Tuesday, May 31, 2005

Making a threat threatening: six strategies for business

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HBS Working Knowledge: Strategy: Six Steps for Making Your Threat Credible Did you know there are entire journals dedicated to Negotiati...

Israeli hackers use trojan software to spy on rival companies: Neuromancer lives

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BBC NEWS | Middle East | Israeli firms 'ran vast spy ring' Neuromancer was not the first science fiction novel to describe a world o...
Sunday, May 29, 2005

The last remaining shards of the media squeak up.

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Washington Post: Assault On the Media The barbarians have leveled the house and set fire to the fields. They advance on a loan scribe de...
Saturday, May 28, 2005

The ultimate iMac accessory: an air conditioner

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Faughnan's Tech: iMac essential: a thermal monitoring program Let's assume Apple has fixed the power supply and the fans in the ...

Smithsonian Museum of Natural History to screen the Discovery Institute's anti-evolution propaganda

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Smithsonian to Screen a Movie That Makes a Case Against Evolution - New York Times Reading the article one is left with two possible con...

Happiness is a selective memory - manipulating memory for good and for profit

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EconLog, Framing Effects and Memory, Bryan Caplan: Library of Economics and Liberty A central assumption of much of my research is that peop...

Gender imbalance in China: the contribution of Hepatitis B infection

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The Search for 100 Million Missing Women - An economics detective story. By Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt Fascinating. There ar...

Signs of the end times? Or just new times ...

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First - Crooked Timber: I think I’m going to be sick: The Economist’s new venture is: ...an inspirational lifestyle magazine which instead...

Search engines I use now

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At the pretty wired (ok, it was in Minnesota) .com startup I worked for in the 90s I was the first to discover and use Google. Alta Vista, m...
Friday, May 27, 2005

Water boarding and other American recreational activities

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The Torture Feature: Taxonomy of Torture Form Direct Questioning to Sleep deprivation to Isolation to Water boarding to old-fashined bea...

Intelligent design: the game of Spore

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BBC NEWS | Technology | Sims creator takes on evolution In the game, players start off as an amoeba in a 2D world, reminiscent of some early...

Security costs money, it's cheaper for banks to pay the crooks.

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PBS | I, Cringely . May 26, 2005 - Phish or Phisher? Cringely tackles phishing scams, and he's sufficiently impolitic to point out why c...

Race as a collection of genes that travel together

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The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Contributor: A Family Tree in Every Gene The thesis of the article is that genes tend to travel t...

Yahoo Search drops the big one: non-commercial search

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Yahoo! Mindset Ooookkkaaaay. This is actually interesting. Yahoo's new "Mindset" search allows you to weight search result...
Thursday, May 26, 2005

Stanford Center for Clinical Informatics: Seminar series

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2004-05 Seminars - Stanford Center for Clinical Informatics (SCCI) - Stanford University School of Medicine This is a remarkable resourc...