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Blog Popularity Inversely Proportional To Amount Of Quot Linking Quot-
quot- Summary: people link to bloggers that provide more original content than who just provide links to other places that do so. Funny because I was just thinking about this regarding this blog. I …
Richard Dawkins Mania In Silicon Valley
I was bummed that he didn’t come to Seattle on his tour, but I’ll enjoy listening to the mp3 of his appearance in Silicon Valley. Who Has Time For This?: Silicon Valley Loves Richard …
Verizon settles class Action suit about deceptive practices regarding crippled phones
This is great news. They did the same with other phones, including the e815 that I have. Fortunately, there are ways around this to re-enable the crippled features, but they are out of reach to most …
Ballot Design Not Dre Issues At Play In Fl Undervote Anomalies
It is hard to believe that such a blatant undervote error could be attributable solely to the DRE itself not properly recording them. But user interface designs can certainly be abused maliciously, or …
Scans From 1962 Fallout Shelter Handbook
The Ward-O-Matic: Fallout Shelter Handbook 1962 I’ve been working on emergency preparedness for my neighborhood lately so this is very apropos. BTW, I found a $79.99 Ready kit at Home Depot that …
Apostrophe Abuse Is Cruel
Boing Boing: Atrocious apostrophe’s and “quotation” “mark” “abuse” photo galleries Two Flikr galleries dedicated to photo’s of apostrophe and quotation …
2006 Gift Card Landscape
Good news about gift cards. I was just thinking the other day about these practices and it looks like, just in time for the holiday season, you can find out which ones have done away with those pesky …
The Official God FAQ
07:00 There is only one question and the answer is not 42. The Official God FAQ
On The Performance Of Ssl Vs Ws Security
I’ve been meaning to rant about this for a while. I’m sick and tired of hearing about the false dichotomy of WS-Security versus SSL and why its performance is somehow going to be so much …
Some Good News on the McCain Front: Attacking NOAA for delays in global warming report
Ugh. TPMmuckraker November 17, 2006 01:35 PM “You know,” McCain said a few moments later, “you are really one of the more astonishing witnesses that I have [faced] – in the 19 …