May 10, 2006


The National Weather Service has some really cool graphs. Yay, federal government!
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Time series nerds like me are going to have a hard time not spending the rest of our lives playing with Google Trends. Examples to try: hurricane; summer, winter; montpelier. Spend hours comparing the number of Google search queries involving a word with the number of news stories involving that word. Nice.
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Todd points us to the motherlode of ridiculous cover letters. Our favorite is #20.

Thank you for taking the time to consider my resume, even though I don't have one. MICROSOFT CANADA JOB HISTORY IBM I have been programming Perl for eight years, on every business appropriate platform there is, and I've been around long enough to understand that there are no human beings reading this. PENTIUM APPLE PARAMOUNT STUDIOS GENERAL MOTORS ENGINEERING You're a room of machines looking for keywords, the same way that my ISP searches for keywords in my emails.

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