The Student Loan Scheme

A cautionary infographic from Jess Bachman and College Scholarships.org concerning some pitfalls of heavy borrowing for college.

Brain Drain

Ever felt like your brain wasn’t exactly your best friend? Well, you’re probably not simply paranoid. Over at Lifehacker, Kevin Purdy has compiled a list of the Top 10 Ways Your Brain Is Sabotaging You (and How to Beat It), which should be required reading for, um, anyone with half a brain. My personal bugbear? “You Let Negative Feelings About Putting … 

Good Studenting 101

As you get ready to start another school year, you’re probably thinking about (in some way or another) what kinds of things your teachers are going to do to you, or make you do for them. Rightfully so! 😛 You hope you’ll have some good teachers, good classes, and a good year. Guess what? Your teachers are pretty much hoping for … 

Let’s Try This Again

So. How’s everybody been? After a two-year absence, I’m bringing the ol’ ferrellweb.com back up again. I’m using a snazzy new template, since my old design was a bit stale, and I don’t have the time to design a new look myself. (We’ll finally be dispensing with the old blue color scheme and “box‑f” logo, since the site that shall … 

Not Dead Yet.

Hi boys and girls! Just a quick note here, to explain that, for all intents and purposes, the ferrellweb.com is on official hiatus. Developing and other projects while desperately trying to keep up with grad school is sapping all of my spare energy. This site is badly in need of an overhaul, anyway, not just because the design is so … 

What’s in a Name?

Here are a couple sites making the rounds that visualize name data. (Ooo. I love visualizing name data!) The first is the World Names Profiler. Punch your last name into the box, hit “search,” and you’ll see the distribution of folks who share your name all over the globe. Here’s mine: There you go—quite a bit U.S.-heavy, with smatterings in … 

Yearbookery.

All the cool kids on teh Intarnets seem to be yearbooking themselves today, so I thought you guys might like to join in. All you need is a few minutes to waste, and a sort of “front view” picture of yourself to upload. The site will do the rest. If you’d like a preview, here are some of my pictures.

Protagony.

I stumbled across Protagonize today, and thought I’d mention it here, for what it’s worth. I think I remember doing this in some English class once when I was a kid— somebody starts a story on a piece of paper, folds their part down, and passes it on to someone else, who adds a paragraph, and so on, until the … 

Christmas (Bronx)Cheer.

Sweet merciful heaven. Its— You— I mean… it’s a sort of game, see? Where you… or this guy… anyway, there’s some kind of Brussels sprouts… and I guess it’s Christmas… and… Oh, man. I’m better than this, I really am. Merry Christmas, you guys. Sorry. :xmastree: