The Longest Time

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perhaps the longest ever

perhaps the longest ever 12/11/2003 07:20 AM
hereabouts .. discussion .. WONDERS

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Tie-Hash-Longest-1.1

Tie-Hash-Longest-1.1 11/17/2003 06:38 PM

The longest short IP Sec Paper

The longest short IP Sec Paper 02/01/2005 08:34 PM

Is Google News the longest beta ever?

Is Google News the longest beta ever? 02/01/2005 10:01 PM
Google News has been in 'Beta' for nearly two and a half years. Several million beta testers a day for...

Man Goes for Guinness Longest Hair
Record (AP)

Man Goes for Guinness Longest Hair
Record (AP) 06/21/2004 05:06 PM
AP - A Vietnamese man who hasn't been to a barber in 31 years is vying to get in the Guinness World Records for having the longest hair, state-controlled media reported Monday.

whats the longest word in Google?

whats the longest word in Google? 12/04/2003 11:53 PM
Hmm, it seems that Google has a limit on the size of words it will index - 128 characters. So...

The Longest Yard Online Games

The Longest Yard Online Games 04/01/2005 06:04 AM
Teenhollywood.com - Thu Mar 31, 07:06 pm GMT

Blair Labour's longest-serving PM

Blair Labour's longest-serving PM 02/06/2005 01:18 AM
Tony Blair becomes Labour's longest-serving prime minister as he marks 2,838 days in his post at Number 10.

World's Longest Email Address

World's Longest Email Address 01/01/2005 11:09 PM
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Laptops with the Longest Battery Life?

Laptops with the Longest Battery Life? 08/03/2004 05:47 PM

Welsh 'work the longest hours'

Welsh 'work the longest hours' 08/02/2004 03:17 AM
A report claims that people in Wales work the longest hours in the UK but are the least likely to feel rewarded.

Longest Physics Lecture in History?

Longest Physics Lecture in History? 12/04/2003 02:33 AM
Slashdot Dec 4 2003 2:15AM ET

Woman Claims to Have Longest Bridal Veil
(AP)

Woman Claims to Have Longest Bridal Veil
(AP) 06/09/2004 05:10 PM
AP - Here comes the bride, and there goes her veil — all 1.7 miles of it. Eva Hofbauer went to her wedding on Wednesday claiming to be wearing the longest bridal veil in the world, the Austria Press Agency reported.

World's Longest Concert Adds Two Notes
(AP)

World's Longest Concert Adds Two Notes
(AP) 07/05/2004 11:01 AM
AP - In an abandoned church in the German town of Halberstadt, the world's longest concert was coming two notes closer to its end Monday: Three years down, 636 to go.

Spirit Rover Makes Longest Trip Yet

Spirit Rover Makes Longest Trip Yet 02/17/2004 09:54 AM

World's longest snake goes on show
(Reuters)

World's longest snake goes on show
(Reuters) 12/30/2003 08:32 AM
Reuters - A recreation park in Indonesia is displaying a 15-metre (49 feet) python -- making it the longest ever captured -- that was revered as a tribal ruler and has a huge appetite for dogs.

World's longest snake comes up short
(Reuters)

World's longest snake comes up short
(Reuters) 01/07/2004 03:05 PM
Reuters - It's still a big snake, just not a record-breaker.

World's Longest Robotic Lego Ball Trail

World's Longest Robotic Lego Ball Trail 06/05/2005 11:13 PM
According to a link in the MAKE magazine blog, Lego fanatics have come up with a standard module design for robotic Lego ball trails. Lego builders from all over the world are building modules. Each module handles balls at one per second and has standardized in and out points. At BrickFest 2005, all the modules will be assembled into the world's largest ball trail, called The Great Ball Contraption. Photos and video of a 10 module test assembly are available online. The originators of the idea have started a list of modules that will be present at BrickFest.

Longest serial murder investigation in
U.S. history comes to a close.

