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Falling in Love with Software

Falling in Love with Software 08/11/2004 03:38 PM

Ken Schafer loves his FeedDemon:

"Is it possible to fall in love with a piece of software? Yes it is. FeedDemon entered my life several months ago and has radically changed the way I think about the web, how I communicate, and my very conception of what it means to be connected."

Thanks, Ken!

Falling in Love With More Than One
Screensaver: The Fun Part

Falling in Love With More Than One
Screensaver: The Fun Part 08/03/2004 08:03 PM
WebDevInfo Aug 3 2004 11:28PM GMT

Falling in love bends genders (Reuters)

Falling in love bends genders (Reuters) 05/05/2004 01:57 PM
Reuters - Falling in love -- that crazy, blissful feeling -- causes gender-bender changes in men and women's testosterone levels.

Falling in love as obsessive compulsive
disorder

Falling in love as obsessive compulsive
disorder 11/13/2003 02:52 PM
not an emotion

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Falling in Love -- a Gender-Bending
Experience (Reuters)

Falling in Love -- a Gender-Bending
Experience (Reuters) 05/06/2004 08:39 AM
Reuters - Falling in love -- that crazy, blissful feeling -- causes gender-bender changes in men and women's testosterone levels.

For Consumers Unable to Declare
Bankruptcy Under New Federal Law, Debt
Reduction Software Provides Alternative
to Debt Counseling

For Consumers Unable to Declare
Bankruptcy Under New Federal Law, Debt
Reduction Software Provides Alternative
to Debt Counseling 04/18/2005 03:09 PM
DebtBlaster software helps the consumer create a month-by-month debt management plan in the privacy and comfort of home, avoiding the embarrassment of disclosing finances to a stranger and the high fees often charged by debt counselors. [PRWEB Apr 18, 2005]

Apple Pays Off $300M In Debt, Becomes
Debt Free

Apple Pays Off $300M In Debt, Becomes
Debt Free 02/18/2004 08:12 PM
(MacNN via MyAppleMenu)

Debt Consolidator Pro – New technology
for eliminating consumer debt

Debt Consolidator Pro – New technology
for eliminating consumer debt 09/10/2004 03:49 AM
X2 Enterprises has just released Debt Consolidator Pro, which can help consumers to literally save thousands of dollars in interest on their interest-accruing debts. [PRWEB Sep 10, 2004]

Fast Debt Consolidation - Consolidate
Debt

Fast Debt Consolidation - Consolidate
Debt 08/19/2004 12:33 PM
debt consolidation

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Casinos Get Greedy

Casinos Get Greedy 04/12/2004 03:33 PM
They may no longer market strictly to losers, but some still do.

Ruling due on online casinos

Ruling due on online casinos 04/08/2005 08:26 AM
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Quality Online Casinos

Quality Online Casinos 04/06/2005 03:02 AM
Quality Casino Sites database provides the safest and most secure online casinos with great payouts and bonuses. [PRWEB Apr 6, 2005]

Online Casinos Fight Fraud on the Net

Online Casinos Fight Fraud on the Net 09/06/2004 11:41 PM
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Don King barred for year from N.J.
casinos

Don King barred for year from N.J.
casinos 04/28/2004 06:57 PM

Online casinos can't stop pokerbots

Online casinos can't stop pokerbots 09/22/2004 10:22 AM
Cory Doctorow: Ed Felten's posted a fascinating rumination on the impossibility of excluding bots from online poker games, and what that means for online casinos:

By reiterating their anti-bot and anti-collusion rules, and by claiming to have mysterious enforcement mechanisms, online casinos may be able to stem the tide of cheating for a while. But eventually, bots and collusion will become the norm, and lone human players will be driven out of all but the lowest stakes games.

But there is another strategy. An online casino could encourage bots, and even set up bots-only games. The game would then become not a human vs. human card game but a human vs. human battle between bot designers for geekly mastery. I'll bet there are plenty of programmers out there who would like to give it a try.

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Casinos plan 'blow' for Glasgow

Casinos plan 'blow' for Glasgow 04/06/2005 05:37 AM
Glasgow will lose out on extra income and new jobs because of the deal to scale down plans for "super casinos", it is claimed.

