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The Post has an interesting story on
Saddam Hussein's miscaluclations
The Post has an interesting story on
Saddam Hussein's miscaluclations
11/04/2003 06:26 AMhe thought the ground thrust was a
ruse
washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55022-2003Nov2.html
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Is Civility An Endangered Species In The
Blogosphere? (Interesting Comments On
This Post)
Is Civility An Endangered Species In The
Blogosphere? (Interesting Comments On
This Post)
07/08/2004 05:47 AMan actually-pretty-good Daniel Drezner post ..
explains
danieldrezner.com/archives/001414.html
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"Debka"
"Debka"
03/21/2003 09:14 AM"IRAQ SARIN UPDATE: Blaster's Blog has
an interesting observation --
apparently, it can't be an old shell, as
some are claiming. And scroll down for
lots of other interesting stuff that
deserves more attention..."
"IRAQ SARIN UPDATE: Blaster's Blog has
an interesting observation --
apparently, it can't be an old shell, as
some are claiming. And scroll down for
lots of other interesting stuff that
deserves more attention..."
05/20/2004 02:30 AMBlowback: The Cost And Consequences of
American Empire plus War And Conflict In
The Post-Cold War, Post-9/11 Era
Blowback: The Cost And Consequences of
American Empire plus War And Conflict In
The Post-Cold War, Post-9/11 Era
03/13/2003 10:25 AM Chalmers
Johnson is an provocative proponent of the
American Empire
theory, indeed. Here are excerpts from his
Blow Back: The Cost
And Consequences of American EmpireI heard Johnson
interviewed on Episode II,
War And Conflict In The Post-Cold War,
Post-9/11 Era of
The Whole Wide World
The Cold War and its central conflict - the physical and
ideological battles between the United States, the Soviet Union and
their proxy states - imposed a certain logic and consistency on the
world. Take that away and add the bloody wars in the Balkans, Africa
and the Middle East in the ‘90s as well as the terror attacks and
warnings of more recent times and you get a very confused picture of a
world at war. Is this breaking storm in Iraq about oil, democracy,
freedom, empire, culture, water, diamonds, modernizing Islam or nation
building in the Middle East? Some, one or all of these
things?It was an excellent program and well worth your
listen, either by RA now or mp3 later.
(From listening to the
radio) Belarus post to install public internet
access terminals in village post offices
Belarus post to install public internet
access terminals in village post offices
04/09/2005 05:19 AMDMeurope.com Apr 9 2005 9:28AM GMT
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character of its author and his
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09/01/2004 11:08 PM
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05/20/2004 02:30 AMInteresting reading
Interesting reading
04/04/2005 06:48 PM## Peter Drucker looks
at the big picture of the world economy today -- really four
economies, he says: information, money, multinationals and mercantile
exchange.
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For thirty years after World War II, the U.S. economy dominated
practically without serious competition. For another twenty years it
was clearly the world's foremost economy and especially the undisputed
leader in technology and innovation. Though the United States today
still dominates the world economy of information, it is only one major
player in the three other world economies of money, multinationals and
trade. And it is facing rivals that, either singly or in combination,
could
conceivably make America Number Two. |
## Cy
nthia Ozick reviews Joseph Lelyveld's memoir. I haven't read the
book, but the former N.Y. Times editor apparently did a vast amount of
legwork researching his own childhood. This is Ozick's discussion of
the limitations of Lelyveld's approach:
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...There is no all-pervading Proustian madeleine in Lelyveld's
workaday prose. Yet salted through this short work is the smarting of
an unpretentious lamentation: ''If this were a novel,'' ''If I were
using these events in a novel,'' and so on. Flickeringly, the writer
appears to see what is missing; and what is missing is the intuitive,
the metaphoric, the uncertain, the introspective with its untethered
vagaries: in brief, the not-nailed-down. Consequently Lelyveld's
memory loop becomes a memory hole, through which everything that is
not factually retrievable escapes. Memory, at bottom, is an act of
imaginative re-creation, not of archival legwork. ''Yes, I was
finding, it was possible to do a reporting job on your childhood,''
Lelyveld insists. Yes? Perhaps no. The memoirist has this in common
with the novelist: he is like the watchful spider alert to every
quiver on its lines. Sensation, not research. |
Well put. I think one of the reasons I chose, as a young writer, a
career as a critic rather than as a reporter was that I could not see
devoting my life to writing that was all "nailed-down." Reporting is a
necessary and valuable skill, and I have deep respect for those who do
it well; it's hard, hard work, too. But it will typically miss that
dimension of "the intuitive, the metaphoric, the uncertain, the
introspective." In American journalism as it is conventionally defined
by those who carve out the job descriptions, a critic's portfolio is
broader, and it's possible, under the right alignment of stars, to
feel as well as to record -- or rather, to record what one has felt
along with what one has witnessed.
