Sam Harris: A New Year's Resolution for the Rich

Sam Harris: A New Year's Resolution for the Rich: "Some readers will point out that I am free to donate to the treasury even now. But such solitary sacrifice would be utterly ineffectual, and I am no more eager than anyone else is to fill the pork barrels of corrupt politicians. However, if Gates and Buffett created a mechanism that bypassed the current dysfunction of government, earmarking the money for unambiguously worthy projects, I suspect that there are millions of people like myself who would not hesitate to invest in the future of America."

Canon PowerShot S5 IS Review: 1. Introduction: Digital Photography Review

Canon PowerShot S5 IS Review: 1. Introduction: Digital Photography Review

The War Nerd: Market Lessons from the Pashtun - By Gary Brecher - The eXiled

The War Nerd: Market Lessons from the Pashtun - By Gary Brecher - The eXiled: "In granddad’s stories it was the Brits, who could be dangerous. Now it’s these Americans, who are only dangerous when provoked—and the only thing that seems to provoke them is a wedding party. Anything else and they barely react."

The War Nerd: Market Lessons from the Pashtun - By Gary Brecher - The eXiled

The War Nerd: Market Lessons from the Pashtun - By Gary Brecher - The eXiled: "Us? Not in the Brits’ league when it comes to Empire. I guarantee they won’t remember us ten years from now. They’ve forgotten the Russians already, 20 years after they slunk home, broke and beaten. It’s the Russians who remember Afg; the war in Afg was one of the bigger nails in the USSR’s coffin, and they left a good chunk of their total tank and APC production lying in the dust there. Barely made an impression on the Pashtun. Just another day at the office."

The New Voodoo - NYTimes.com

The New Voodoo - NYTimes.com: "“McConnell Blasts Deficit Spending, Urges Extension of Tax Cuts.”"

Book Review - Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 - NYTimes.com

Book Review - Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 - NYTimes.com: "“If I had his nuts in a steel trap I would shut out all human succor and watch that trap till he died”"

Book Review - Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 - NYTimes.com

Book Review - Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 - NYTimes.com: "He speaks from the grave, he writes, so that he can speak freely — “as frank and free and unembarrassed as a love letter” — but there’s precious little frankness and freedom here and plenty of proof that Mark Twain, in the hands of academics, can be just as tedious as anybody else when he is under the burden of his own reputation."

Locus Online Perspectives: Extreme Geek

Locus Online Perspectives: Extreme Geek: "I am by no means the geekiest SF writer working in the field today; on the power-law curve of geekiness, there are many ancient and gnarly masters before whom I am but a noviate, barely qualified to check the syntax in their shell-scripts. Stross, I'm looking at you here.

Nevertheless, I am far more geeky than average, and that geekiness has crept into my writing practice in a way that is very close to perfectly geeky inasmuch as it probably costs me as much effort as it saves me, inasmuch as it delights me, and inasmuch as it points the way to civilian applications that someone else might want to develop into products that the less geekified may enjoy."

Sister's kidney donation condition of Miss. parole - Yahoo! News

Sister's kidney donation condition of Miss. parole - Yahoo! News: "Lumumba said he has no problem with the governor requiring Gladys to offer up her organ because 'Gladys actually volunteered that as part of her petition.'"

MousePlanet - The Trip Planner

MousePlanet - The Trip Planner: "Food on a Disneyland vacation can easily bust your budget, if not planned carefully. Technically, you are not supposed to bring food into the park. You can however, bring a cooler full of lunch, and leave this in the lockers outside the entrance. There is a nice picnic area in front of Disneyland. If your family is already used to this, no problem. However, there are lots and lots of food temptations throughout the park that are especially enticing for children."

How to: Make an iPad Booksafe Case | Carrypad

How to: Make an iPad Booksafe Case | Carrypad

No Machine Can Do My Job As Resentfully As I Can | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

No Machine Can Do My Job As Resentfully As I Can | The Onion - America's Finest News Source: "Replacing us with machines will increase profits, but can a dollar value be placed on the labors of someone who drinks before his morning shift just to get through the day? And when the machines are sitting in six-inch-deep gore at day's end, will they go home and take out their frustrations on family members and loved ones? I think not."