Online Blackjack : Best Internet Casinos

Online Blackjack : Best Internet Casinos 02/13/2004 07:16 AM
blackjack

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Are You a Perpetual Bad Relationship
Magnet? Nobody's Unlucky in Love:
Learning Core Causes for Lousy Love
Relationships

Are You a Perpetual Bad Relationship
Magnet? Nobody's Unlucky in Love:
Learning Core Causes for Lousy Love
Relationships 06/18/2004 03:10 AM
Relationship advisor and author Nancy Pina dispenses free relationship advice to adults struggling with individual, couples and marriage issues. She advises teens and young adults in recognizing healthy, loving relationships. [PRWEB Jun 18, 2004]

Mysterious power outage KOs casinos in
Vegas

Mysterious power outage KOs casinos in
Vegas 04/12/2004 09:59 AM
Our pals at Gawker forward this tip from reader Audrey Bath about a bizarre power outage affecting casinos and hotels in Las Vegas for the past couple of days -- sounds uncannily like a scene from a recent movie filmed at the affected property:

I thought you might be amused to learn that Las Vegas' premiere hotel, the 5-star Bellagio Hotel, lost all power at 2:30am Sunday (Easter) and power has not yet been restored. As of right now, there is no access to their website, and no updated information. It is THE big story in Las Vegas.

No definitive word yet on why no power, but it appears a truck hit a transformer behind the hotel, on the new Frank Sinatra Drive. The hotel is said to have been 2/3 full (2,000 guests) and thousands of employees have not been able to go to work. All of the hotels' restaurants are closed, every gaming table and slot machine is dark, even the fountains are not operating. There are no elevators, no escalators, no Cirque du Soleil. Only the Bellagio Hotel is affected by the outage, and generators have not kicked in. (It's eerily like "Ocean's Eleven" which was filmed in part at the hotel 3 years ago.)

Some guests have insisted on remaining at the dark hotel; all others have been transferred to the "sister properties" like the Mirage, Treasure Island and MGM Grand. My husband is a chef at Picasso, the top restaurant in Las Vegas, located at the Bellagio, and he was told not to return to work tomorrow because power will not be back on. Power is not expected to be restored until possibly late Monday night. It's a very weird scene.

Link to story in Las Vegas Review-Journal

Casinos Bet on Gambling Addiction Web
Site (Reuters)

Casinos Bet on Gambling Addiction Web
Site (Reuters) 04/12/2004 10:01 AM
Reuters - Compulsive Australian gamblers seeking help from Gamblers Anonymous are being hit with online casino pop-up advertisements when they visit the Web site of the self-help group, the Daily Telegraph newspaper says.

Women raise the stakes for online
casinos

Women raise the stakes for online
casinos 06/12/2004 08:10 PM
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Boys love games, girls love ringtones

Boys love games, girls love ringtones 06/02/2004 10:08 AM
But neither gives a hoot for 3G

Chris Abraham: Liberals Find Mad Love at
Act For Love

Chris Abraham: Liberals Find Mad Love at
Act For Love 06/22/2005 02:45 AM
Liberals Find Mad Love at Act For Love .. Permalink

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U.S. Steps Up Push Against Online
Casinos by Seizing Cash

U.S. Steps Up Push Against Online
Casinos by Seizing Cash 05/31/2004 12:59 AM
United States marshals have been cracking down on Internet gambling. Federal prosecutors contend that online gambling sites are illegal, but the offshore casinos featured on the sites fall outside their jurisdiction.

Online Casinos Advertising Over Gamblers
Anonymous Page

Online Casinos Advertising Over Gamblers
Anonymous Page 04/09/2004 04:04 PM
It's not entirely clear what's happening here, but people are saying that when they visit the Gambler's Anonymous website in Australia, they're receiving pop-up ads for online casinos. As you might imagine, this is not considered appropriate. However, I'm confused as to what's actually happening. The folks running the Gambler's Anonymous site say that they have no control over the pop-ups, which wouldn't make sense if it's their site. Also, I visited the site and there don't seem to be any pop-ups at all. About the only thing I can guess is that these pop-ups are being caused by the type of insidious adware that we've been talking about quite frequently today. It would be nice if the report had more details.