Longest serial murder investigation in
U.S. history comes to a close. 11/05/2003 03:37 PM
"I killed so many women I have a hard time keeping them straight." With those chilling words, Gary Leon Ridgway (better known as the Green River Killer), plead guilty to the murder of 48 women. Previous discussion here...

Park Puts World's Longest Snake on Show
(Reuters)

Park Puts World's Longest Snake on Show
(Reuters) 12/30/2003 09:46 AM
Reuters - A recreation park in Indonesia is displaying a 49-foot python -- making it the longest ever captured -- that was revered as a tribal ruler and has a huge appetite for dogs.

Prince Rainier, Europe's Longest
Reigning Monarch, Dies at 81

Prince Rainier, Europe's Longest
Reigning Monarch, Dies at 81 04/06/2005 07:13 AM
Prince Rainier's storybook marriage to film star Grace Kelly helped promote the transformation of his tiny fief of Monaco.

Apple Store in Ginza yielded the longest
line of people

Apple Store in Ginza yielded the longest
line of people 12/10/2003 04:39 AM
Apple must be putting something in Tokyo's watersource .. Holy. Shit

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Yahoo! News - US factories enter longest
stretch of rapid growth in 30 years

Yahoo! News - US factories enter longest
stretch of rapid growth in 30 years 08/03/2004 12:06 AM
US factories enter longest stretch of rapid growth in 30 years .. good economic news .. it's so obvious

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Pilots on world's longest flight hooked
up to computers, activity watches to
monitor alertness

Pilots on world's longest flight hooked
up to computers, activity watches to
monitor alertness 06/29/2004 10:50 AM
AP via Newsday Jun 29 2004 1:43PM GMT

Shares slide after Microsoft, Coke,
Amazon disappoint; Dow notches longest
losing streak in almost two years

Shares slide after Microsoft, Coke,
Amazon disappoint; Dow notches longest
losing streak in almost two years 07/23/2004 09:55 PM
Sympatico Jul 24 2004 1:45AM GMT

"Time, time, time. It's such a current
subject." ...

"Time, time, time. It's such a current
subject." ... 12/02/2003 01:06 AM
"Time, time, time. It's such a current subject."

-Microserfs

Time’s up! Pharmaceutical experts offer
reps needed time management tools

Time’s up! Pharmaceutical experts offer
reps needed time management tools 07/30/2004 03:41 AM
Time management is one of the most important things a pharmaceutical sales representative can master. In this MedZilla article, sales consultants and representatives in the pharmaceutical space give their input about the time management process and tools that help reps focus on what’s important and eliminate what’s not. [PRWEB Jul 30, 2004]

eBay item 5563490518 (Ends Mar-12-05
19:34:43 PST) - TIME MACHINE ! For Time
Travel ? very low reserve

eBay item 5563490518 (Ends Mar-12-05
19:34:43 PST) - TIME MACHINE ! For Time
Travel ? very low reserve 04/18/2005 06:42 PM
Bet your very own non-working, fake as hell looking time machine here .. buy a time machine on eBay .. enchère .. 2239 .. dit

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Eliminating Lag Time: The Last Mile in
Creating a Real-Time Enterprise

Eliminating Lag Time: The Last Mile in
Creating a Real-Time Enterprise 04/06/2005 02:07 AM
Enterprise applications that were once confined to the corporate headquarters are now widely distributed to users across the extended enterprise. In this environment, it is critical that businesses deliver these applications in real time. After all, poor performance is no longer an annoying inconvenience; it can have a serious impact the business as a whole. [PRWEB Apr 6, 2005]

Time and Budgets uses iCal as a time,
billing tool

Time and Budgets uses iCal as a time,
billing tool 07/20/2004 12:54 PM
Small Town Software announced on Tuesday the release of Time and Budgets, a new application that integrates with Apple's iCal application to supply time and budgeting functions for projects. The software also works with any calendar program that supports WebDAV (Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning), which means .Mac subscribers can use iCal with the online service to seamlessly input data and generate reports that convert time into dollars and cents that can be compared against a project's budget. Available reports in Time and Budgets include time sheets with visual charts, details about time logged in specific phases and tasks, aggregate workgroup feedback and more. Another option can generate e-mail alerts when projects have reached certain financial goals.