Frontline D-Day Review - Board Game Reviews

Frontline D-Day Review - Board Game Reviews

Wake Up, Geek Culture. Time to Die | Magazine

Wake Up, Geek Culture. Time to Die | Magazine: "Fast-forward to now: Boba Fett’s helmet emblazoned on sleeveless T-shirts worn by gym douches hefting dumbbells. The Glee kids performing the songs from The Rocky Horror Picture Show. And Toad the Wet Sprocket, a band that took its name from a Monty Python riff, joining the permanent soundtrack of a night out at Bennigan’s. Our below-the-topsoil passions have been rudely dug up and displayed in the noonday sun. The Lord of the Rings used to be ours and only ours simply because of the sheer goddamn thickness of the books. Twenty years later, the entire cast and crew would be trooping onstage at the Oscars to collect their statuettes, and replicas of the One Ring would be sold as bling."

Nancy Jo Sales on the Bling Ring | Culture | Vanity Fair

Nancy Jo Sales on the Bling Ring | Culture | Vanity Fair: "“God didn’t give me these talents and looks to just sit around being a model or being famous. I want to lead a huge charity organization. I want to lead a country, for all I know.”"

Olympus E-510 EVOLT Review: 31. Conclusion: Digital Photography Review

Olympus E-510 EVOLT Review: 31. Conclusion: Digital Photography Review: "And for the tickbox brigade the E-510 compares very well with its direct competitors in a 'spec for spec' comparison too, save for the rather antiquated 3 point auto focus system, and it adds a huge amount of customization options missing from the E-410. To be honest neither of these issues will have an immense effect on most users' experiences - the 3-point AF system works perfectly well 99% of the time (if you really want to capture sports action there are better cameras) and the majority of the additional controls will be left on default most of the time."

Jon Stewart’s Advocacy Role in 9/11 Bill Passage - NYTimes.com

Jon Stewart’s Advocacy Role in 9/11 Bill Passage - NYTimes.com: "The other was the broadcast networks (one of them being CBS, the former home of Mr. Murrow and Mr. Cronkite), which, he charged, had not reported on the bill for more than two months.

“Though, to be fair,” Mr. Stewart said, “it’s not every day that Beatles songs come to iTunes.”"

Stuff White People Like

Stuff White People Like: "3. Gift card to Anthropologie. You might have walked past it a few times at your local mall and wondered how they crammed the interior of a late-nineteenth century barn into a shopping center that was built in 2005. It is the store equivalent of a Wes Anderson film, which certainly helps to explain its appeal, but it is also the most efficient way for white women to look and (hopefully) live like Am�lie."

#46 The Sunday New York Times � Stuff White People Like

#46 The Sunday New York Times � Stuff White People Like: "The secret you may not know, is that deep down, all white people are desperately trying to make their life seem like an ad for a Sub Zero refrigerator, or an article in Gourmet/Bon Appetit magazine. To achieve either of these goals will set white people at ease.

But note well, that the sports section will always remain perfectly creased and unread, unless they have a teenage son. So on Monday morning, if you need to impress your coworkers, choose to talk about something you read in the Book Review section, the magazine, or Sunday Style."

Widow of skier killed at The Canyons likely to take case to state court | The Salt Lake Tribune

Widow of skier killed at The Canyons likely to take case to state court | The Salt Lake Tribune: "After Coles’ death, relatives said that he was an experienced skier with the latest safety equipment. Coles owned three helmets and offered to lend them to friends and family when skiing. He was wearing a helmet the day of the accident."

The Real American Pie | Feature | Chicago Reader

The Real American Pie | Feature | Chicago Reader: "I can't shake the feeling that the abrupt fall of mince signaled some profound but undiagnosed shift in American culture, some seismic rearrangement of who we are—since we are, after all, what we eat.

I promise to keep researching (and baking) until I figure it out or die trying."

The author of this essay died shortly after writing it.

The Hazards of Nerd Supremacy: The Case of WikiLeaks - Jaron Lanier - Technology - The Atlantic

The Hazards of Nerd Supremacy: The Case of WikiLeaks - Jaron Lanier - Technology - The Atlantic: "But leaving hypocrisy aside, is there something to the idea?�If the number of secrets falls with each passing minute and gradually approaches zero, what does that do to the world?�Would a world without secrets be fairer, or more compassionate?�More efficient?�Does it matter if some secrets are revealed before others?"

