If Ricky were any smarter, he'd be broccoli

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Broccoli

Broccoli 06/24/2005 06:57 PM
"It is somewhat ironic," lectured the broccoli, "that I should be the source of your revelation. Wouldn't you think it should be the other way `round?"

If you don't know Ricky by now...

If you don't know Ricky by now... 04/08/2005 06:04 PM
The Only Website Dedicated to Seona Dancing, the 80's New Romantic pop duo featuring Ricky Gervais. With sounds and pictur es.

Barbecued Broccoli

Barbecued Broccoli 05/10/2004 09:48 PM
No, I’m not kidding. I was barbecueing a couple of lamb cutlets and there was this great big head of broccoli near the front of the fridge. So I tried an experiment and it came out great. Don’t break up the broccoli, slice right across the head; a few clumps will come off but you’ll get some flattish pieces with lots of stem too. Thinner is better, I think. Brush the whole thing with toasted-sesame oil—a little hard to come by, but very useful—and put it on the grill, high heat, for, well, about as long as it takes to barbecue a couple of lamb cutlets. The surfaces of the leafy bits will be slightly charred. Yummy; I’ll be doing this again.

Ricky Jay revealed

Ricky Jay revealed 06/19/2004 06:28 PM
The June issue of Smithsonian magazine features a profile of Ricky Jay, magician, author, and collector of odd antiquities. I'm fascinated not only by Jay's unparalleled talent as a prestidigitator, but also his insatiable curiosity for the wonderful, obscure, and strange--from the freaks and fringe-dwellers featured in his newsletter/book Jay's Journal of Anomalies to his comprehensive knowledge of old-time grifts and scams. From the Smithsonian article:

“The idea of crime based on wit is kind of wonderful,” Jay told me. “There’s not much admirable in a guy who comes at you with a gun and says, ‘Give me your money.’ But a guy who makes you sign a piece of paper, and then you find out you’ve bought the Brooklyn Bridge—the con is enormously appealing. And it’s theatrical. The con—the big con, especially—is an entire theatrical orchestration for an audience of one. It’s both lovely and diabolical at the same time.”

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He'd Better Hope He Doesn't Get Sick
(Reuters)

He'd Better Hope He Doesn't Get Sick
(Reuters) 06/03/2004 08:44 AM
Reuters - A British man with a fetish for medical items has become the first person to be banned from every hospital in England and Wales, the government said on Wednesday.

Broccoli History Via Cameraphone

Broccoli History Via Cameraphone 07/19/2004 11:15 AM

Produce giant Dole is introducing a new Japanese service that will allow cameraphone users to track the history of their fruits and vegetables by scanning a special "QR" barcode. The service is even more exclusive than Japan-only at the moment -- for now, the only vegetable history available is that of broccoli. Everyone knows where broccoli comes from: the crunchy, cold depths of nutritional hell. But at least now you'll know which hell, and which creaking iron cart was used to haul it from the depths where flavor goes to die.
R ead - Data hungry? Tap into your cell [Asahi via USC IMD via WMMNA< /a> via AdMblo g]

pervert gets beatdown from catholic
schoolgirls he'd been flashing

pervert gets beatdown from catholic
schoolgirls he'd been flashing 11/02/2003 03:13 AM
chased him down, beat him up, and held him till police arrived .. Call it "Girls Gone Wild," South Philadelphia-style .. One Flash Too Many

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BBC Gives Ricky Gervais Bad Day at 'The
Office' (Reuters)

BBC Gives Ricky Gervais Bad Day at 'The
Office' (Reuters) 01/16/2004 10:56 AM
Reuters - Comic Ricky Gervais, the star of cult British sitcom "The Office," might miss out on a chance to win one of British TV's top awards because the BBC forgot to nominate him, newspapers said Friday.

Nutrition: Young Broccoli Haters Get a
Break

Nutrition: Young Broccoli Haters Get a
Break 03/08/2004 11:24 PM
Researchers found few meaningful differences between the diets of children described by their parents as poor eaters and those of other children.

Excerpt from Ricky Jay's "Cards as
Weapons"

Excerpt from Ricky Jay's "Cards as
Weapons" 06/24/2004 03:30 AM
Card Throwing Technique

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Report: Dolphins' Ricky Williams to
Retire (AP)

Report: Dolphins' Ricky Williams to
Retire (AP) 07/25/2004 09:04 AM
AP - Ricky Williams has told the Miami Dolphins that he's retiring after just five years in the NFL, The Miami Herald reported on its Web site Sunday. Williams said he was overjoyed by his decision.