TIME.com: TIME Exclusive: Notes from
Saddam in Custody

TIME.com: TIME Exclusive: Notes from
Saddam in Custody 12/14/2003 07:31 PM
TIME.com: TIME Exclusive: Notes from Saddam in Custody .. Saddam's first interrogation .. mouth of the jackass himself .. interrogation

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Time Management 101 for
Always-Time-Short Webmasters

Time Management 101 for
Always-Time-Short Webmasters 04/09/2004 04:06 PM
"At any given moment there is more on my plate than I could possibly handle in a day. My solution so far is..."

Europe Reluctantly Deciding It Has Less
Time for Time Off

Europe Reluctantly Deciding It Has Less
Time for Time Off 07/06/2004 10:11 PM
Many Europeans now believe that shorter hours, once seen as a way of spreading work among more people, have done little to ease unemployment.

MSN Search Hits Full Time Almost 100% of
the Time now

MSN Search Hits Full Time Almost 100% of
the Time now 02/01/2005 09:15 PM

Time Is Money Network Announces New
Fully Web-based Time Billing and Project
Management System for Software
Developers and Service Providers – Free
During Extended Trial Period

Time Is Money Network Announces New
Fully Web-based Time Billing and Project
Management System for Software
Developers and Service Providers – Free
During Extended Trial Period 06/24/2005 04:11 PM
TimeIsMoney.net is being offered at no cost for a limited time to anyone who wishes to try this new fully on-line, web-based time sheet management, time billing and project management system. TimeIsMoney.net was designed to serve the needs of large and small organizations with teams managing project resources locally or remotely. [PRWEB Jun 23, 2005]

Web Tracking of Billable Time Improves
Productivity and Bottom Line/New Kyebot
Time Tracking and Billing Software
Announces Availability

Web Tracking of Billable Time Improves
Productivity and Bottom Line/New Kyebot
Time Tracking and Billing Software
Announces Availability 09/13/2004 02:58 AM
New Web-based time and billing application simplifies administrative tasks associated with tracking billable hours and virtually eliminates problems with under-billing. [PRWEB Sep 13, 2004]

Time to discover the joy of giving - on
time

Time to discover the joy of giving - on
time 12/08/2003 08:09 AM
vnunet.com Dec 8 2003 7:26AM ET

On Time, Every Time: Timing Material in
CF

On Time, Every Time: Timing Material in
CF 02/10/2004 02:51 AM
Providing timed in and timed out material can allow you to kick back and relax over the holidays, secure in the knowledge that all your holiday graphics and greetings will appear on your site at the right time - and disappear again when the day is over. This article shows how to do this in Cold Fusion.

A time for love, a time for hate.

A time for love, a time for hate. 03/21/2003 12:29 PM
I have a friend who is a veteran. Yesterday, I asked this friend, "How can I support the members of...
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Accused Green River Killer Gary Leon
Ridgway in the proceedings of his guilty
plea

Accused Green River Killer Gary Leon
Ridgway in the proceedings of his guilty
plea 11/06/2003 07:39 AM
'I killed so many women'. Green River killer pleads guilty .. Today he confessed to 48 murders

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Gary Price Interview with Gary Flake

Gary Price Interview with Gary Flake 06/30/2004 12:44 PM
Gary Price of Resourceshelf has an interview with Dr. Gary Flake of the Yahoo Research Labs. Read part I of the interview at http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3372051....