WikiLeaks Archive - Cables Show D.E.A.’s Global Reach - NYTimes.com

WikiLeaks Archive - Cables Show D.E.A.’s Global Reach - NYTimes.com: "The Drug Enforcement Administration has been transformed into a global intelligence organization with a reach that extends far beyond narcotics, and an eavesdropping operation so expansive it has to fend off foreign politicians who want to use it against their political enemies, according to secret diplomatic cables."

Gorillaz - The Fall

Gorillaz - The Fall: "iPad Applications Used: Speak It! / SoundyThingie / Mugician / Solo Synth / Synth / Funk Box / Gliss / AmpliTube / Xenon / iElectribe / BS-16i / M3000 HD / Cleartune / iOrgel HD / Olsynth / StudioMiniXI / BassLine / Harmonizer / Dub Siren Pro / Moog Filatron"

Ipad apps used by the Gorillaz on their latest album.

The Blast Shack

The Blast Shack: "If the Internet was walking around in public, it would look and act a lot like Julian Assange. The Internet is about his age, and it doesn’t have any more care for the delicacies of profit, propriety and hierarchy than he does."

Standoff in Eagle Mountain ends with suspect in custody - ksl.com

Standoff in Eagle Mountain ends with suspect in custody - ksl.com: "But the standoff wasn't over. For more than another hour, the man refused to give up while numerous SWAT officers set up a perimeter around the home.

A robot then delivered cigarettes to Holewinski, who had requested them. Another man inside the home was escorted out by the SWAT team."

Which SLR camera to buy: Canon Rebel XTi or Nikon D40? | Ask MetaFilter

Which SLR camera to buy: Canon Rebel XTi or Nikon D40? | Ask MetaFilter: "Olympus E-500"

Amazon.com: Buy Your First DSLR? Here's Some Info To Help You

Amazon.com: Buy Your First DSLR? Here's Some Info To Help You

Steven Bradbury - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Steven Bradbury - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "After consulting the national coach Ann Zhang, Bradbury's strategy from the semi-final onwards was to cruise behind his opponents and hope that they crashed, as he realised that he was slower and could not match their raw pace.[14] His reasoning was that risk-taking by the favourites could cause a collision due to a racing incident, and if two skaters (or more) fell, the remaining three would all get medals, and that as he was slower than his opponents, trying to challenge them directly would only increase his chance of falling.[14][15] Bradbury said that he was satisfied with his result, and felt that as the second oldest competitor in the entire field, he was not able to match his opponents in four races on the same night.[16]"

The Post That Cannot Possibly Go Wrong | MetaFilter

The Post That Cannot Possibly Go Wrong | MetaFilter: "But what happened inside the Starlight Lines employee forum was even stranger than that. Because it was buried one password and six clicks into the site, only a few dedicated people found it, and found each other. And once they were there, they started roleplaying Starlight Lines, and didn't stop evolving a long and bizarre narrative for the next thirteen years."

Restaurant critic S. Irene Virbila photographed and kicked out of Red Medicine | Daily Dish | Los Angeles Times

Restaurant critic S. Irene Virbila photographed and kicked out of Red Medicine | Daily Dish | Los Angeles Times: "Times Food editor Russ Parsons said Virbila contacted him after the incident and was upset by it. It was humiliating to be confronted in such a manner, Parsons said, and Virbila felt violated to have her picture taken without her permission. But mostly, he said, “She was upset because she has worked extremely hard for more than 15 years to maintain her anonymity in the L.A. restaurant scene.”"

YouTube - Storyfarm makes Cap'n Crunch French Toast at the Blue Moon Cafe

YouTube - Storyfarm makes Cap'n Crunch French Toast at the Blue Moon Cafe

Capitalizing Proper Adjectives

Capitalizing Proper Adjectives: "Capitalizing Proper Adjectives

A proper noun used as an adjective or an adjective formed from a proper noun is called a proper adjective.

Proper adjectives are normally capitalized. This includes brand names.

Correct: Syrian food a Kodak� camera

Some proper adjectives may not be capitalized because the association with a particular name is gone.

Correct: Teddy bear or teddy bear

Other words this has happened to are bourbon whiskey and venetian blinds.

Prefixes attached to a proper adjective are not capitalized unless the prefixes themselves are formed from a proper noun.

Correct: pro-Communist pre-Raphaelite Afro-Asian
(The prefix Afro- is formed from Africa.)

In a hyphenated word, only the proper adjective is capitalized.

