Saturday, September 04, 2010

Was my Google account hacked?

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Ominous warning this afternoon of a possible Google account hack ... Gordon's Tech: Scary events in Google password land... ... I was t...

Lessons in history: iTunes U and the quiet revolution in university education

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Amidst all the noise and turbulence of humanity, what will become historic? Some things are obvious. If there are history books in 100 year...

Team Obama naivete - I am more than surprised

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Honestly, I'm stunned. I never thought Team Obama was naive or stupid. They were, I assumed, smart professionals. Any talk about GOP enl...
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Friday, September 03, 2010

What the world needs: a divided thickness blanket

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Forget "sleep numbers". At a certain age and level of entropy, the marital challenge is not mattress firmness, it's temperatur...
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Wednesday, September 01, 2010

The Cray 1A resurrected

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For people of a certain age, Cray was the ultimate mind blowing supercomputer. Several of my colleagues worked for the company. So how fas...

Cable connections - now think about conflict

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Fallows blogs (again) about the  infowarrior global telecom map , which includes cables like C2C (emphases mine): Greg's Cable Map :  ...
Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Pawlenty - an opportunist to despise

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Tim Pawlenty is governor of Minnesota, with about four months left to serve. He's not running for reelection. He's supposedly runnin...
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Cross-Country Skiing in MSP - Adelsman

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The web is a lot like LA. It has no history. Almost no history. By web standards Adelsman's XC ski pages are ancient civilization. I ...

Gmail's personalized classifier: your own private AI

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When you read about Gmail's new "Priority Inbox" feature, it helps to know that "Classifiers" are at the heart of wh...
Sunday, August 29, 2010

Michael Lewis - The Big Short - how we lost our economy

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Tim Bray has written a review of Michael Lewis book "The Big Short" . Tim loves Lewis book. Do read Bray's review and lesson...

Answering Krugman: Why the Obama administration isn't panicking about the elections

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Paul Krugman doesn't understand why the Obama administration isn't panicked about a pending electoral catastrophe . I think he b...
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RV timeshares today and tomorrow

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We've got 3 Kids around 11, 1 dog, an old van and a newish Subaru wagon. A new van is the default purchase, but most of the time I jus...

Guided evolution in cancer therapy

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Another of my speculation is cheap (but fun) posts. I searched Google Scholar today with the terms guided evolution cancer . I didn't ...

Survivors and Foragers: speculation on group selection and obesity

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Speculation is cheap. What if one of the variables in human weight control was activity response to caloric restriction? Ok, so that...
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Friday, August 27, 2010

Google's bicycle directions are getting scary good in MSP

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A few weeks ago Google's bike directions from my home to my office were pretty good, but they did send me over a fairly narrow and crowd...