Health Nutrition Guru Dr. Gary Null
Brings the Award Winning "The Gary Null
Show" to the Internet on the
VoiceAmerica Network

Health Nutrition Guru Dr. Gary Null
Brings the Award Winning "The Gary Null
Show" to the Internet on the
VoiceAmerica Network 12/30/2004 05:06 AM
SurfNet Media Group announced today the debut of "The Gary Null Show" broadcasting live five days a week beginning Monday, January 3, 2005 at Noon Eastern (9AM Pacific) on the VoiceAmerica Network and rebroadcast on VoiceAmerica Health and Wellness. [PRWEB Dec 30, 2004]

Leon Kagarise's basement tapes

Leon Kagarise's basement tapes 05/12/2004 11:27 AM
JT says:

"Your Joe Bussard entry reminded me of another, similar story that was pretty big news in DC last summer: Leon Kagarise of Baltimore, who recorded around 4,000 hours of artists like Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, Ernest Tubb, etc. during the late 50s through early 70s on a reel-to-reel tape deck at the outdoor music festivals prevalent in the vast rural area that previously surrounded Washington."

NPR's Morning Edition did a piece on Kagarise last summer. He's working with Joe Lee, a friend and local record store owner, to sell the recordings. Not surprisingly, the Library of Congress, the Country Music Hall of Fame, and others are apparently interested.

"You know, these [performers] were people from the mountains and from the rural South," Lee told NPR. "And once they were put in a studio, and they had a producer looking down at their snoot at the guy. And an engineer telling them, 'Well, if you make one mistake, we have to stop and start all over again.' It lost the atmosphere. It's like trying to play guitar in a straightjacket on... It's sort of like being in the zone. When you're really at ease, when there's no intimidation factor, then it really soars. And the proof is in these tapes here."

I hope someone releases a "best of" box set! Link

Ponce de Leon Development Association

Ponce de Leon Development Association 08/23/2004 06:30 AM

Bots Blogs and News Aggregators Presentation

Speech: Current Happenings on the Internet: Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A.

Ponce de Leon Development Association

Presentation Sources:

Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A.
http://www.BotsBlogs.com

Searching the Internet - Online Streaming Video Tutorial
http://www.SearchingTheInt ernet.info

Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A., Executive Director of the Virtual Private Library™, Internet expert, author, speaker, consultant and creator/founder of BotSpot.com will be speaking on the latest happenings on the Internet with emphasis on the growing areas of bots and intelligent agents, blogs (weblogs), and news aggregators. Mr. Zillman will be showing these new resources live on the Internet and how they will relate to helping you search and find the information you require for both personal and academic research. His presentations are designed both for the “newbie” to Internet searching as well as the seasoned “Internaut”. The Internet continues to change at a record pace, and discovering the latest tools to make your Internet search both easy and competent is the goal of this presentation. Will eMail soon be replaced by RSS and news aggregators? Are blogs, currently the fastest growing area of the Internet, a fad or will they change the entire Internet landscape? These and other questions will be discussed during this presentation by one of the Internet’s pioneers and bot and artificial intelligence experts, Marcus P. Zillman. His latest links and resources are available by clicking here.

Time: 12:00pm

Date: Monday, August 23, 2004

Location: Christy's in Coral Gables, Florida

"Harmon Leon went undercover to visit 3
venues of the ex-gay lifestyle around
San Francisco."

"Harmon Leon went undercover to visit 3
venues of the ex-gay lifestyle around
San Francisco." 12/24/2004 01:01 PM

High-Tech Ponce de Léon: Will Brewer's
Yeast Show Us the Way to the Fountain of
Youth?

High-Tech Ponce de Léon: Will Brewer's
Yeast Show Us the Way to the Fountain of
Youth? 07/01/2004 03:29 AM
The University of Rochester seeks alliance partners to license patent pending anti-aging genetic technology [PRWEB Jul 1, 2004]

Conspiracy Theories

Conspiracy Theories 11/07/2003 08:47 AM
CBC's long-running series The Fifth Estate recently ran a very unsettling episode (in Canada) entitled 'Conspirac y Theories'. The show dealt with all manner of claims surrouding 9-11 including a possible US/Saudi/ Bin Laden connection, major intelligence breakdowns, etc. Their website provides further reading for those who like to believe the worst.

