Geek Humour

Here is a list of some cartoons I find quite popular for no reason in fellow geeks

1) PHD Comics

2) www.XKCD.com

3) SAVAGE CHICKENS

4) Good Old Dilbert

5)

Calvin and Hobbes

I may have missed a few- but it is notable the appeal of cartoons seems disproprtionate in techie cultures more than normal.

What’s your favourite cartoon or source of humour?

(All individual copyrights acknowledged)

Wordle.net

Here is some cool visualization of words of a poem I wrote .

Courtesy tools at Wordle.net

Here is a link to the underlying words of the Extroverted Engineer

http://decisionstats.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/poem-the-extroverted-engineer/

Movie Review: Between the Folds

This is an amazing movie on the art and science of origami, with great insights from people of all backgrounds, especially scientists who devoted a considerable amount of time to create wonderful shapes of art. An Award winning documentary, it looks at the truly amazing things one can do with a piece of paper, from creating wonderful sculptures to even research in proteins interaction and crash test bags.

Recommended for a light 1 hour session when you want to get away and be inspired and have your creative juices unblocked.

source-

http://www.greenfusefilms.com/index.html

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Predictive Analytics World

PAWS is coming this time to the Bay Area in two weeks. It is also almost coming at the same time as the conference Big Data Summit so SF bound conference attendees can probably do both.

Source

http://www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com/register.php

Big Data Summit- Bay Area

This event takes place next month in the relatively warm Bay Area.

The event takes place at

http://www.bigdatasummit.com/2010/sanfrancisco/

SAS Global Forum: Academic Invites

In a series of posts on forthcoming, first and foremost is the SAS Global Conference which is giving away 20 invites to Students and also seperately to Faculty. This conference is based in Seattle and is from April 11-14

Source-

http://www.sas.com/images/email/c17650/finalhtml.html

Oracle Data Mining 11 G R2

Source -

http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/bi/odm/index.html

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T Shirts Design

Some T Shirts I drew for a contest for SAS. ( of course thanks to http://zazzle.com you can create T Shirts for almost any product as well). Also try http://scribd.com it has slightly better social media integration the slideshare.net

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My new Page Ajay @Arts

My New Page Arts @Ajay is now online at http://decisionstats.wordpress.com/privacy-3/ajay-arts/

and shows some of my left brain ( or was it right brain) activity including three books of poems, 1 cartoon book, 4-5 T Shirt designs, one collage and links to my short video collection on YouTube

ps- I was supposed to blog once a week, but I thought what the … let me make it two times a week.

Automated Content Aggregation

Here is a way to create Content Aggregator-

1) Create a Google Alert for keywords (like say MapReduce and Hadoop)

at http://google.com/alerts

2) Create a WordPress.com free blog and enable the Auto Post by Email Feature (using manage my blogs in Settings- Reading in Left Bottom Margin). This creates an email with random numbers that can enable you for sending emails and thus auto posting.

3) Create an Email Filter in your Gmail Account to auto forward this to the post by Email Account

Note you can thus create an auto aggregator and pick and choose for creating a Keyword specific or domain specific newsletter. It is all free and takes 15 minutes to set up, and is then automated.