Exasperated Calculator

Category: Quickhit

  • Time to waste?

    [Here’s 100 free games to run through](http://downloadfullversionpcgames.com/blog/2007/06/17/100-of-the-best-legal-full-version-games-you-can-download-online/).

  • DIY Ice Cream

    [Make your own ice cream the easy way](http://www.boingboing.net/2007/06/08/supereasy_baggie_ice.html).

  • Fighting illegal posters

    [A very clever way to fight illegal posters](http://www.boingboing.net/2007/06/08/city_fights_illegal_.html).

  • Parking culture

    [A fascinating description of the parking culture in New York](http://www.personism.com/2007/06/15/parking/).

  • Approval ratings

    [US presidential ratings back to 1946](http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/info-presapp0605-31.html).

  • Book to movie

    [Some authors pick their favourites](http://bookforum.org/inprint/issue=200703&id=257).

  • Profit maximisation

    Ticket scalping has always puzzled me – why can’t they just get the price right in the first place? [Now TicketMaster has an auction service that might just fix that](http://www.ticketmaster.com.au/ticketauctions).

  • More Wikipedia bias

    A nice summary of [the pro-nerd bias of Wikipedia](http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/07/wikipedias-huge-nerd-bias/).

  • What explains terrorism?

    Bruce Schneir explores [the incompetence of most recent attempted terrorists](http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/06/portrait_of_the.html).

  • Today’s pretty picture

    Pictures made from [the patterns of air traffic movements in the US](http://users.design.ucla.edu/~akoblin/work/faa/index.html).