New tech theories two centuries old

New tech theories two centuries old 02/18/2003 03:14 PM
Search giant Google and Autonomy, a company that sells information retrieval tools, both employ Bayesian principles to provide likely (but technically never ...

Beagle 2 Failure Theories

Beagle 2 Failure Theories 03/09/2004 01:27 AM

Conspiracy theories springing up

Conspiracy theories springing up 02/03/2003 10:14 AM
One person on Google noted that shuttle debris came down in the general area of Palestine, Texas, while another observed that this was the first time that an ...

Let a thousand conspiracy theories bloom

Let a thousand conspiracy theories bloom 12/17/2004 06:33 PM

I'm about to hit the sack, but current indications are that Bush has won Ohio by a couple of percentage points and thus has been re-elected as President of the United States.

Ohio. Isn't that the state that Diebold president Walden O'Dell promised to deliver to the Republicans?

I don't know if Ohio voters used Diebold machines. If they did, I'm certainly not about to say that the machines were fixed in any way. But the problem with voting machines without a paper trail is that there's no way anyone can be absolutely certain that the election wasn't stolen. In a modern democracy, that just ain't healthy.

Cassini Shatters Titan Theories

Cassini Shatters Titan Theories 07/04/2004 01:40 PM

Readers' Quantum Internet theories

Readers' Quantum Internet theories 12/30/2003 06:31 PM
Letters Enough goodness to go round?

Management methods, models, theories

Management methods, models, theories 12/25/2004 05:20 PM
Management methods, models, thoeries Kick off 2005 sounding and/or being smarter than everyone else. Minds will spin given the amount of info available here.

On adaptive success and theories of
homosexuality...

On adaptive success and theories of
homosexuality... 01/22/2004 02:14 AM

The latest issue of New Scientist contains an article - "The In Crowd" - that is both profoundly interesting and yet totally unavailable online. Gradually, I'm delighted to say, this situation is becoming more rare and more of a surprise each time it occurs.

Anyway, the article - written by Joan Roughgarden - contends that: "Same-sex relationships are not a biological dead end. They are a glue that helps hold many animal societies together, and a fatal flaw in one of Darwin's central ideas." Here are a few choice chunks of the article that I think encompass most of the article:

Author Bruce Bahemihl, in his book Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and natural diversity, has catalogued over 200 vertebrate species in which same-sex genital contact regularly occurs. In some species, homosexuality is not very common - around 1 to 10 per cent of all mating. In others, such a bonobos, homosexual mating occurs as often as heterosexual mating. In some species only males participate, in others only females, in still others both sexes. Sometimes homosexuality is associated with pair bonds that last for years, and in others with short-term courtships. This broad occurrence of homosexuality among vertebrates raises the possibility that if it has a genetic basis at all, it has some broad adaptive significance, and is not an aberrant condition just a few species happen to be stuck with.

In humans, moreover, homosexuality is much too common for it to be considered a genetic aberration. Real genetic diseases are really rare, and their frequency inevitably depends on their severity. A disease that is uniformly lethal must arise anew each generation, so its frequency is equal to the mutation rate, say one in 1 million. A disease that causes only a 10 per cent drop in offspring production (fitness) is 10 times more common than a lethal disease - about one in 100,000. Similarly, a mere 1 per cent drop in fitness leads to a frequency of one in 10,000. If homosexuality has a frequency of 1 in 10, the fitness loss could be no more than 0.001 per cent, which is completely undetectable. A "common genetic disease" is a contradiction in terms, and homosexuality is three to four orders of magnitude more common than true genetic diseases such as Huntington's disease.