Electronic Arts to Stop Advertising for
Online Casinos on Its Web ...

Electronic Arts to Stop Advertising for
Online Casinos on Its Web ... 06/12/2004 07:02 PM
Spartanburg Herald Journal (subscription),SC-9 hours ago ... The decision, which the company said would take effect soon, follows similar announcements in recent months by Google and Yahoo, the Internet titans, and some ...

"Wait... they don't love you like I love
you" [sorry, got stuck in my head]

"Wait... they don't love you like I love
you" [sorry, got stuck in my head] 03/25/2005 04:09 PM
Social Explorer. "Social Explorer is dedicated to providing demographic information in an easily understood format, data maps. We serve hundreds of interactive data maps of United States. Here, you can visually analyze and understand the demography of the U.S., explore your neighborhood and learn about the people that live around you."

Love Macs? Then Learn To Love Macsurfer

Love Macs? Then Learn To Love Macsurfer 05/19/2004 08:55 AM
It does a bang up job of providing the Apple community with interesting reads day in day out. By Hadley Stern, O'Reilly Network (via MyAppleMenu)

I love women...no, wait, apparently I
love men

I love women...no, wait, apparently I
love men 01/04/2004 04:59 AM
mirror.co.uk

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SunHerald.com: Your guide to news,
casinos, jobs, homes, cars

SunHerald.com: Your guide to news,
casinos, jobs, homes, cars 02/12/2004 06:26 AM
Bush moved to Alabama unit without Air Force permission .. More proof of Bush being AWOL .. SunHerald.com:

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Electronic Arts to Stop Advertising for
Online Casinos on Its Web Site

Electronic Arts to Stop Advertising for
Online Casinos on Its Web Site 06/12/2004 12:02 AM
Electronic Arts, the video game giant, delivers a blow to the online casino industry with a decision to stop running advertisements for Internet casinos on its website.

Red hot poker: Online, on TV, in
casinos, in kitchens and basements,
flirting with lady luck via the

Red hot poker: Online, on TV, in
casinos, in kitchens and basements,
flirting with lady luck via the 06/30/2004 09:18 PM
Canada.com - Mon Jun 28, 11:44 am GMT

PRWeek.com exclusive: Online casinos
strive to rise above marketing
constraints

PRWeek.com exclusive: Online casinos
strive to rise above marketing
constraints 03/14/2005 05:23 PM
Prweek.com - Sun Mar 13, 07:57 am GMT

The Irish Have a New Jackass: If You
Like Dumb, Stupid and Funny Stuff, Then
You Will Love This New Site From a Group
of Crazy Mental Irish guys Who Just Love
to Party

The Irish Have a New Jackass: If You
Like Dumb, Stupid and Funny Stuff, Then
You Will Love This New Site From a Group
of Crazy Mental Irish guys Who Just Love
to Party 03/22/2005 04:47 PM
The Americans have Jackass while the Irish have the Crazy mental team. These guys film all their stupid and funny stuff for our enjoyment, from driving a Ferrari 355 at breakneck speeds around the Hollywood hills in Los Angeles to drilling a hole in one of their arms with a hammer drill, these guys are really crazy. [PRWEB Mar 21, 2005]

