Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Broder and O'Reilly: comic relief from the right wing

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Tom Tomorrow can't resist a Broder rant: This Modern World » Blog Archive » Mr. McBobo strikes again! ... David Brooks takes wrongne...

How will you know that the iPhone is ready?

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Is there a test, a sign, that the iPhone is really ready for use by serious geeks? Something beyond the "we had to drop it at the last ...

Moments in history - the transformation of the print media

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Bruce Bartlett, a respectable "second tier" (meaning not wealthy) columnist is   quitting the business . Extracting from DeLong...

Friedman actually makes a suggestion worth considering - briefly

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I'm not saying it's a good suggestion, but given Friedman's record of years of no advice, or nonsensical advice, this recommenda...

The case of the disappearing Amazon reviews

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In at least one case, a good number of Amazon reviews have gone missing:  Scott Rosenberg’s Wordyard » Blog Archive » The case of the disa...
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Google maps: more exciting developments

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I was thrilled by Google's integration of 'My Maps' and Google/Picasa's web albums . Commentators who think Google's onl...
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Tuesday, July 10, 2007

The Hutter prize: AI pattern recognition developed through compression algorithm tests

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To parse out the Slashdot | Text Compressor 1% Away From AI Threshold story, first read the Wikipedia article on the Hutter prize . That...
Monday, July 09, 2007

Waiting for the PDA version of the iPhone

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 This was the first report I've read by someone who's actually looked at how well sync (doesn't) work on iPhone 1.0: Macintouc...

Bring in the lawyers: the sharks circle Menu Foods

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Once upon a time, I was a champion of tort reform. I am, after all, a physician. I was a country doc for years, and I lived in fear of the t...

Dogma: Science, Religion and Perpetual Motion

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I'd not paid much attention to the recent puzzling interest in a perpetual motion/free energy device, but it turns out the puzzle has tw...
Sunday, July 08, 2007

NYT Editorial Page - Start the retreat from Iraq

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If Bush and Cheney were to resign tomorrow, and if they were to miraculously be replaced by a GOP leader with any brains (do any exist any m...
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The meaning of the Greenland DNA discovery

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I've read some immensely confused responses to the discovery of ancient ice layers beneath the more modern Greenland ice. The usual whac...
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The emergence of the carbon tax: first, denial

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The carbon tax will come, in one form or another. It's already starting to ooze into the public consciousness, in the form of articles a...

Williams syndrome: infantile colic, dorsal/ventral balance, patterning genes and genetic determinism

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The NYT has a long article on Williams syndrome. There's a lot in there, as noted by "bestyoucanbe" (emphases mine): Be the Be...
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Quantum erasure and apple of the tree of knowledge

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I skimmed the SciAM article on building a home "quantum eraser" , but I didn't appreciate that the 1982 experiment is just one...