Children's menus hold the fries, dish up
the broccoli (USATODAY.com)

Children's menus hold the fries, dish up
the broccoli (USATODAY.com) 05/27/2004 07:34 AM
USATODAY.com - Restaurants are getting more health-conscious when it comes to their youngest customers.

another six weeks of things that make
Bush 'vulnerable,' and he'd be heading
for a 49-state blowout over Kerry

another six weeks of things that make
Bush 'vulnerable,' and he'd be heading
for a 49-state blowout over Kerry 07/25/2004 07:41 PM
We can nitpick forever, but what’s changed? .. latest Mark Steyn .. Quote of the day: .. few questions .. figured out .. asks .. on

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Tom Tromey posted a list of topics he'd
like to see discussed at the open-source
Java panel at JavaOne.

Tom Tromey posted a list of topics he'd
like to see discussed at the open-source
Java panel at JavaOne. 06/27/2004 07:17 PM
Tom Tromey posted a list of topics he'd like to see discussed at the open-source Java panel at JavaOne.

Buy smarter

Buy smarter 05/11/2004 11:56 AM
Computer Weekly May 11 2004 3:24PM GMT

Why MSN is smarter than AOL

Why MSN is smarter than AOL 01/11/2004 10:28 PM
ZDNet Jan 11 2004 9:16PM ET

Smarter Than Me

Smarter Than Me 12/29/2003 11:44 PM
Sometimes I'm accused of being "smart," which bothers me since I don't know what it means. It's a comparative label: if this one is smart, then others are equally smart, smarter, or less smart. Yet all generalizations are false, all comparisons fail. There's no way to measure these things, not really. It's a bogus idea. That's not exactly right. I quickly identify folks smarter than me, but it's not empirical, just a cocktail party chat I have with myself. Probably...

Smarter Than the CEO

Smarter Than the CEO 05/31/2004 05:26 AM
Success, most corporations assume, depends on the efforts of a few superlative individuals. As a result, they treat their CEOs as superheroes. In doing so, firms are neglecting their most valuable resource: the collective intelligence of the organization as a whole. By James Surowiecki from Wired magazine.

"One of us is smarter than all of us"

"One of us is smarter than all of us" 03/28/2005 03:18 PM

Living Smarter

Living Smarter 06/05/2004 10:24 AM

Meta-Efficient points to ways to live your life using up fewer resources -- doing right by the planet, and yourself.

spambots get smarter

spambots get smarter 01/06/2004 01:03 PM

Since today started as a "spam kind of day"...

Something I noticed over the last few weeks is that I've started to receive spam that is way more targeted than before. In what sense?

Well, let's say this: I'm getting spam that not only knows my full name, but also my address. Okay, not my current address, but I've already gotten spam that explictly mentions both my New York address (from 5+ years ago) and my SF Bay address (from 2+ years ago). This is bad, not only they know my email address, but they also know where I live(d)! Yes, we know that with time and money you can get a lot of information on anyone, but this has to be done automatically and massively, or otherwise it wouldn't be a practical option for spammers.

Clearly, one way this could happen is if someone (say, buy.com) has been selling their customer information. Since I usually take care of buying online only when my privacy is more or less protected, this is unlikely, though certainly possible.

There's a more likely way in which this connection was made: Google.

Google not only knows the web, it also knows other information... like phone numbers (at least in the US). Jon mentioned this some time ago.

A spambot to get "connected information" would work like this. Say you write an automated script to go through phone numbers on Google. Then the script takes the address data and the person's name, and then googles the person's name. It takes the first few results (or maybe only the first one) and scans the resulting pages to match an email's name to the person's name. Sure, this won't be 100% correct, but spammers don't care about that. And Google's reach makes it reasonable to think that you'd have a reasonably high hit rate. You could even write a program that uses the GoogleAPI for it.

Sure, we could say, as Scott McNealy does, that "you're privacy is gone, get over it". Even if you don't agree with that statement (and I don't, at least I want to resist it!), this is nevertheless disturbing. And the question that follows is: does Google have any responsibility for this? They'd probably say that they're providing a service by integrating yellow pages information, which would be true.

I'm not picking on Google, rather Google is the example here because of its reach and pervasiveness, but I'm sure that similar things can be done with other search engines and if not it won't be long before you can. Can we fix this at all? If so, how?

Since this is the tip of the iceberg, my main thought at the moment is that I'm a character from Lost in Space and all I hear is "Danger Will Robinson! Danger!".

SAP CEO: Not more, but smarter IT
investments

SAP CEO: Not more, but smarter IT
investments 01/28/2004 12:06 AM
DÃœSSELDORF, GERMANY - Accepting the idea that many businesses aren't prepared to spend more on enterprise application software, Germany's SAP AG aims to help them spend smarter.

