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- The Rural AIDS Action Network in Minnesota is launching a Libraries Fight HIV/AIDS campaign in partnership with the MLA today. |
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Presence (Dec 02 2003 03:59 GMT) - This post scoffs at technology that replicates the actions of an individual at a distance to create the illusion that they are there via "connected furniture". I think that presence, the feeling that someone else is near, is valued by people. I heard about some doo-hickey in Japan (where else) that connects an electric kettle to a light, so relatives can tell when their grandparent is making themselves a drink. I actually think this is pretty neat. In addition, most of the value I get from IM is the little green lights letting me know my friends are just a click away. |
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- We're a record label. But we're not evil. We call it "try before you buy." It's the shareware model applied to music. Listen to hundreds of MP3'd albums from our artists. |
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- What's Dillo? Dillo is a web browser project completely written in C. |
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- Beim Aufheizen der Atmosphäre übertrumpfen die Australier sogar noch die Amerikaner: Der Pro-Kopf-Ausstoß an Treibhausgasen liegt um ein Drittel höher als beim Gesamt-Rekordverschmutzer. |
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bt is back (Dec 02 2003 03:58 GMT) - Folks are looking at BitTorrent again. Here are my findings from nov 2002, jan 2003 and feb 2003 |
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bt is back (Dec 02 2003 03:58 GMT) - Folks are looking at BitTorrent again. Here are my findings from nov 2002, jan 2003 and feb 2003 |
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- Tenants sued city, HUD, claiming '30s segregation system remains in place; Federal action filed 9 years ago |
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- No list exists of potential replacements for Norris as head of police, he says; New subpoenas issued to city department seeking records related to federal grants |
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- Good example of a well-executed Flash application found on the site supporting the PBS series The Secret Life of the Brain. Might be considered somewhat simplistic, but its level of complexity is probably appropriate for its intended audience/purpose. My only problem with the interface is that you can't reach the limbic system by clicking on the brain, you can only reach it by using the buttons in the lower right. If you don't explore those controls, you'll only get part of the experience. |
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- Vier Jahre nach ihrer Einführung muss sich nun das Bundesverfassungsgericht mit der Öko-Steuer befassen. Spediteure und Betreiber von Kühlhäusern halten sie für verfassungswidrig, weil sie verschiedene Industriezweige ohne vernünftigen Grund unterschiedlich behandelt. |
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- THE cancellation of the Warriors' trip to England which was scheduled for a week prior to the African Nations Cup Finals in Tunisia next year has deprived Zimbabwean players a chance to impress English soccer scouts and agents that had been lined to view the players. |
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- CharisMac - Firewire Dino: Just what we need: a Firewire hub disguised as Godzilla. Firewire Dino is stomping through town and he means business. With piercing red eyes and an open mouth that lights up when plugged in to the... |
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- And this year's winner is: "Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's curious statement at a press briefing was named on Monday as the year's most baffling comment by a public figure. "Reports that say something hasn't happened are interesting to me, because as we know, there are known unknowns; there things we know we know," Rumsfeld told the briefing. "We also know there are known unknowns; |
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- The WDC is once again going quiet. The tenant who took over after we vacated a couple years ago is now packing up and moving to a new office, leaving our once beloved home empty yet again. I talked to Jeff, the guy moving out, for a few minutes today. ... |
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- She Still Held On To The DVD Player! - nyc.indymedia.org:8080 |
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- BBC NEWS: US factories hit 20-year record US factory output is at its fastest pace in 20 years, a survey suggests, in the latest proof of concerted recovery in the world's biggest economy. The purchasing managers' index (PMI), a complex but usually accurate measure of current manufacturing, has hit its highest level since mid-1983. |
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- Protest gegen die Industrialisierung und Zerschneidung des größten zusammenhängenden Obstanbaugebietes in Deutschland: Hunderte Bauern und Naturschützer aus dem Alten Land kamen mit Treckern über die Elbe, um in Hamburg zu demonstrieren. |
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- I guess having kids can come in handy after all. A Cambodian man who found he had no money with... |
