This post isn’t any ordinary post. It’s the 200th post in Thought Box history. Way back in May of 2009, I started this blog, very unclear of what to write about. Eventually, I found a niche in the fields of science and technology, which are my two passions. Here’s a timeline of this blog’s milestones: First post: May 30th, 2009 …
This post was originally written by thebeebs on blogs.msdn.net, on 9 January 2012. You can read the original post here. How to name a web browser (by those who have) I don’t know about you, but my web browser is the second app I launch every day (just after email). In fact, overall, I probably spend more time using it …
This article was originally posted on TheNextWeb.com on January 7, 2012, by Matthew Panzarino. You can read the original article here. If you’ve ever wondered how long the average Tweet is, then this graph should answer some questions for you. Created by Twitter employee Isaac Hepworth, it is a sampling of 1 million Tweets published on the network, excluding retweets. …
This just shocked me. This was pretty obvious from the statistics of his sales after the free weekend, but it's official: Notch, the developer of Minecraft, is a multi-millionaire. This is from money coming from no other source than $14 per-person purchases of the Minecraft alpha. That is to say, he's made more by selling the pre-pre-release version of his …
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