Correct: Flemish-speaking Belgians"

Tips for New Paupers - By John Dolan - The eXiled

Tips for New Paupers - By John Dolan - The eXiled: "Warmth. Above all you need to have a dry warm place to sleep. We had only an unheated boat, and that was not enough. We woke up to the thump of sea ice banging against the hull and realized that the old world was still very much in session. When we finally fled to stay with family, we stayed in our blankets up against their gas fireplace for weeks. You won’t even want food much after a while. You’ll want heat itself, not the chemical middle man. You are going to realize that cold is the most frightening thing in the world. In older English dialects, “to starve” meant “to freeze.” You will see why."

Apple's Cleverest -- And Most Annoying -- Marketing Gimmick

Apple's Cleverest -- And Most Annoying -- Marketing Gimmick

Steve Jobs' marketing grammar.

Bronchitis - Dr. Weil

Bronchitis - Dr. Weil: "With chronic bronchitis, eliminate milk and milk products. The milk protein, casein, can irritate the immune system and stimulate mucus production."

The cult of the vintage Honda. - By Tim Wu - Slate Magazine

The cult of the vintage Honda. - By Tim Wu - Slate Magazine

UFC 124 winner Pierson dumped from Toronto Police Department - Cagewriter - UFC� - Yahoo! Sports

UFC 124 winner Pierson dumped from Toronto Police Department - Cagewriter - UFC� - Yahoo! Sports: "Pierson has been dismissed by the Toronto Police. They cited concerns about his one-time nickname of 'Pimp Daddy,' and the time and effort that Pierson needs to commit to fighting."

Brazen Baghdad gold heist leaves trail of dead - CSMonitor.com

Brazen Baghdad gold heist leaves trail of dead - CSMonitor.com: "RPGs for a jewel heist?

Local news reports and some policemen said the attackers were armed not only with standard weapons such as assault rifles and pistols fitted with silencers, but also with rocket-propelled grenade launchers and belt-fed machine guns.

An interviewer on the Iraqiya TV channel asked Baghdad security spokesman Qassim Atta the question that was on everyone's mind Tuesday afternoon: 'How did they manage to stage this operation at midday and get through all these checkpoints and security procedures in Baghdad?'"

Bellagio robbery results in $1.5M in chips stolen by armed bandit - CSMonitor.com

Bellagio robbery results in $1.5M in chips stolen by armed bandit - CSMonitor.com: "Absher wouldn't say if MGM Resorts properties are among Las Vegas casinos that embed radio frequency devices in chips. But police will be keeping a close eye on cashier cages in case someone shows up with a stack of $25,000 chips.

'We have safeguards in place,' police Officer Barbara Morgan said.

The robbery had the makings of a scene straight out of a Hollywood caper. Police say a man wearing a jumpsuit and a motorcycle helmet with white stripes walked into the casino with a gun, robbed a craps table then sped away on a motorcycle in the dead of night."

Mitochondria and the Evolution of Human Longevity - Life Extension

Mitochondria and the Evolution of Human Longevity - Life Extension: "preserving youthful mitochondrial function is of paramount importance to prolonging life span. The good news is that modern science is rapidly discovering an arsenal of nutrients capable of slowing or reversing many of the degenerative changes constantly occurring within our mitochondria. Nutritional supplements such as acetyl-L-carnitine, R-lipoic acid, and coenzyme Q10 have been shown to improve mitochondrial function, while carnosine prevents age-related damage in cells due to glycation (the binding of sugars and proteins in the body). Still other nutrients, such as benfotiamine, Rhodiola rosea, and wheat sprouts, work in various ways to prevent age-associated changes in mitochondrial structure and energy production."

Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Autism, December 1, 2010, Giulivi et al. 304 (21): 2389 — JAMA

Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Autism, December 1, 2010, Giulivi et al. 304 (21): 2389 — JAMA: "Impaired mitochondrial function may influence processes highly dependent on energy, such as neurodevelopment, and contribute to autism. No studies have evaluated mitochondrial dysfunction and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) abnormalities in a well-defined population of children with autism."

