Archive for July, 2007
links for 2007-07-12
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“…via an archaic telephone-based network of low-quality printers…”
Milestone of social networking experience
Added my first Twitter friend today who was simultaneously
- …not an entrepreneur, comedian or advertising bot trying to gather random friends for future spam applications,
- a friend of a friend, neither of which I’ve ever met face-to-face, and
- interesting
but most interesting: he reports that Googling my Twitter ID brings up our mutual friend’s del.icio.us links.
So: today is multi-channel anastomosis day.
links for 2007-07-11
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“What the Luddites were rioting in favor of was price gouging; they didn’t care how much a wide-frame loom might save in production costs, so long as none of those savings were passed on to their fellow citizens.”
Teaser: 9 July 2007
It doesn’t take a university computer network to calculate, or model, or simulate. You don’t need an entire academy to think, or understand, or explain. You don’t have to be a professor to collaborate, or teach, or advise.
Don’t you think regular people might be able to do some of that, too?
links for 2007-07-09
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“Don’t become a well-rounded person. Well rounded people are smooth and dull. Become a thoroughly spiky person. Grow spikes from every angle. Stick in their throats like a pufferfish.”
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“Both information seekers and publishers bear the responsibility of remembering that the Lens of Google through which we increasingly seek the world is only one lens, albeit one with further and further vision.”
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“So, as a rule, there seem to be no rules for when picking which class of forecasters to pick from.”
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“When the mind fixates on absolute discontinuities, mischief is often in the offing…”
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“Successful open source projects combine meritocratic leadership, “doing” more than “talking”, and breadth…”
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“Nor in this was he mistaken, / As the picture failed completely.”
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“The main advantage of an un-conference is that it helps build social capital among participants. In addition to the participatory sessions and collaborative / anarchic scheduling, there were places for people to do things together.”
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Copy editing might help utility of scientific results. Or not.
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Important
Bless your open-mindedness, Microsoft.
Bless you, because you will let me tell you that my website is not a phishing website. You make it so simple. Anybody can tell you it’s a phishing site, but then I can tell you it’s not!
How lovely. One problem, though, O Blessed Microsoft….
See, Microsoft, two people have pointed out that Notional Slurry is flagged by Internet Explorer as a bad bad man’s site what wants to steal ur pazwrds. I expect somebody flagged it thus.
Fuckwits.
The thing that protects individuals against corporations is that corporations are slow and stupid by comparison. We can out-think, out compete, and walk around them in many situations. But it doesn’t protect is very much, especially when they are so big that a foetid stench of ubiquitous+slow+stupid pervades the atmosphere in the surrounding area.
Like living downwind from a paper mill.
Would some or all readers of my not-phishing blog, who are saddled with IE-on-Windows setups, please go tell them to get their heads out their asses at MS Central? You may quote me. Thanks.
update: It looks as if the Microsoft IE7 Phishing Filter is detecting my comment form, somehow, and thinking I’m gathering email addresses for nefarious purposes. Interestingly, other blogs don’t seem to have this problem. Something maybe about the del.icio.us transclusion I use?
links for 2007-07-08
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“His model is the most viable model for building a model.”
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“Perhaps you could try harder next time out. Pay a little more attention to the procedural questions, maybe.”
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via Open Reading Frame
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Another live thesis editing experiment.
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Wiki-editing a Masters Thesis, live.
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Free ≠ Open
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Free ≠ Open
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This may or may not be true each discipline; depends on their folkways.
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lolDirt: “i made you a volcano, but i breaked it.”
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Catching up on old posts of new-discoverd blog: Open-access peer reviewers’ comments. Good idea.
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“OSAHS is an important risk factor for the development of insulin resistance. It shows that OSAHS may develop IR of the patients and the treatment of MUPPP and CPAP can improve insulin sensitivity.”
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“It is possible that OSAS may predispose even nonobese patients to the development of metabolic syndrome.”
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read the comments for advice on life-changing decisions, young folks
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“The real killer is ego: what if someone else gets there first?”
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Discovery is the addiction that drives research — it’s the crackpipe hit, the rush, the thrill, that keeps us going through the down times and the plodding; but one of the best ways to alleviate the boredom and despondency that sets in between fixes is t
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Absolutely frackin’ brilliant
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“Give a damn. Your students are not fungible data-production units…”
Does anybody need Pownce, still?
I have five four nine (!?) Pownce invites left. Maybe if enough interesting people (approximately equal to my readers, and I’m not currying favor) join, maybe something good will come of it?
But Twitter is way ahead for immediate obvious functionality.
Comments will do.
links for 2007-07-07
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It may have an effect on the underlying dynamics of market prices… but it seems like a rule of decreasing importance as the tick resolution of trading increases.
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Paper explaining results of SEC’s pilot test of limited SHO short-sale price-test removal.
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