## Apparently there's a movement afoot in the world of
writing about games to be less "nailed-down." It's called the "New Games
Journalism" -- "a narrative, experiential approach that
acknowledges the effect of the game on the player." I'll need to read
up. This was sort of what I had in mind 15 years ago when I began to
move my attention from the world of theater to the digital realm, and
thought, hey, why not try writing more ambitious reviews of
videogames? I'd just turned 30, though, and was already feeling that
the gaming world was one I would be less and less able to keep up with
as the decades advanced. (So right!) So I wrote one opus -- an
"experiential" discourse on the world of Super Mario -- and moved
on to broader terrain.
Bad Name, Interesting Product
Bad Name, Interesting Product
11/17/2003 03:02 PM The Washington Post doesn't begin to describe what Koolspan, the
company with the bad name, does: But I spoke with Koolspan's vice
president of marketing at a conference a few weeks ago and got the
scoop. Koolspan is marketing a smart card solution that authenticates
users and encrypts data over Wi-Fi networks. The solution is designed
for small to medium sized businesses that don't already have a RADIUS
server for authentication. Customers must load software onto their APs
which allows the APs to recognize user keys and authenticate the
users. End users have a smart card that plugs into the USB port of
their computer. The card encrypts the data sent from the laptop. The
data is decrypted by an appliance that sits in the enterprise network,
where the data is sent onward. The card supports 802.1X and performs
AES encryption. The nice thing about smart cards is that they
essentially authenticate the user. A user inputs a password to release
the keys on the smart card. That means that it's virtually impossible
for two people to log on as the same user at the same time. Gemplus, a
maker of smart cards (or subscriber identity modules, SIM cards) for
GSM networks, is also making a solution aimed at securing Wi-Fi
networks. Smart card solutions have a better chance of taking off in
Europe where all cell phones already use SIM cards but it's a secure
solution that's worth looking at in the U.S....
This is an interesting article
This is an interesting article
12/04/2003 07:13 AMHow Much Is Privacy
Worth?
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"this interesting do-it-yourself
project"
"this interesting do-it-yourself
project"
09/15/2004 09:31 PM"has some interesting thoughts as well"
"has some interesting thoughts as well"
06/29/2004 09:15 AMSo many interesting facts to know and
use
So many interesting facts to know and
use
03/14/2005 05:38 PMThe amazing interstingness of miscellany, specifically Schott's Food
and Drink Miscellany has provided me with several hours of pre-sleep
delight as I've perused its pages in bed. Last night I discovered that
both the loganberry and the boysenberry are not in fact wild berries,
but derivatives of raspberries! Beneath the heading, "Epicurean
Eponyms," Mr. Schott explains:
LOGANBERRY · the sweet purple berry of the raspberry plant
Rubus loganobaccus · created by the American judge and
experimental horticulturalist James Harvey Logan, who developed the
plant (c.1881). Some forty years later the botanist Rudolph Boysen
created the hybrid BOYSENBERRY from the loganberry, the raspberry, and
the blackberry.
No wonder I've never seen a loganberry bush in the wild! I'm loving
this little book and all its wonders. Highly recommended for any
foodie or food-curious person.
Technology Without Any Interesting
Technology Without Any Interesting
09/17/2004 02:32 AMTechTree Sep 17 2004 6:31AM GMT
The Interesting Yezidis
The Interesting Yezidis
09/17/2004 08:36 AM
Devil
Worship: The Sacred Books and Traditions of the Yezidiz , by Isya
Joseph, 1919. 'This is one of the only public domain sources of
information on the religious beliefs of the Yezidi, a small group
originally from the northern region of Iraq. Although they speak
Kurdish, they are a distinct population from the Kurds. The Yezidi are
notable because they have been described as devil-worshippers, which
has naturally led to constant persecution by the dominant Islamic
culture of the region ... They have many unique beliefs, such as that
the first Yezidi were created by Adam by parthenogenesis separately
from Eve ... ' New on
sacred-texts.com. "interesting article on WMD:"
"interesting article on WMD:"
04/27/2004 09:23 PMinteresting commentary
interesting commentary
01/05/2004 01:10 AMceded the protections .. WAR CRIMES IN IRAQ? .. Sasha
Castel
coldfury.com/Sasha/archives/004549.html#004549
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Interesting Thing of the Day
Interesting Thing of the Day
06/04/2004 03:50 AM
San
Francisco’s Terra Infirma and other
Interesting Things of the Day.
