I do believe the play of the year in Major League Baseball for 2010 has already occurred - and on opening day no less. Chicago White Sox pitcher Mark Buehrle made an absolutely amazing defensive play yesterday, flipping the ball between his legs on a no-look toss to first base.
That was the text of a spam comment on the blog here earlier, "Achieve peace with devotional ringtones". I'll admit my lack of imagination in understanding how that might be possible.
I apparently can earn money with devotional ringtones as well. Peace and wealth all in one package - what's not to like?
LifeHacker has a neat article on a method to easily calculate square numbers in your head using a math trick from a book called Secrets of Mental Math by Arthur Benjamin and Michael Shermer. The trick is this:
If N is the number you wish to square: N2 = (N + r) * (N - r) +r2 where r is the difference between N and rounding N up to the nearest 10. Or, put into English and presuming we wish to calculate the square of 27:
Round the number you wish to square up to the next ten. For our example, this is 30.
Calculate the difference between your number and the rounded up number. For our example, this is 30 - 27 or 3.
Multiply the rounded up number by your number minus the difference just calculated. For our example, this is 27 - 3 or 24. Multiplying 30 * 24 in your head is much easier. 30 * 24 = 720.
Calculate the square of the difference (32 is 9 in our example). 720 + 9 = 729. That's your answer.
How to Geek has a lengthy excellent article on working with pivot tables in Excel. Pivot tables are an infrequently used tool but one that is well worth understanding every now and again with the right sort of data.
I found a new bluegrass music podcast today from a website called Smokin Grass Music. There isn't much information on the site other than a tagline of "This is a themed music show with a slant toward Independent Bluegrass Music". Not much to go on.
