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< ?php amm_getMediaID('amm_default_output',24);?>The latest blow to the longstanding preeminence of the bell curve and ‘normal distribution’ comes via Chris Anderson. I first ran across the term “Long Tail” as it described the boats that transported me along the Chao Phraya River in Bangkok. More recently Lazlo Barabasi has brought the term to prominence in the [...]

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In their current series of ads the folks at Apple anthropomorphize the Mac and Windows operating systems. They represent Windows as conservative, traditional, and a bit uncertain. The Mac guy, on the other hand is fun-loving, hip, and confident. I can’t help but wonder what the Ubuntu Linux person would look like. Ubuntu is the [...]

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