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Jill Kocher on May 8th, 2012

Web Piecats Mittens and Scooter practice their long tail skills. The long tail “refers to the statistical property that a larger share of population rests within the tail of a probability distribution than observed under a “normal” or Gaussian distribution,” according to Wikipedia. Mittens thought that definition was completely incomprehensible. I believe his exact response [...]

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Jill Kocher on April 8th, 2012

Easter is perhaps not the most piratical holiday, but with the help of a Sharpie we made do. Cheers, everyone, and happy Easter to ye all. Now get back to work, you lot!

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Jill Kocher on April 3rd, 2012

My pal PJ Fusco, SEO expert and co-lover of all things geeky, gave me the best birthday present ever. A coffee mug for my office freaturing the intricate diagram of the game Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock. The game was originally invented in the early part of the century by Sam Kass and Karen Bryla, [...]

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Jill Kocher on November 30th, 2011

On our vacation this week to the hinterlands of northern Wisconsin and Michigan’s upper peninsula, First Mate Brian and I stopped by Lake Superior to take in the sunset. As I hunted the shoreline for treasure and arty photo opportunities, Brian drew me a lovely effigy. I knew he was up to something because I [...]

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Jill Kocher on November 23rd, 2011

I was underwhelmed by Google’s Thanksgiving doodle … UNTIL I played with the personalization animations. Very cool, Google! Did you know that if you click the wing you get a slot-machine-esque changing of features that settles into a random configuration. And for the first time there’s a link to share your doodle to G+ (nice [...]

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