Archive for January, 2004
I’m not a big fan of diary-type blog entries, but I wanted to write about an interesting slice of taxi subculture that I encountered over the weekend. I won’t blemish the front page with the details, but click below to read about it.
So I got into a cab on Saturday night and was greeted […]
It’s eerily quiet…things must not be going well.
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Modest proposals coming to a theatre near you
Closed Published by Becky S January 17th, 2004 in artsThis sounds intriguing…yesterday’s Marketplace had an interview with Andy and Mike, a couple of activists who fight “evil doers”:
In 1999, just before the big protests in Seattle, Mike and Andy set up a parody of the WTO website at the domain GATT.org. Some people mistook it for the real thing and wrote in with […]
What will those crazy Finns think up next? Text messages from Jesus!
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Ramesh Ponnuru has an interesting article at Tech Central Station concerning the bad state of free trade. He writes:
For seventy years, American presidents have followed a strategy for promoting free trade that Brink Lindsey, a trade-policy analyst at the Cato Institute, calls “diversion and appeasement.” The idea has been to liberalize trade without ever […]
In recent posts, the esteemed Navigator has expressed skepticism about the recent Mars hubbub and has praised the work of David Rees, author of the comic strip Get Your War On.* How lovely then, that David Rees has published some Mars-related Get Your War On strips.
In the strips, the usual suspects are on […]
Top 5 please-let-these-things-be-over-and-done-with-soon-so-we-can-all-move-on:
Iowa caucus
Star Wars movies
low carb diets
SUV craze
Eagles/Panthers game
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He’s a slow learner. He left his computer unlocked again, this time before heading to an offsite meeting. We’ve got at least 2 hours to think up a good trick. All the personal firewalls in the world can’t help this guy.
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Earlier this week, Google added several new features to its search engine* (see the continuation of this post for a summary), continuing the trend of positioning itself as an intermediary between the searcher and an ever-growing list of data sources. For example, instead of going directly to the front page of Travelocity, searchers can […]
Tomorrow is Personal Firewall Day. Have you implemented the three layers of protection: personal firewall, anti-virus software, and program updates?
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