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- Okay, random linkdom: The compleat diagram of strange persons, 2003 edition. This looks like it's a lot of fun. i'm not sure i follow the logic, but it's pretty and has nice dots. What more could you ask? |
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- Randy Bailey, the owner of the Mesa, Arizona, brake shop featured in our recent story about eminent domain abuse, has won his case against City Hall. (The case was featured last Sunday in a great segment on 60 Minutes.) Special props to the Institute for Justice, the DC-based libertarian law firm that represented Bailey. |
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- Rod, I'm going to disagree with you. Let me give you my reasons. I have several ;) 1) I use AIM notifications, everytime someone visits my blog it sends me an AIM instant message including the person's IP and referring page. I get approximately 50-100 of these a day. |
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Sad (Oct 02 2003 14:59 GMT) - This is just so sad.... |
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- President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Russia can modernize its aging strategic arsenal and maintain its military might for years, relying on stockpiles of Soviet-built missiles that he boasted are capable of overcoming any defense system. |
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- PopUpCop, iHatePopups, PopSubtract, PopNot, Popup Dummy...the names say it all. This article offers a brief review of some of the leading software for putting the power in users' hands to control these often annoying ads. NewsFactor reports. Rick Bruner posts. |
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- Stephen Adams, Information Quality, Liability, and Corrections, Information Today, Sept/Oct 2003. A fascinating overview of the many kinds of bad information and the damage they can cause. Adams doesn't directly discuss open access, but there are implications worth investigating. For example, he reports that errors not caught by peer review are often caught by periodic consolidation of primary sources into secondary and tertiary sources. However, "[a]ccess to primary literature is now so easy and so powerful that users are tempted to merely re-run searches against a primary source at regular intervals instead of utilizing the slower process of independent data consolidation. |
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- Adobe's full explanation. All I can figure is, I really *need* one more hassle. Bother. |
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- First Axis members Pril, then Jordana and friend of the Axis Ravenwood dipped into the subject. Why not drop my two cents into the pot... - The first Color TV I ever saw had almost round picture tube and took a minute or two to warm up. Do you remember when TVs had to warm up before a picture would show up? And, when you turned them off everything shrunk down to a tiny bright dot in the center of the screen that slowly faded away. |
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- Warum wollen eigentlich verschiedenste Rechner von sehr weit weg auf mein SpamPal zugreifen? Gibt es dafr einen guten Grund? Mein SpamPal holt sich doch seine Daten, die ab und zu bentigt werden, selbst berall ab. *kopfkratz* |
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- A russian finance magazine had made an ... interesting poster about euro and us dollar "dancing". Soon after publishing the posters, they we're stripped of the walls, because it look more like dirty dancing (=link to article with picture of the poster). |
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- Mama raised me right -- I'm firmly behind the idea of lining cabinet and cupboard shelves with liner paper. I've tried it without and I just end up with this overwhelming sense that something is very, very wrong. So why fight it? But I've come to realize something. The people who control the liner paper industry, more specifically the people who run Con-Tact, think all of us who line our shelves with paper are old ladies with bad eyesight. |
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- I just got back from the gym. Boy - I've missed going there. I am going to get there at... |
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- Tir des rapports d'valuation individuelle tablis par la hirarchie de la Socit Gnrale en fin d'anne 1999 :1) Travaille bien seulement quand il est sous surveillance constante etqu'il est coinc comme un rat dans un pige. |
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- 1) Le portable sensible et 2) la grillade la & |
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- Lair que nous respirons est loin dtre uniquement compos doxygne puisque celui-ci ne reprsente que 21% du volume total, ce au niveau de la mer. Ainsi, lair est galement constitu dazote (78%) et dargon (moins de 1%), utilis pour le remplissage de certaines lampes incandescence. Mais la liste des ingrdients& |
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- The Chicago Archdiocese agreed Thursday to pay $12 million to 19 people who say they were molested by priests over the past five decades. Individual settlements will range from $200,000 to $1.7 million, according to attorney Jeffrey R. Anderson, whose firm worked out the agreement with the archdiocese. |
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- Acts allegedly took place over 3 decades; Aide denies accusations |
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- The idea's simple. Block the cash register pointer, and you'll spoil the spammer's payday. Sounds great... at first. As Mike at Techdirt points out, spammers could bring the whole system down by including urls for legit sites in every message. |
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- What is the Texas Music Project? The Mission of TMP is to help strengthen and restore rigorous music education... |
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- Korea launches a switch to open source: They may seem like strange bedfellows, but two announcements this week strengthen open-source in government IT structures: "Thousands of computers in ministries, government-linked organizations and universities in South Korea will replace Microsoft's Windows... |
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- You could think of it as Where's Waldo meets the Unknown Comic in public. Paperbaghead. You have to be just a little bit brave, and significantly silly, to wear a paper bag over your head in a public space while someone else takes your picture. Yes, |
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- CitySearch may have been ahead of its time. Back when it launched, the challenge of amassing local advertisers efficiently drove CitySearch and Microsoft Sidewalk to the brink of ruin. Now with Google's ability to target ads topically and locally may be the savior of local portals. Self-serve advertising and text-only ads are much easier to administer than banners, and often more effective. Detroit News reports. |
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- Sudan's foreign minister said Thursday he expects his government and rebel leaders to sign a peace agreement by the end of the year, clearing the way for the country to begin its recovery from 20 years of civil war. |
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- As part of its regular review process, Big Blue has eliminated roughly 700 services positions in the United States, the company says. |
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- To combat the drought of business air travelers, Northwest Airlines has launched a new ad campaign to promote its new planes, new terminal and a new reservation system. Star Tribune reports. Steve Hall posts. [summary] |
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- Galway hurling boss Conor Hayes has revealed the intense disappointment of his players following the county hurling board's unanimous vote against joining the Leinster championship. |
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- Conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh resigned from the cable TV sports network ESPN, three days after sparking outrage by saying Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb is overrated because the media wanted to see a black quarterback succeed.In other Rush news: After a day of intense media bashing a tabloid is reporting: 'Rush Linbaugh In Drug Ring' ... Housekeeper wore wire in set-up supplied pain pills to deaf talkshow host... |
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