All this seems eminently reasonable to me so far. I mean, clearly I'm no expert in evolutionary biology, so my opinion really counts for less than nothing. But on the other hand, as an engaged reader and a gay man I've at least got a legitimate interest in the subject and have found myself relatively compelled by the idea that if homosexual behaviour has a genetic component, that at least some of the genes that result in it must have some adaptive utility. The most commonly cited example is that perhaps a gene might exist that in an heterosexual adult provided a significant reproductive advantage of some kind - but which had the side effect of producing a certain proportion of children who were gay. As long as the cumulative effect was to mean that - on average - the familial line would produce more sexually productive offspring than a line which did not have the gene, then it would be clear that the genes that result in gay people had a reproductive advantage.

Of course while that theory has a certain compelling logic to it, it doesn't (perhaps shouldn't) have anything to say about what it means to be gay in this context. In other words - it makes no statement that homosexual behaviour is itself somehow useful or positive with regard to human behaviour, survival or evolution. Homosexual behaviour then, is not considered adaptively useful.

Now back to Joan Roughgarden's piece (carrying on directly from what was written above):

Indeed, I challenge the presumption that homosexuality leads to any reduction in fitness whatever. Throughout history and across cultures, homoerotic attraction has not precluded heteroerotic attraction. And there is little evidence that people who feel homoerotic attraction have, as a group, any less Darwinian fitness than those who don't. After all, many exclusively heterosexual people do not have offspring either. Even if those with homoerotic attraction did have marginally fewed children, they might make up for it by a better chance of survival - during wars, for example, when homoerotic bonds might lead soldiers to protect one another more vigorously.

So what then, is the adaptive significance of homosexuality? Homosexuality has many uses, much as the ability to speak does. Homosexual contact is a way to communicate pleasure. And I suggest that homosexuality is a social inclusionary trait - that is, it provides animals, including perhaps humans at times, with admission to social groups. It evolves, I suggest, whenever same-sex cooperation helps achieve an evolutionary successful life: to survive, find mates and protect one's young from harm. This plays out in different ways in different sexes and species. Sometimes, as with bonobos, same-sex cooperation provides group security and access to food that females need to successfully rear their young. For others, such as male Savanna baboons and probably some whales, it provides the allies they need to survive conflicts so that they may later mate. But the unifying principle is the same - homosexuality cements relationships that are crucial for a successful life.

At which point, I'm afraid, I think my scepticism comes to the fore. It seems to me that any theory of homosexuality that operates in direct opposition to people's experience of contemporary human sexuality seems to be at least flawed. While bonobo homosexuality might be seen to be useful in the creation of social inclusion, often exactly the opposite occurs in human society. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's classic book Between Men specifically talks about the continual need to disavow sexual components to male homosocial relationships (ie. male-on-male friendship / bonding relationships). We're all familiar with this kind of experience - that the most common and most potent sources of anti-gay tirades are tightly-bound social groups of men. At the very least more is going on in those situations than simple homoeroticism bringing those men together to express solidarity and closeness. Even at our most open-minded, surely we have to state that in those circumstances, the fact that any vestigial or situational erotics have to be so vigorously denied makes it clear that there's a distinction to be drawn between homoerotic behaviour, homosexual behaviour and homosexual identities that is much more complex than anything that Roughgarden supplies us with.

I will of course give her the benefit of the doubt in this case - the article is evidently a truncation of a body of work that no doubt includes a massive set of sample data from which to draw conclusions as well as the applied expertise of a lifetime of training. If I get the chance to read any more of her work, I will make sure that I do so vigorously. But in the meantime, I'm afraid I must remain interested but unconvinced.

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Grand Central Transmitter Theories

Grand Central Transmitter Theories 08/31/2004 06:03 AM

Reader Morgan writes:

After reading about the Grand Central setups on Gizmodo I decided to take a look around when I passed through Grand Central on my way home tonight. First off, they're scattered all over the main concourse (one over track 27 and several along the departure boards were the most visible).

