Sunday, March 05, 2006

Horror in France

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A group of at least 19 French men and women collude to abduct a young jewish man and torture him for about 3 weeks. Somehow, before dying, h...

Doonesbury is a guardian of the enlightenment

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Doonesbury's latest features a potential new character - Dr. Nathan Null. Doonesbury: March 5, 2006 " ... I always teach the contro...
Thursday, March 02, 2006

Bush: sociopath, dull, .... or demented?

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So Bush was given explicit scenarious describing what in fact befell New Orleans, but a few days later he claimed never to have heard anythi...
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What ciphers will be broken 30 years from now?

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About 10 years ago, as a very green and ignorant student, I wrote a paper on security in which I imagined that with sufficiently strong encr...

Obsidian Wings on Scientology

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Obsidian Wings has a nice set of links to several recent Scientology articles . This has long been an interest of mine . Salon also did a g...

Now don't panic ...

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The Washington Post reports that the Fed's watch list has over 325,000 names : The National Counterterrorism Center maintains a central ...

Katrina: the disappeared

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The NYT has surprisingly lyrical writing in a story of the living lost of Katrina: Storm's Missing: Lives Not Lost but Disconnected - Ne...
Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Where has the money gone? To the very American oligarchy.

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DeLong liberates Krugman from the NYT pay-prison (emphases mine): Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal From Krugman, NYT: So who are the win...

Psychoanalysis as alternative medicine: Tommyrot in the NYT OpEd page

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I was thinking of Freud the other day. A great thinker, a great writer, and a flawed human being to be sure, but he started out as a scienti...

The tragicomic security failures of the financial services industry: Acxiom's story

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The security situation in the financial services industry has passed beyond shocking into darkly comical. For about four years the personal...

Discarding receipts: IRS accepts scanned images

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It's a bit quirky, but my Brother MFC 7820N device is now working as a networked scanner to my Mac and XP machines. I can put something...
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The National Parks: Reason 143 to despise Bush

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Even if I didn't have 142 other reasons to intensely dislike the GOP and GWB, their attack on the national parks would do all by itself:...
Monday, February 27, 2006

Hacking the universe: counterfactual computing

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You can measure something -- without actually doing the measurement . You just threaten to do the measurement. The answer then appears. It s...

Drug testing in sports: time to give up?

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A few years ago JAMA featured a series of articles on drug testing for atheletes. I don't recall the details, but I do remember concludi...

Defining a disease: how often are atypical presentations due to multiple agents?

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It's been a long time since I was a real doctor, but occasionally I play one when the kids are sick (my wife is still a real doctor). In...