What leads to success?

Here is another great talk from TED: It a 3 minutes answer to the question "What leads to success?". It can be summarize by the picture below:

The full video description followed by the YouTube link is below:

Why do people succeed? An unmissable 3-min. talk from the TED Conference on the real secrets of success (Hint: [...]

The very serious Financial Times published on his web site a few days ago this call for advice:

I work in an advertising agency and my boss (who is quite cool) has just asked to be my friend on Facebook. I feel invaded - I’m passionate about my work but want to keep it separate from [...]

Popularity dialer

The popularity dialer is a web service designed to simulate phone call:
With "The Popularity Dialer", you can plan ahead. Via a web interface, you can choose to have your phone called at a particular time (or several times). At the elected time, your phone will be dialed and you will hear a prerecorded message that’s [...]

Differences between Nerds and Geeks

InformIT published an interesting article that highlights the difference between Nerds and Geeks. First I reproduce below the definitions:

Geek: 1: a carnival performer often billed as a wild man whose act usually includes biting the head off a live chicken or snake; 2: a person often of an intellectual bent who is disapproved of.
Nerd: perhaps [...]