Friday, February 02, 2007

Is Bill Gates delusional?

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I think Gates believed what he said in this Newsweek article. Daring Fireball: Lies, Damned Lies, and Bill Gates ... Nowadays, security guy...
Thursday, February 01, 2007

Dyer has seven new articles - and an improved web page

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Dyer has seven new articles online : January 4 Struggle Against 'War on Drugs' ...

DeLong on inequality

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Brad DeLong, a Berkeley economist, has summarized his thinking on inequality. He distinguishes between international and national inequality...

Thirty years from frozen to comfy -- the end of the last "ice age"

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I was enjoying an excellent IOT podcast of the history of Hell (Melvyn Bragg is Anglican, so he forgot purgatory) on my morning commute when...

Molly Ivins was a Minnesotan (briefly)

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Molly Ivins has died. She’s been a feature on our family news page for many years, and I’ve quoted her many a time in my blogs. Her obits ...

Trailer parks and the new suburbs: how is my world changing?

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I live in the urban residential core of the “twin cities”, a relatively wealthy mid-sized north american metropolitan region. We’re colder t...
Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Credit card scammers: the story continues

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In late 1998 I was one of thousands defrauded in the $40 million Netfill credit card scam . I wrote up a web page, helped track down the bad...

The Terrifying Toothpick Fish - I'll take the hungry shark please

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Damn Interesting: The Terrifying Toothpick Fish . A disaster for the fish of course, but not so good for the human either. Most of us would ...
Monday, January 29, 2007

Revolution Health: an onerous linking policy

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If you sign up to try Revolution Health (AOL Case’s project), including it’s personal healthcare record (PHR), you are legally committing yo...
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NY Mayor Bloomberg is an ass

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New York's Mayor is an ass: The City That Never Walks - New York Times ... In December, the police say, a bicyclist was killed on the Hu...
Sunday, January 28, 2007

Lest we forget: how Microsoft used to do business

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I've heard similar stories from others. Tim Bray is a respected source. In the days of its ruthless ascent to omnipotence Microsoft beha...

The blog is an incredible thing. Irrefutable evidence.

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It's less common now, but once upon a time morons with column inches would rant about the vacuity of the blogosphere. This was invariabl...
Saturday, January 27, 2007

Elbow pads and snowboarding

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If you're over 45 and given the choice between a slow painful death and snowboarding lessons, I highly recommend elbow pads. I came up w...
Friday, January 26, 2007

Higgs?

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A particle physicist dares to speculate that his team has spotted the Higgs boson . Odds are this is a false alarm, but there's a decent...

How to hack a human: start with the insula

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Say you want to hack a human. You want to alter what they love, what they hate, what they want. You probably start with the insula: In Clue ...