Putting the muse back
in museum was another that struck me with its focus on
unconventionally-themed museums, reminiscent of the roadside
attractions in
Gaiman's
American
Gods.
Audio feeds of
recent articles are available, and well read, but it seems that most
of the clips are intended to become available by subscription-only.
Regardless, many of the
past
year's articles make for fascinating reads. (via
bsag)
Interesting piece
Interesting piece
08/21/2004 08:16 PMchicagotribune.com/news/specials/elections/chi-040821kerry,1,681487
3.story?coll=chi-news-hed
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Interesting: Googlert
Interesting: Googlert
01/22/2003 09:30 AMInteresting: Googlert
This looks neat. [_Go_]
Note: Currently untried by me. If I could remember where I stored
down my Google key, I'd probably even try it. Thanks to Andy for
pointing it out.
An interesting set of GC papers
An interesting set of GC papers
09/16/2004 03:06 PM Courtesy, indirectly, of the VEE workshop:
http://cs.anu.edu.au/~Steve.Blackburn/pubs/abstracts.html Looks like
maybe read barriers aren't as bad as I thought they might be. May well
be worth more investigation in getting infrastructure set up....
Some interesting Blog statistics
Some interesting Blog statistics
05/24/2004 07:44 AMHow many people are starting blogs each day? That is a question
that the staff at Technorati
answered at their first ever developers Salon. The numbers are quite
shocking.
- 3,000 a day in January 2003
- 4,000 a day by that March
- 6,000 a day by June 2003
- 8,000-9,000 new blogs a day by September 2003
- 10,000 at the end of 2003
- 11,000 to 12,000 new blogs a day today
Along with those amazing numbers are some others. Very interesting
stats to say the least. [New Media Musings]
Interesting Things to Know about MySQL
Interesting Things to Know about MySQL
06/14/2004 07:21 PM"If you do a lot of tracking, you may want to write the information to
a Berkeley DB.
Contrary to the name Berkeley DB is not a database but a hash, or
there is an option for
b-tree format. MySQL can use Berkeley DB for the underlying table
structure. It's very fast,
and you won't get logs of your logs. If you're using Linux,
Berkeley DB is already installed
on your system. Ok, so how does one use Berkeley DB? Samples can
be found at the following
link. Look for berkeley
Portables at E3: From Interesting to
Awful
Portables at E3: From Interesting to
Awful
05/14/2004 04:35 PMAnother interesting observation about
parallels between GWB & JFK
Another interesting observation about
parallels between GWB & JFK
11/13/2003 10:09 AMNovember 2003, Part 2 - Jim Miller on Politics .. Jim Miller doesn't
think so
seanet.com/~jimxc/Politics/November2003_2.html#jrm1583
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Laws from interesting people
Laws from interesting people
01/11/2004 02:42 PMEdge.org has asked a bunch of interesting people to formulate bits of
wisdom phrased as "laws" -- they're quite good.
Morgan's Second Law: To a first approximation all appointments are
canceled.
Brand's Pace Law: In haste, mistakes cascade. With deliberation,
mistakes instruct.
Sterling's Corollary to Clarke's Law: Any sufficiently advanced
garbage is indistinguishable from magic.
Link
(
via Kottke)
Most interesting websites of 2003
Most interesting websites of 2003
12/30/2003 07:37 PMGoogle's Zeitgeist has been automatically tracking the changing
frequency of search requests since January of 2001, and the annual
version of the search ...
Interesting TiVO landmark....
Interesting TiVO landmark....
02/10/2004 02:47 AM
The close of Mr. Timberlake and Ms. Jackson's halftime
duet drew the biggest spike in audience reaction TiVo has ever
measured, the company says. Viewership spiked up to 180 percent as
viewers used TiVo DVR capabilities to pause and replay live television
to view the incident again and again.Interesting new thing from Google
Interesting new thing from Google
12/26/2004 06:49 PMlabs.google.com/suggest
labs.google.com/suggest
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Play with Interesting Sites
Play with Interesting Sites
02/12/2004 11:32 PMHere are a couple of third-party services that libraries could take
advantage of to experiment with new services!
-
WINKsite
Alan Reiter highlighted this site
today because he used it to transform his Camera Phone Report
Weblog into a stripped down version suitable for mobile devices.
This free (for the moment), hosted service will work best if your
library has a blog because you can feed it the URL of your RSS feed
and it will automatically aggregate your content on your WINKsite.