Against Love: Love Politics Revisited

Against Love: Love Politics Revisited 03/22/2005 04:54 PM

The Idea: Author Laura Kipnis argues that monogamy is unnatural and unhealthy, and possibly complicit in our emotional detachment from political life and our ecosystem as well. Laura Kipnis, despite the title of of her 200-page "polemic", is not Against Love. Rather, she's against the trappings, the rules, the rituals that our culture imposes on love relationships. She goes even further -- she sees marriage, the institution, as every bit as repressive, suffocating and unnatural as our mind-numbing employment in modern hierarchical organizations, and draws strong parallels between the slavery of the workplace and the slavery of the matrimonial home. These two canons of civilization: our need and responsibility to devote our daytime hours to meaningless subordinate labour, and our need and responsibility to devote the rest of our hours to boring, stifling and unsatisfying monogamy, work together diabolically to keep us suppressed, and in our 'place' in society. Small wonder, she says, that one of our most enduring conventional wisdoms is that "a good marriage takes work". If this protestation against the rigours of monogamy, fidelity and marriage-slavery as the complement to wage-slavery sounds familiar, it's because it's very similar to the argument that Glenn Parton made in his essay posted first on these pages last year entitled "Love Politics". Glenn's argument is that we have become so emotionally numbed by our twin bondage to job and marriage that it has made our hearts cold and hard, uncaring of the plight of our planet and of others, and that this is a direct cause of the destruction of our world. "If I'm miserable, why should I care about anyone else?" Dare to love more than one person, he suggests, and the shackles of this self-imposed imprisonment are broken, and the inrush of emotion will shock us into awareness of, and eagerness to heal, the massive emotional and physical illness of our entire planet. Why should we, why do we subject ourselves to this one-love-partner-slavery as easily and as passively as we do to wage-slavery? This is the subject of much of Ms. Kipnis' book. Her prose is so adept and so powerful I won't attempt to paraphrase her arguments. Here are a few teasers: Is it the persistence of the work ethic that ties us to the compassionate couple and its workaday regimes, or is it the ethos of compassionate coupledom that ties us to sould-deadening work regimes...Resenting the boss? Feeling bored or overworked or dissatisfied? Getting complaints about your attitude? Whether it's "on the relationship" or "on the job" get yourself right to the therapist's office, pronto. There are only two possible diagnoses for all such modern ailments: it's going to be either "intimacy issues" or "authority issues". You'll soon discover that the disease doubles as the prescription at this clinic: You're just going to have to "work harder on yourself"... Take the modern consumer. Clearly, routing desire into consumption would be necessary to sustain a consumer society -- a citizenry who fucked in lieu of shopping would soon bring the entire economy grinding to a standstill. Or better still, take the modern depressive. What a boon to both the modern pharmaceutical and the social-harmony industries that such a social type would be. These are merely hypotheticals of course, since it's not as if we live in a society of consumers and depressives, or as if the best strategy for the latter weren't widely held to be strategically indulging in the former -- "retail therapy"...Love's proper denouement, matrimony, is also of course the social form regulated by the state, which refashions itself as a benevolent pharmacist, doling out the addictive substance in licensed doses...What about re-envisioning [marriage] or... insisting that social resources and privileges not be allocated on the basis of marital status? No. let's demand regulation! Not that it's easy to re-envision anything when these intersections of love and acquiescence are the very backbone of the modern self, when every iota of self-worth and identity hinge on them...Domestic coupledom is the boot camp for compliant citizenship, a training ground for gluey resignation and immobility... Ms. Kipnis suggests the same lack of innovation that permeates the workplace in the 21st century also permeates domestic institutions: Different social norms could entail something entirely different: yearly renewable contracts for example. And if we weren't so emotionally yoked to the social forms we've inherited that trying to envision different ways of having a love life seems intellectually impossible and even absurd, who knows what other options might present themselves?...It behooves [our] society to convince its citizenry that wanting change means personal failure, starting over is shameful, and wanting more satisfaction than you have is illegitimate...As love has increasingly become the center of all emotional expression in the modern imagination -- the quantity without which life seems forlorn -- anxiety about obtaining it in sufficient quantities and for sufficient duration has increased to the point that that anxiety suffuses the population, and most of our cultural forms...Uncoupling [then] can only be experienced as ego-crushing crisis and inadequacy...[and] the grief of failed love is exacerbated by inevitable feelings of personal failure... Much of the latter part of the book is focused on the psychological gymnastics of all three (or more) parties in the polygon of adultery, from the rationalization that hiding the affair is to protect the feelings of the cuckold, to the feelings of self-hatred and self-flagellation of the 'sinner(s)'. She also discusses the awkward mechanics of the ultimate break-up of either the marriage or the affair (or both), and the degree to which children of the relationship become hostages, or excuses for deception, or excuses for the boredom that gave rise to the deception. Of course the book also talks about famous infidelities in high political circles, and the twisted hypocrisy of conservatives' opposition to same-sex marriage, as well as the equal-opportunity-for-misery desire of lesbians and gays to gain access to the sad and repressive regulation of 'official' marriage rather than 'settling for' merely the legal and resource rights that come with equivalent-to-married status. And there's also a discussion of the pragmatic phenomenon of "serial monogamy" -- the fall-back that there's nothing wrong with marriage per se, it's just that we were all married to the wrong person. All of this is complicated (even more) by the emergence of the Two-Income Trap, which imposes a financial prison on top of the emotional one in marriage. We have to stay together because we can't afford to live apart. I am convinced that this one factor is overwhelmingly responsible for keeping the rate of divorce from reaching astronomical levels. It is also probably helpful in keeping birth rates in the West below replacement levels -- Not only can we not afford children, we certainly don't want any (or any more) with the spouse we're economically shackled to. And having one with the secret love is just too messy. In my recent article predicting a baby boom, perhaps I underestimated the sheer perverseness of a socioeconomic system that not only makes parenthood financially reckless, it also suppresses fertility rates by its expressed moral repugnance for having a child by someone other than your boring spouse. A lot of people, some of their own free will, and many more who have been pushed, have recently broken free of wage slavery and are now working, mostly for much less income, for themselves. That's probably a good thing in many ways -- it reduces the supply of the remaining wage slaves, which might actually, in time, allow them to bargain from a position of at least a bit of power. It increases self-sufficiency. It reduces excessive consumption. What if there were a similar revolution against marriage slavery? What if a whole generation just refused to define themselves (in more ways than one) as married, or to live with the constraints of monogamy, and instead opted for a polyamory life-style? Paternity 'rights' and responsibilities would both probably suffer, as the new family unit would be a woman (or possibly, and more logically, a group of women, in self-selected community) and their children. They would have the power, and could strike whatever contract they chose with males who wanted the responsibilities and privileges of fatherhood. The nuclear family and the 'single-family dwelling' would disappear. Conjugal relations would not attach to parental responsibility, and could be negotiated between any two people as individuals on a one-shot basis, with no responsibility other than the responsibility to prevent unwanted pregnancy and disease. This would probably be bad for the oldest profession, as the supply/demand ratio for quick couplings would soar. Jealousy and the consequent domestic violence that is the scourge of our nuclear spouse-as-property society would, slowly (old habits die hard), disappear. I think the vast majority of men, driven by million-year-old biological imperatives, once they reached a certain age, would choose to attach themselves to one of the matriarchal communities (if so invited), and would do their share to provide for its well-being, in return for the company and sense of purpose that would bring. We are told it takes a village, a community, to raise a child. Perhaps the community is necessary, and sufficient, for far more: To break us all free from both the emotionally numbing subjugation of wage-slavery and the misery and boredom of marriage-slavery. The community would then become truly self-sufficient in every respect, and we would be happier and freer than we can, or dare, imagine. Cartoon: By Peter Steiner from The New Yorker, in the Cartoon Bank

