting ways to waste time, such as egogoogling (to which Iā€™m no strangerā€”itā€™s the ā€œGoogle your name and ā€˜isā€™ and see what comes upā€ game), making a pictorial alphabet from Google Images results, and googling random proverbs and seeing what theyā€™ve been applied to. (This link if the first doesnā€™t work properly.)

Why We Buy: How to avoid 10 costly cognitive biases ā€“ ā€œWe all make mistakes with moneyā€¦ But many of these mistakes are avoidable if we can understand how we think about money. Here are 10 biases that psychological research has shown affect our judgment.ā€ Of course, it includes ā€œfree!ā€ as one of them. (Via my cousin.)

And, in honor of our risen King, who Iā€™m sure has a sense of humor:

This has been shown multiple times, in class, by the same prof who showed ā€œDarmokā€ in class too.

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