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I just listened to a NPR
piece on party conversation based on Raymond's
Recommendation and found myself yelling in concert with the host "Stop the
Party!". This advice would have been helpful at last weekend's
playgroup meeting (Simeon is the one with the drool
soaked shirt) where I knew none of the dads and didn't really remember real
well the moms (although I did attend the post birthing classes that formed the
group). This party was also my first real experience with more then two babies
in a room, and it defiantly was a different experience then anything I've seen b...
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So I was back at the gym this morning, did 45 minutes of cardio and got a nice headache
as a result. This happend the last time I tried to restart cardio. I'm going
to have to keep at it until I can get over this hump. I've also started diet
tracking again. I think I'm going to have to focus on this for the rest of my life.
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Anthropology.net via
JWZ:
Stephen Juan, an anthropologist from the University of Sydney answers Lee
Staniforth of Manchester, UK question, "Do humans have a compass in their nose?" He
writes about some scientists at California Institute of Technology discovered that
humans possess a tiny, shiny crystal of magnetite in the ethmoid bone (pink bone to
the image on your right), located between your eyes, just behind the nose... but doesn't
give us any clue as to where the research was published.
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The NIST has released a draft
white paper on electronic voting machines. Washington Post summarizes:
Paperless electronic voting machines used throughout the Washington region and much
of the country "cannot be made secure," according to draft recommendations issued
this week by a federal agency that advises the U.S. Election Assistance Commission.
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NIST says in its report that the lack of a paper trail for each vote "is one of the
main reasons behind continued questions about voting system security and diminished
public confidence in elections." The report repeats the contenti...
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Crooked
Timber explains why acting like a bitter dead-enders is not a worthwhile policy
for democracies.
The point here is that it’s one of the more important things in game theory that a
signal has to be a costly signal to be credible; like membership of the Modern
Languages Association, a reputation in deterrence theory is something that is worth
having, but not worth getting. People who use the word “signal” in this context
(usually on the basis of a poorly understood or second-hand reading of Schelling)
don’t always seem to realise that they are explicitly admitting that the costs ...
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The Washington Post has a series about how Bush will be remembered:
He's
The Worst Ever
...somehow, in his first six years in office he has managed to combine the lapses
of leadership, misguided policies and abuse of power of his failed predecessors. I
think there is no alternative but to rank him as the worst president in U.S. history.
Move
Over, Hoover
Bush has two more years to leave his mark, he argued. What if there is a news flash
that U.S. Special Forces have killed Osama bin Laden or that North Korea has renounced
its nuclear program? What if a decade from now I...
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Joel writes:
Of all the things broken at Microsoft, the way they use source control on the Windows
team is not one of them.
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When you're working with source control on a huge team, the best way to organize things
is to create branches and sub-branches that correspond to your individual feature
teams, down to a high level of granularity. If your tools support it, you can even
have private branches for every developer. So they can check in as often as they want,
only merging up when they feel that their code is stable. Your QA department owns
the "junction points" above each merge...
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Check
out this windows mobile or java client for
looking at maps, traffic, driving directions and local search.
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I was poking around on soapbox and noticed that Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
- Solid State Society is coming out. This is a movie based on the GITS SAC line of
stories.
>/embed>
Video:
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society
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So last night I went to the Seattle
Symphony: Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto No. 3. We
were all somewhat concerned about the World Premiere piece, Black Swan, but it turned
out quite nice. The second piece required what appear to be super human dexterity
on the piano, but often then more complicated playing didn't seem to be the best parts
of the piece for me, it was however impressive to watch. I found that the late hour
and the Beethoven conspired to try to put me to sleep. I definitely closed my eyes
but I don't think I actually feel asleep. The violist who shared a music sheet w...
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In previous years, I'm told that Raymond went for Halloween as an Interoffice Envelope
and a Nobel
Prize, and we were thinking at dinner last Saturday, what would be a good costume
for him this year? On the paper theme we reached a set of ideas around hazard
warning signs. The favorites (of mine) were the Danger: Contents under High
Pressure and the the standard diamond. The problem is that it wasn't quite enough
to be worthy of a Raymond costume. The Nobel Award was good because of the time
he took to forge all the signatures. My last idea which I think would ...
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The
New York Times has developed a pretty cool windows client using the avalon Windows
Presentation Framework in .Net Framework 3.0. The pp downloads the articles so that
you can browse the news paper offline, it re-flows the content to intelligently display
articles based on the size of the windows, has great search features, keeps read state,
lets you annotate the articles save it off, etc. It's a pretty powerful demonstration
of what new windows applications can be like. Right now it uses the free NyTimes
registration. Check it
out!
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testing 1, 2, 3.
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Dare was kind enough to point
out that there is a nice non-modal
inline search for IE, available right now. I haven't told so many people
to install a piece of software as a must have for a long time.
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Seymour Hersh documents the
battle in between Bush'd administration and the military branches over Iran policy.
Political slogans were once again turned in poor law, this time proving
your citizenship for Medicaid.
Hadman proves the point that "conservative judges" are more idoligical then
constitutional. It's feels good to know that we haven't
lost the american system of government yet. Yes it's easier to bypass the
law when we don't like its consequences and possibities, but that is not the America
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