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The Theory of Interstellar Trade is a paper written in 1978 by economist Paul Krugman. He described the paper as something he wrote to cheer himself up when he was an oppressed assistant professor, caught up in the academic rat race.

By the time kids are 18, they will have seen 100,000 beer ads
Alcohol advertising increases alcohol consumption
Alcohol advertising is aimed at underaged children
Alcohol producers advertise to get people to drink more

Seam Carving is a new image resizing method introduced in 2007 by Ariel Shamir and Shai Avidan. On the right you can watch Shamir & Avidan's famous presentation video Advanced Image Resizing which gives you a comprehensive impression about the principe and application of the Seam Carving method. This video and the author's original paper can be found at http://www.seamcarving.com.

The Digital Image Resizer Toy (codename: DIRT) is an implementation of Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir's "Seam Carving for Content Aware Image Resizing" algorithms. Their algorithms have been made famous via a video labelled "Advanced Image Resizing". In case you haven't seen it, I recommend you watch it before reading any further.

Scientific publishing is broken. Most published research findings are false (spare the ironic citation joke, please). What to do? Stimulus money is needed, that much is sure. We must form committees! Establish a National Council for the Validity of Published Research. Let’s get some NASA-level bureaucracy up in this piece. We need protocols and fact checking and procedures and theorem checking widgets! I’ll spearhead this beast. Pay me $420,000 a year of public tax money, please.
I have a better idea.
Publish. Less.

The popular Windows XP PowerToy, ImageResizer, has recently been updated to support Windows 7. Like it sounds, this tool lets you quickly resize a selection of multiple images at once. It’s was typically used in the past to compress photos to more manageable sizes for sharing via email (although that’s not necessary anymore since Windows Live Mail does this for you). Now, it’s more likely to be used to compress photos down for use on your web page or blog.

"They'll stop going to the company picnic if it becomes an occasion for everyone to list all the computer problems they never bothered to mention before."

"They'll stop going to the company picnic if it becomes an occasion for everyone to list all the computer problems they never bothered to mention before."

The slide rule, also known colloquially as a slipstick,[1] is a mechanical analog computer. The slide rule is used primarily for multiplication and division, and also for "scientific" functions such as roots, logarithms and trigonometry, but is not normally used for addition or subtraction.

We're gluttons for infographics, and a team at Kansas State just served up a feast: maps of sin created by plotting per-capita stats on things like theft (envy) and STDs (lust). Christian clergy, likely noting the Bible Belt's status as Wrath Central, question the "science." Valid point—or maybe it's just the pride talking.