Today’s news has been overwhelmed by underwhelming stories about Consumer Confidence and House Price Appreciation. Zzzz… But one interesting item that caught my eye, and is definitely one for every other “mathlete” out there is this: Wired shares an empirical chart that shows the trend of human speeds for the 100m dash, the race that defines the fastest human [...]

Lookout! A reportout of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has reported that Vitol Group, a Swiss energy trading company, were not in fact helping supply industrial firms with energy, rather speculating and keeping the inventory themselves. The report suggests that Vitol had as much as 11% of the outstanding oil contracts traded on the NYMEX, [...]

I’m sure that the broad opinion of the attraction of the Olympic Games is the spirit of international competition, national pride and spectacular feats of humanity. But that’s just the broad opinion. In my humble opinion, the attraction is the controversy that fosters seemingly endless debate. There are hundreds of examples. Here are just a [...]

So after some “humming and hawing”, we decided to add functionality that allows Swaplogic Members to create and keep track of Friends using their Swaplogic Account. At first, we tried to avoid this mainly because we felt like it was probably the most overused term on the internet, but in the end, we decided that [...]

Want to join an exclusive club? How about joining the very elite group of people who bought the I Am Rich iPhone application before it was removed from the iPhone Apps store. There has been more press for both sides of the argument on this app than the average person can handle. I just found [...]