Flawed simulation of a conflict that's difficult to simulate | Labyrinth: The War on Terror | BoardGameGeek

Flawed simulation of a conflict that's difficult to simulate | Labyrinth: The War on Terror | BoardGameGeek: "At bottom, terrorism as a method uses ruthless, dramatic, and well-communicated acts of violence to intimidate regimes into doing things they wouldn’t otherwise do. This approach gives the tiny group of terrorists power way out of proportion to their size, or the tiny percentage of the population that might actually support them. Because the vast majority of citizens vehemently disapprove of these methods, and the regime is not a failed state, terrorists remain small and secretive. In other words, it’s a very capable level of governance, in Labyrinth’s terms, that convince sthese groups to adopt terrorist methods and organization in the first place. (Unlike insurgents, who have more political and military space in which to organize and fight on a larger scale.)"

Time's 2010 Person of the Year | MetaFilter

Time's 2010 Person of the Year | MetaFilter: "I've formed close relationships with people I'd never think twice about if I just met them in a class twice a week. I've gotten to a point where I don't feel like I have any secrets from my friends. Not just my close friends, but from any of them. I don't hide parts of myself like I would otherwise. The prom night of my senior year in high school, I posted to Facebook a long, winding diatribe about why proms made me feel uncomfortable and scared and alone, and why I didn't want to be at the prom, and why I felt like in some ways prom intended to make me feel bad about that decision. Dozens of people responded, some of whom I'd literally never talked to, some of whom I'd thought must have hated me or thought I was a weirdo or any of the things a seventeen-year-old things people think about him. We all had a long, long, talk about our feelings. It was one of the first times I felt like I belonged — not just because of the amicability, but because I'd half thought that I was the only person who thought sad thoughts about things."

Time's 2010 Person of the Year | MetaFilter

Time's 2010 Person of the Year | MetaFilter: "Zuckerberg's vision of the Internet is different from yours. (Most of yours, anyway.) You see the Internet as an open frontier where literally anything can and will happen. He sees the frontier, too, but not as the endpoint that I think a lot of you do. For him, the huge open place is a space to build new hierarchies that have never existed before. (Hierarchy isn't the right word, though, because on Facebook everything is flat.) Facebook is a system designed to bring people socially together, regardless of what social things they're doing, regardless of if they happen online or offline."

Time's 2010 Person of the Year | MetaFilter

Time's 2010 Person of the Year | MetaFilter

Great post about Facebook.

Mapping America — Census Bureau 2005-9 American Community Survey - NYTimes.com

Mapping America — Census Bureau 2005-9 American Community Survey - NYTimes.com

The American System of 'Corrections'

The American System of 'Corrections'

Amazing prison thread.

Silenced Protest | MetaFilter

Silenced Protest | MetaFilter

Nice analysis of the prison system.

"You're in good hands and Gibbs will call last question." | MetaFilter

"You're in good hands and Gibbs will call last question." | MetaFilter: "There isn't a politician alive that's not a filthy, slimed-up bag of pus, it's just part of the job. And they will make deals, they will kow-tow to anyone they have to, they will pass legislation that is completely odious. It's vile. No US political party or system is ever going to be anything less than vile. But when democrats are in power, things tend to get better for everyone who's making less than $40 million a year, and many less people tend to get killed. I don't think the democrats even do it on purpose, as they are every bit as self-centered and criminal as the rest, but by mistake it becomes better for the average mope, ie me, probably you."

Neil Armstrong Talks About The First Moon Walk : Krulwich Wonders… : NPR

Neil Armstrong Talks About The First Moon Walk : Krulwich Wonders… : NPR

Parents Embrace ‘Race to Nowhere,’ on Pressures of School - NYTimes.com

Parents Embrace ‘Race to Nowhere,’ on Pressures of School - NYTimes.com: "“When success is defined by high grades, test scores, trophies,”’ a child psychologist says in the film, “we know that we end up with unprepared, disengaged, exhausted and ultimately unhealthy kids.”"

iPAD Learning LAB by The MASIE Center: Quickly building iPad Learning Apps with the iWebkit

iPAD Learning LAB by The MASIE Center: Quickly building iPad Learning Apps with the iWebkit

Neuropolitics.org

Neuropolitics.org: "Dopamine, and 3-Dimensional Space"

User talk:76.8.201.117 - Academic Jobs Wiki

User talk:76.8.201.117 - Academic Jobs Wiki: "Academic Jobs Wiki"

James Burke: Connections | Watch Free Documentary Online

James Burke: Connections | Watch Free Documentary Online: "1. The Trigger Effect details the world’s present dependence on complex technological networks through a detailed narrative of New York City and the power blackout of 1965."