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- Federal Panel Quashes Subpoenas of DeLay, Barton in Texas Redistricting Case AUSTIN (AP) - A three-judge federal panel on Monday rejected attempts to force House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and Rep. Joe Barton to testify in a lawsuit over Texas' new congressional districts. |
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- BBC NEWS: Iraqis set up science academy Iraqi scientists have taken a first step towards restoring a programme of research in the war-ravaged country. A two-day meeting of Iraqis has established a new scientific academy to attract talent back to the country as it builds back its infrastructure. The 12 founder members of the academy met at the Royal Society, the UK's national academy of science, in London, due to the security situation in Iraq. ... |
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- Thousands of people with disabilities feel like prisoners in their own homes, new research suggests. |
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- The parents of murdered Milly Dowler are to launch the next stage of a media alert scheme for when children go missing. |
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- Economists use the term "happiness" (or "utility") to explain why people make the choices they do. A person picks A over B because A makes them happier than B.Behavioral economics questions some of the logic behind this by pointing out that people are often disappointed after making their choices, and feel let down after their initial expectations were too high ("buyers remorse").It's hard to know what to do with these findings. One of "Thaler's Rules" (U Chicago behavioral economist Dick Thaler, my former teacher, had a bunch of rules that served as memonics) was that "If you spot a bias, de-bias. |
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- AP via Newsday Dec 1 2003 9:50PM ET... |
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- AP via Seattle Post Intelligencer Dec 1 2003 10:02PM ET... |
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- Straits Times Dec 1 2003 10:09PM ET... |
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- Yahoo! Dec 1 2003 10:23PM ET... |
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- China Post Dec 1 2003 10:13PM ET... |
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- Sunday Times South Africa Dec 1 2003 10:15PM ET... |
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- Seasoning the obese - S.O.D. |
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- Pensacola, FL (TNN) - It's not quite the fairy-tale ending Sgt. Sean Blackwell had hoped for after marrying an Iraqi woman while stationed in Baghd... - www.indymedia.org: |
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- It was a charming idea for The New York Times Magazine to commission nine prominent graphic designers to design posters for one of the nine Democratic candidates vying for the presidential nomination, but charming is exactly the problem. Each designer drew a candidate’s name from a hat, so there was no deliberate synergy in politics or artistic temperament, which may explain why most all of these posters are so flat and lifeless, but it doesn’t explain why, first of all, almost none of these designers really bothered to address the central challenge of the exercise, and second, why a disproportionately high number are all drawn from the same source.This post continued... |
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- Damn. The last of the cornbread stuffing from Thanksgiving is gone. This, of course, prompts that crucial post-Turkey Day question: should I start Atkins in the morning and hope to shed a few pounds before Christmas by polishing off what's left of the turkey and ham, or should I pretend it's Christmas every day and make more stuffing tomorrow? Decisions, decisions. |
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- Nice. First the Saudi's purchase a nuclear warhead from Pakistan. Now they're expanding their closest air base to Israel. Saudi Arabia has decided to develop a key air force base... |
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- Writing in Britain's blatantly anti-Semitic Guardian newspaper, propagandist Conal Urquhart opines that Israelis who are against the Geneva Accord believe in a "greater Israel." The Guardian is the newspaper of... |
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Soft Islam (Dec 02 2003 03:54 GMT) - Writing in Policy Review, Amitai Etzioni warns against a strictly secular model for Iraqi democracy. ..if one draws, for political legitimacy, merely on respect for the U.N. Declaration and the... |
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- Writing in the justifiably nervous Guardian, Emanuele Ottolenghi exposes EuroLeft anti-Zionism for what it is. If only the articulate Oxford scholar hadn't overlooked the essence of the problem. Judeophobes aren't... |
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- How is Islam like the European Enlightenment and EuroChristianity? Simple. From the outset, all three targeted Judaism as the enemy and defined themselves around it. Bassam Darwish, editor of the... |
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