Jim Schrempp 2010 Posts

More about this programme: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wgq0l Hans Rosling's famous lectures combine enormous quantities of public data with a sport's commentator's style to reveal the story of the world's past, present and future development. Now he explores stats in a way he has never done

Cucina Rustica Italiana - Since 1980 Cafè Roma has been creating a colorful gastronomic history ...in San Luis Obispo. Our restaurant is located in the historic Railroad Square of San Luis Obispo, near the train station. This location is just 2 minutes from downtown and very close to Cal Poly's world class Performing Arts Center. Our new location features a banquet room for large groups as well as special events and an extensive wine cellar. We are in the heart of California's central coast wine country. In our twenty years we have created many nationally recognized recipes and present a Wine Spectator award winning wine list. Take a peek and you will find top California and Italian wines at "San Luis Obispo" prices. Step into our dining room, let the comfortable Tuscan decor surround you as our staff graciously serves you selections from Maria Rosa's menu. Cafè Roma is the creation of the entire Rizzo family. See More

1976 in the Cal Poly Yosemite dorm, Tower 8.

How does the social media giant decide who and what to put in your feed? Tom Weber conducts a one-month experiment to break the algorithm, discovering 10 of Facebook’s biggest secrets.

Audible Magic provides its patented digital fingerprint technology via its SmartID automated con...tent recognition system. The SmartID system enables a wide variety of features and solutions in social TV, interactive advertising, personalization, compliance and audience metrics. Applications using this technology can quickly and accurately identify music, movies, TV shows, online games, and advertising based on the perceptual characteristics of the audio and/or video signals.See More

i want my daughters and granddaughters to see this. I want everyone to see this. This video can be seen on YouTube

Check out Arcade Fire's new interactive HTML5 music experience, "The Wilderness Downtown"�.

I thought this was one of the better moments during President Obama's town hall with CNBC's John Harwood. He gets asked by hedge fund manager Anthony Scaramucci what we can do about the anti-Wall Street sentiment out there and what to do about it

Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ) quietly introduced V Cast Media Manager, a cloud-based media storage solution offering subscribers anytime/anywhere access to their content via the web or any compatible... Read more >>

The attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, succeeded far beyond anything Osama bin Laden could possibly have envisioned. This is not just because they resulted in nearly 3,000 deaths, nor only because they struck at the heart of American financial and military power. Those outcomes were only the bait; it wou...

Following the former Alaska governor's road show, the author delves into the surreal new world Palin now inhabits a place of fear, anger, and illusion.

Evening fishing on the dock - uploaded to Facebook directly from the dock!

OpEd in today's NYTimes ...It is therefore unseemly for the Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell, to insist that the nation's wealthiest taxpayers be spared even a three-percentage-point rate increase. ...

Set of 12 live cam feeds of the BP oil disaster in the gulf. I got the raw code from a friend on FB and put it here so that it's easy to find.

Public employee salary database of the San Jose Mercury News and Bay Area News Group.

American denialism threatens many areas of scientific progress, including the widespread fear of vaccines and the useless trust placed in the vast majority of dietary supplements quickly come to mind.

Met with my CPA today and got an update on the direct costs to me of the health reform bill. She tells me: 1. Interest and dividends are subject to medicare tax of 1.5% or 3%, no one is sure yet. 2. 9/10th of one percent increase in tax on income OVER $200k - no one should complain about that...

In my last post I summarized some data showing that a majority of Americans have a deficit in vitamin D and the implications of that for skeletal and possibly other health areas. To finish the story, today ...

Here's an interesting idea: The develoment of modern civilization in Europe was the result of the Black Plague...

7th Grade @ Crespi - if you are in here, then please tag your photo! Cecelia sent this class photo to me! Thank you so much CU! It was the only one I was missing!

Here is the 7th grade class photo at Crespi.

8th Grade @ Crespi - if you are in here, then please tag your photo!

Wilmers Lab

When we opened our SoHo store in 2008, we were introduced to the resourceful culture of "curb-mining": the act of finding furniture and art on the street. Now that a year has passed, we decided to conduct a curb-mining experiment of our own to celebrate our one-year anniversary in New York. ...