The Sky Is Falling! Again!

The Sky Is Falling! Again! 03/06/2004 02:06 AM
The Macintosh community is still active and alive. (Damien Barrett via MyAppleMenu)

The Sky is Not Falling

The Sky is Not Falling 05/15/2004 11:13 AM
Now that everyone seems to be pissing and moaning about the licensing fees for MovableType 3.0 (or migrating to WordPress), I see that Mena has posted a clarification of sorts. Not only that, they've made a few adjustments to their plans based on all the feedback they've received. (Gee, just maybe they're not evil after all?) As Brad notes, their definition of weblog for licensing purposes is different than the definition of weblog in MovableType. That seems to have been...

Free falling, $3K

Free falling, $3K 09/14/2004 08:23 PM
USA Today Sep 15 2004 0:25AM GMT

Bits keep falling from the sky

Bits keep falling from the sky 04/26/2004 07:05 PM
I've been fooling around with BitTorrent lately. Nothing big, just fiddling to see how it all works and playing around a bit. (Yeah, OK, I admit it--I've been snagging manga scanslations off the shub-internet :) Definitely a cool idea, though the reference implementation lacks some things that'd make it otherwise handy. Things like a global rate limit and client cap, handy for those of us with full-time internet connections that don't mind being seeds for a directory full 'o stuff, but don't have that much bandwidth on hand. (I don't at all mind letting a torrent client run for a...
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