Like Alan, I was able to create a WINKsite version of The
Shifted Librarian in about five minutes. You
can view what it looks like in this emulator on a computer or
you can go to http://winksite.com/jayhawk
/shifted to see it on your mobile device! Although the
software will eventually end up being sold to telecommunications
companies and middlemen, you can play with it now and add chat,
surveys, guestbooks, and more to your WINKsite, and you can even
create a pre-fed aggregator of feeds, say for local information for
patrons!
Will your people really use this now? Probably not. But it's fun to
play with, you could reach early adopters with it, and it
gives you a sense of how social networking, RSS, blogging, instant
messaging, mobility, and ubiquity will come together in the future.
Price to play: free!
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Furl
Furl is a web-based
bookmark site that's been getting a lot of play recently and along
with del.icio.us, it has been
mentioned by many librarians in particular (Library Stuff caught both of them early on). I'm still playing with both
sites, but Will Richardson is
taking a more
active approach:
"Better yet, Furl lets you
create a bunch of different categories for the links you save and then
it'll even spit out an RSS feed for each category. Now I knew this was
pretty cool when I read it, and I started playing with the idea of
using Furl to send cool links to the various departments at my school
(since that's one piece of my job description that I never seem to get
to.) Well, here ya' go. My newly created English Department site
includes a page
just for links that is filled with sites that I have "Furled" and
pushed to the page via the RSS feed. Again, not rocket science, but a
pretty cool new process that allows me to update pages without ever
going there. That in itself is a time saver, and the fact that I can
annotate the links makes it even better.
Now, let's take it a step further. Say I share my Furl login with a
number of my colleagues who may be interested in, let's say, the
campaign of John
Edwards. Whenever we come across some relevant info, we just furl
the page into the Edwards category and it automatically gets sent to
our aggregator or to that special page we've made to archive our
research. Or how about this...my school sets up a Furl account, and
every browser has the Furl It link on it's toolbar. Whenever anyone at
my school sees a page of interest on the Web, they add it to our
collective database. Pretty cool concept..."
So if your library isn't already highlighting new web resources on
your site (internally or for patrons), or if your reference department
needs a better way than Post-It Notes to share and
organize links, give Furl a whirl (or del.icio.us)!
Interesting Take on Voice Over WLAN
Interesting Take on Voice Over WLAN
02/19/2004 12:43 PMRadioframe is touting its indoor GSM system as better than voice over
WLAN: Radioframe sells a platform that extends cellular coverage
inside an office building and connects to the office PBX so companies
can use their cell phones inside the building. When users are in the
building, minutes are cheaper than outside on the wide area cell
network. The company's CEO argues that even though usage of the WLAN
in the building doesn't cost, the handsets are so much more expensive
than cell phones that it makes more sense to use a system like
Radioframe's. I did a story a while back on voice over WLAN and found
that the handsets cost around the same as standard wired office
phones. So the difference could come down to a decision about whether
a cell phone offers the same features and functionalities that workers
typically want on their phones in the office. Plus, the Radioframe CEO
didn't discuss how the costs of deploying and maintaining its network
compares to deploying and maintaining a standard WLAN....
"this interesting commentary on the
Democrats"
"this interesting commentary on the
Democrats"
12/16/2003 08:48 PMMobcasting, an interesting idea
Mobcasting, an interesting idea
02/01/2005 08:50 PM Here's a pretty interesting idea, and there's lots of tools now
sitting around to make this happen. Andy Carvin spoke about how he
started mobcasting (mobile + podcasting + smart mobs = mobcasting)
Basically, using free tools like Blogger,...
Interesting Bits Of Panther
Interesting Bits Of Panther
10/28/2003 11:06 PMLet's take a look at some of these subtle changes in Panther and how
they work. By Adam C. Engst (TidBITS via MyAppleMenu)
The year of interesting IPOs
The year of interesting IPOs
06/26/2004 01:18 AMSunday Times South Africa Jun 26 2004 5:18AM GMT
this interesting column by Kristof
this interesting column by Kristof
03/19/2003 10:46 PMinterpretation is wrong .. Baghdad and Troy .. New York Times ..
separate .. helenic .. Troy
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Interesting New Tools at PHP Classes
Interesting New Tools at PHP Classes
03/21/2003 09:12 AMInteresting New Tools at PHP Classes
Hmm... Here are some interesting new tools for all of us. You
should really check out PHP Classes this week. There are even
new classes for Yahoo Calendar and VCard access. Recommended.
Googles New Picasa Leaves an Interesting
INI Behind
Googles New Picasa Leaves an Interesting
INI Behind
08/13/2004 07:32 AMAfter uninstalling the Picsca software, it leaves behind the programs
configuration INI. Now with a Google search, you can find these files
laying around on servers all over the web.
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