Tinderbox Keeps Getting Smarter

Tinderbox Keeps Getting Smarter 03/22/2005 04:58 PM
Matt Neuburg (~210 words)

Tinderbox Keeps Getting Smarter -- Eastgate Systems' Tinderbox has been upgraded to version 2.4. Tinderbox (see my review in TidBITS-651) is a superb way to create heavily hyperlinked text; text snippets are stored in a hierarchical structure and can be exported as Web pages. I used Tinderbox to create the online help for the Perl editor Affrus, which blogger John Gruber has called "the finest software documentation," in part because it is "cross-linked out the ying-yang." Tinderbox 2.4 makes outlines smarter by permitting any entry to have a rule for updating itself periodically; for example, if you're using Tinderbox to maintain a to-do list, a parent item (representing a category or group of tasks) might have a rule that its "completed" attribute should be true if and only if the "completed" attribute of all its children (the actual tasks) is true. There are also many small bug fixes and aesthetic tweaks, and Tinderbox's Web-page export continues to evolve strongly. Tinderbox runs in both the classic Mac OS (Mac OS 9.2 recommended) and Mac OS X 10.0 and later. Tinderbox costs $165, plus $70 annually for free updates. A demo version is available for download. [MAN]

Why small companies are smarter than big
ones

Why small companies are smarter than big
ones 07/18/2004 08:04 PM
ZDNet Jul 19 2004 0:31AM GMT

Man smart, voter smarter

Man smart, voter smarter 05/15/2004 06:56 PM
Mid-Day Mumbai,India-3 hours ago ... They can just do a Google search right there in their own villages. ... They’re all too busy doing Google searches for Infosys results. ...

E-mail viruses getting smarter

E-mail viruses getting smarter 08/18/2004 01:32 AM
CNET News.com Aug 18 2004 5:49AM GMT

Microsoft Word And "Smarter Than"

Microsoft Word And "Smarter Than" 08/30/2004 07:45 PM
What the Word team lacks, in my view, is an awareness that, when a user is trying to get his or her own work done, the user is always smarter than the technology. By Marc Hedlund, O'Reilly Network (via MyAppleMenu)

OkCupid! Smarter, Better Matching

OkCupid! Smarter, Better Matching 03/14/2005 04:50 PM
this cutesypoo little personality test .. OkCupid! Smarter, Better Matching .. personality quiz thingamabobsky .. I'm a Peach .. Ok Cupid .. OKCupid .. here .. quiz .. you

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Why small companies are smarter

Why small companies are smarter 07/20/2004 09:11 PM
ZDNet Jul 21 2004 1:27AM GMT

Sleep makes you smarter!

Sleep makes you smarter! 01/22/2004 02:45 AM
An AP article says that the first "hard evidence supporting the common sense notion that creativity and problem solving appear to be directly linked to adequate sleep" will be published in tomorrow's issue of Nature. Finally, proof that my nap habit is actually beneficial to my productivity! Link

Smarter Content Publishing

Smarter Content Publishing 08/26/2002 12:34 PM

ICT venture coaching just got smarter

ICT venture coaching just got smarter 05/12/2004 01:21 AM
Sunday Times South Africa May 12 2004 5:54AM GMT

The Perils Of Ego Surfing: There Might
Be A Smarter You Out There

The Perils Of Ego Surfing: There Might
Be A Smarter You Out There 08/17/2004 05:32 AM
An LA Times reporter finally did what most people discovered long ago: the ability to search Google for your own name. However, he came to a horrifying realization: he wasn't the only Geoff Boucher. Even worse, in his opinion, it looked like the other Geoff Boucher might be smarter than he was. Once again, we discover the dangers of a combination of too much free time and Google.

Designing a Smarter Shoe

Designing a Smarter Shoe 05/05/2004 09:28 PM
Adidas's new shoe, named 1, is sleek and lightweight despite its battery-powered sensor, microprocessor and electric motor.

Phishers using smarter hooks

Phishers using smarter hooks 04/20/2004 11:19 AM
Personal Computer World Apr 20 2004 3:20PM GMT

New Cell Phones Smarter, More Fun

New Cell Phones Smarter, More Fun 03/19/2003 10:27 PM
Record-breaking sales in 2002 put the cell-phone industry on top of the world. Manufacturers hope to stay there with a new crop of handsets that offer gaming, picture-taking, multimedia messaging and more. Elisa Batista reports from New Orleans.

Older siblings are smarter (Reuters)

Older siblings are smarter (Reuters) 03/14/2005 06:13 PM
Reuters - First born children in Norway get better education and as adults are more successful in the job market than younger siblings, a Norwegian-U.S. study shows.

Macromedia makes Web meetings smarter

Macromedia makes Web meetings smarter 02/10/2004 09:03 AM
ZDNet UK Feb 10 2004 12:12PM GMT

'Dummer' Academy Seeks Smarter Name (AP)

'Dummer' Academy Seeks Smarter Name (AP) 02/01/2005 09:23 PM
AP - The 18th century boarding school in Massachusetts — Governor Dummer Academy — wants to change its name to prevent any smart guys from making jokes about it.
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