More is less

October 6, 2016
Augstine's Law Number XLI: The more one produces, the less one gets.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

Website 4 the day:
Make 2D hand-drawn animations:
https://pencil2d.github.io/
 

Start out slowly

October 6, 2016
Augstine's Law Number XL: Most projects start out slowly, and then sort of taper off.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

Website 4 the day:
Binaural beats generator:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnaural/
 

Never promise

October 5, 2016
Augstine's Law Number XXXIX: Never promise to complete any project within six months of the end of the year, in either direction.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

Website 4 the day:
Mathematical algorithm system:
http://axiom-developer.org/
 

Birds v. worms

October 4, 2016
Augstine's Law Number XXXVIII: The early bird gets the worm. The early worm...gets eaten.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

Website 4 the day:
Why cats do what they do:
http://www.vetstreet.com/our-pet-experts/is-my-cat-trying-to-annoy-me-5-strange-cat-behaviors-explained
 

Worse than you expect

October 3, 2016
Augstine's Law Number XXXVII: Ninety percent of the time things will turn out worse than you expect. The other 10 percent of the time you had no right to expect so much.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

Website 4 the day:
Deep mind for better speech:
https://deepmind.com/blog/wavenet-generative-model-raw-audio/
 

Eyeball to eyeball

October 3, 2016
One eyeball says to the other: "Between you and me, something smells."

Website 4 the day:
Lewd sounding town names:
http://laughingsquid.com/a-map-highlighting-the-lewdest-sounding-town-name-in-each-state-in-the-united-states/
 

Proposal thickness

September 30, 2016
Augstine's Law Number XXXVI: The thickness of the proposal required to win a multimillion dollar contract is about one millimeter per million dollars. If all the proposals conforming to this standard were piled on top of each other at the bottom of the Grand Canyon it would probably be a good idea.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

Website 4 the day:
DIY medicine:
https://fourthievesvinegar.org/
 

Weak data

September 30, 2016
Augstine's Law Number XXXV: The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to give the data authenticity.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

Website 4 the day:
Human perspective on self-driving cars:
http://moralmachine.mit.edu/
 

Competitive selection

September 29, 2016
Augstine's Law Number XXXIV: The process of competitively selecting contractors to perform work is based on a system of rewards and penalties, all distributed randomly.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

Website 4 the day:
Organize health info:
https://carezone.com/home
 

Rushing fools

September 28, 2016
Augstine's Law Number XXXIII: Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

Website 4 the day:
Downloadable and online graphics editor:
http://vectr.com/
 

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