Monday, July 31, 2006

Pandora: music radio and recommendations

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Jacob Reider pointed to Pandora Ad supported radio that suggests music based on one's likes. Oldest trick in the book (I think Firefly d...

Airport security 1995 - an insider's story

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via Schneier. The beautiful thing about the web is all kinds of people can tell their stories, and people like Schneier tell us about the in...

Spolsky on pricing theory

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Why does what you buy cost what it costs? Read Camels and Rubber Duckies - Joel on Software . I have a seriously dense textbook on pricing t...

An Interview with Charles (Bell Curve) Murray

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About 10 years ago Charles Murray and Richard Hernstein wrote "The Bell Curve", a book that caused great outrage on the American l...

Stress, disease and early aging

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The NYT Magazine has a long article on disease and aging though I think the lead family photo is a big misleading (look yourself and contem...
Sunday, July 30, 2006

Geeks don't use Travelers Insurance

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JOS calls out a comically stupid and offensive ad campain by Travelers Insurance . I wonder how much business they once had in Silicon Valle...
Friday, July 28, 2006

Dyer has about 10 new articles online

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The journalist, military historian, arabist and eccentric web author has about 10 new June/July articles . This journlist doesn't do he ...

The Ultra Portable Mobile Computer is doomed

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The UPMC is crushed by a 10 year old Apple Newton in a head-to-head struggle . That's pathetic. The UPMC is dead. Move along folks ...

Black skin, SPF, and when a feature becomes a bug

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[ Update 7/31 : read the comments. The BBC article really mangled the study, and my imagination was overly active. As our commentator notes,...
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Hezbollah, collective punishment, and the falling cost of havoc

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In the winter of 2001 I thought a lot about the falling cost of havoc . Technology changes the course and nature of conflict, and the relati...
Thursday, July 27, 2006

Landis: the odd thing about the test results

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On NPR a specialist in doping described Landis results differently from the news stories. This is typical of what we're reading: KRT Wir...

Shrillblog: The History of the Shrill

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DeLong writes The History of the Shrill . Made me look back to the first post . I think I joined on the 2nd post. Been reading every since. ...

The most important MS Office preferences

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SIVACRACY.NET: MS Office Upgrade, With Important New Features . I loved the one about "same ... default attributes". There are so ...

DeLong's top 20

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DeLong lists the twenty blogs he reads most frequently . I'll check out the few I don't know.

Hijacked by the right, a scientist disembarks

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A few years back a real scientist published a well respected paper noting some cooling trends in parts of Antarctica. The author became an u...