Risking a Homeland Security smackdown, I decided to ask some police standing around about them, and if they were indeed, cellular relays. After a studying look and pause the MTA officer said, "I have no idea what they are" and turned away. Eventually I found a Customer Service guy who after a few, "Why are you asking?" and, "I'm not supposed to say anythings" divulged that they were cameras.

Altough I wasn't about to take any photos after flagging myself as the curious type, I noticed that there wasn't any visible lens on the device but there was something resembling a motion detector. Perhaps some kind of IR motion tracker?

More conjecture after the link.

N.Korea Blast Cause Unclear But Many
Theories (Reuters)

N.Korea Blast Cause Unclear But Many
Theories (Reuters) 09/12/2004 09:55 PM
Reuters - An accident at an underground munitions depot or a weapons factory was the likely cause of a huge explosion in North Korea last week, and there were possibly two blasts, South Korean media reports said on Monday.

Bird Brains Challenge Theories of Mind

Bird Brains Challenge Theories of Mind 05/15/2004 03:49 PM
A previously accepted difference between Humans and other animals was that only Humans could possess a "theory of mind" - that is, understanding that other beings have internal thoughts, mental states, and intentions. In recent years, higher mammals such as Gorillas have show evidence of having theories of mind. An article in the Economist summarizes two new studies in which biologists have found evidence of theories of mind in birds, a much older and more primitive form of life. One study by Berd Heinrich and others demonstrated that Ravens understood the significance of the visual behaviour of other creatures and were able to project gaze trajectories around obstacles. In a second study, Thomas Bugnyar and Kurt Kotrschal describe a strategy developed by a raven to deceive competing ravens in a way demonstrating understanding of the competitor's intentions. Oh well, we still have syntactic language and time binding.

Cassini's photos of moon support far-out
theories

Cassini's photos of moon support far-out
theories 06/14/2004 02:06 AM
USA Today Jun 14 2004 6:15AM GMT

Grokster scorecard: what theories of
liability do the amici endorse?

Grokster scorecard: what theories of
liability do the amici endorse? 03/19/2005 03:03 AM
Cory Doctorow: Jonathan Band, a copyfightin' lawyer from Morrison & Foerster, has created a great roundup of the amicus briefs in Grokster, the Supreme Court case where EFF will argue the right of P2P developers to make tools without having to anticipate and prevent copyright infringement in their designs. The highlight of this is a chart in which the various positions of each of the amici is summed up on a grid. You can't tell the players without a scorecard. 460K PDF Link

Happy B-Day Gary!

Happy B-Day Gary! 08/07/2004 07:21 PM

I didn't find out about Gary Turner's b-day through Ryze, some classmates knock-off or even an email. I found out about it through RSS, which (I assume) he posted initially at Flickr and which then ricocheted into his blog.

So first of all - congrats to Gary (hopefully I'll get to meet him Sept. 13th), and congrats to Stewart and the team at Ludicorp for evolving Flickr into what it is today.

At first glance I thought of Flickr a predominanly an IM your photo kind of RIA. But it's much more than that.

The Calendaring, the PhotoRSS, the Fotonotes, a more coming - I'm sure.

How Gary Bloom

How Gary Bloom 07/10/2004 12:44 PM
ZDNet Jul 10 2004 4:32PM GMT

MTV.com - Gary Jules

MTV.com - Gary Jules 06/27/2004 05:58 PM
The (rather better) American video for Gary Jules' "Mad World"... Yay Gondry!

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Game Theories: Are these virtual worlds
the best place to study the real one?

Game Theories: Are these virtual worlds
the best place to study the real one? 05/17/2004 08:55 AM
Game Theories: Are these virtual worlds the best place to study the real one? The Gross National Product of EverQuest, measured by how much wealth all the players together created in a single year inside the game. It turned out to be $2,266 U.S. per capita. By World Bank rankings, that made EverQuest richer than India, Bulgaria, or China, and nearly as wealthy as Russia. (by Clive Thompson)

The Longest Time

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