Thursday, July 07, 2005

The Google Firefox Toolbar: at long last

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Google Blog: The platypus of the Internet It's been a long time coming.

GMail and spam filtering: Google's engineers are not perfect after all

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Google Accounts I love GMail -- except for the spam filtering. It's broken in an impressive way. Google's spam filters miss a lot of...
Wednesday, July 06, 2005

Circumcision: required for all males now?

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Circumcision may offer Africa AIDS hope / Procedure linked to much lower rate of new HIV infections A year ago a study reported a 6 fold...

Pricing futures contracts and call options: examples from oil futures

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Econbrowser: $100 a barrel-- what are the odds? This is a wonderful practical essay on a complex topic. I was trying to figure out the o...

Millennium Simulation: Visiting the universe by simulation

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Millennium Simulation Any feelings of recursion when viewing these videos are purely imaginary. (Link to mirror site, the original ha...
Tuesday, July 05, 2005

Highlights from the 2000 official Texas Republican platform

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Crooked Timber Gold Standard I thought the Minnesota Democratic-Farm-Labor platform was a bit flaky. I just needed to read the Texas Republi...

The word that is not "democracy": it can happen here

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The New York Review of Books: The New World Order Tony Judt, a historian, fears for the American Republic. ...With rare exceptions—notab...

Sparta 2008: The Militarization of America

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The New York Review of Books: The New World Order Emphases mine. The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War by Andre...

Dyer on Iraq: "This is going to be a long war."

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Iraq: The Long War The military historian Gwynne Dyer summarizes the strategic situation in Iraq. The title is the conclusion -- he fore...

On the unremarked and curious decay of software

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MacInTouch: timely news and tips about the Apple Macintosh From a reader comment in Macintouch: [MacInTouch Readers] Creating long docum...
Monday, July 04, 2005

Fax and Voicemail to email: MaxEmail and more

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In years past I've used eFax, jFax and Faxaway in an attempt to integrate fax and email. Results were mixed. Faxaway was once a good sol...
Sunday, July 03, 2005

The BBC destroys classical music CD sales

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BBC - Radio 3 - Beethoven Experience - downloads The BBC has become a rogue force on a world scale. Bully for them. Beethoven's symponie...
Saturday, July 02, 2005

Kawasaki Mobile DVD PVS1965: in the new world, electronics gear is mostly disposable

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I bought a Kawasaki Mobile DVD System with Dual 6.5" LCD Monitors - PVS1965 from Target. It's a portable DVD player to sedate the ...
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Friday, July 01, 2005

Nonlocality and quantum theory

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Do Deeper Principles Underlie Quantum Uncertainty and Nonlocality? -- Seife 309 (5731): 98 -- Science One of the 125 questions. In 1935, Ein...

Are we alone? One of the top 25 questions in the 125th issue of Science

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Are We Alone in the Universe? -- Kerr 309 (5731): 88 -- Science Wow. Science, the ultra-prestigious journal, has released a special public i...