Sedan (nuclear test) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sedan (nuclear test) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "The Sedan shot resulted in a radioactive cloud that separated into two plumes, rising to 3.0 km and 4.9 km (10,000 ft and 16,000 ft). The two plumes headed northeast and then east in roughly parallel paths towards the Atlantic Ocean.[5] A large amount of nuclear fallout was dropped along the way, narrowly dispersed in a relatively small number of United States counties. Detected radioactivity was especially high in eight counties in Iowa and one county each in Nebraska, South Dakota and Illinois. Most heavily affected counties were Howard, Mitchell and Worth counties in Iowa, as well as Washabaugh County in South Dakota, an area that has since been incorporated into Jackson County and is wholly within Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. These four counties measured maximum levels higher than 6,000 microcuries per square meter (220 MBq/m2).[6]"

Sushi With You � Blog Archive � The DigiPen Survival Guide

Sushi With You Blog Archive The DigiPen Survival Guide: Books

When you first come to DigiPen, they tell you to buy a whole bunch of books. Books on programming, on game production, literature, art books, all kinds of stuff. Don’t do it. Save your money. One of the first things you’ll notice about the books they tell you to buy is that they are obscenely expensive. Moreover, books are heavy, very slow to search, and they take up a great deal of physical space. You may think, “I like to buy it just to have it.” Good for you. You just bought an eighty dollar piece of clutter that’s going to make your primitive packrat instincts feel good. Suppress this. You’re already
paying out the *** for tuition, and more likely than not you’re going to be paying off your student loans for the next thirty years of your life. Spending $100 less per semester is a significant savings. But you won’t be spending $100 less, if you buy no books, you’ll be spending $500 less. At $7500 / semester, that’s an eighth of your tuition."

Play This Thing! | Game Reviews | Free Games | Independent Games | Game Culture

Play This Thing! | Game Reviews | Free Games | Independent Games | Game Culture

The Warbler's Nest: Play this for Honors 2100.

Justice E.R.: A New Name for Our Corporate Oligarchy

Justice E.R.: A New Name for Our Corporate Oligarchy: "Govcorp is a theoretical plan of government conceived by Mormon philosopher Justin Heninger. The basic premise is 'Communism without Socialism.' The ideal of this system is that the government works for a profit, thereby competing with private entities to win the business of the citizens. The individual countries governed in the Govcorp system would be ruled over by some greater entity with only the power to uphold basic rights of the citizens (such as freedom of speech) and also to allow easy movement between the different countries."

ksl.com - Murdered bookseller unknowingly bought stolen books from gang member

ksl.com - Murdered bookseller unknowingly bought stolen books from gang member: "n February of 2009, 20-year-old Lorin Nielsen was arrested and charged with stealing books from his father, a polygamous church president.

He sold them to Sherry Black for $20,000.

The books included a first-edition French Book of Mormon signed by John Taylor with a message to Parley P. Pratt.

In total, the books were worth an estimated $45,000.

When the father confronted Nielsen about the theft, the report states Nielsen warned him that 'if he got police involved he will set off a chain of events he's not going to like because he is a member of a gang.'

Police reports state Nielsen was affiliated with an Insane Clown Posse, or Juggalos gang and had access to guns."

25 Colleges With the Worst Professors - CBS MoneyWatch.com

25 Colleges With the Worst Professors - CBS MoneyWatch.com: "25 Schools with the Worst Professors

U.S. Merchant Marine Academy NY
U.S. Coast Guard Academy, CT
Tuskegee University, AL
Michigan Technological University
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Milwaukee School of Engineering, WI
Bryant University, RI
Bentley University, MA
St. Cloud State University, MN
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY
Minnesota State University, Mankato
Western Michigan University
Widener University, PA
Worcester Polytechnic Institute MA
Central Michigan University
Seton Hall University, NJ
Pace University, NY
Iowa State University
Drexel University, PA
University of Toledo, OH
Howard University, Wash. DC
St. John Fisher College, NY
University of North Dakota
Truman State University, MO
Mount Union College, OH"

Judge Thomas Porteous Removed by Senate After Impeachment - NYTimes.com

Judge Thomas Porteous Removed by Senate After Impeachment - NYTimes.com: "As a result of his removal from the bench, which took effect immediately, he will not receive his annual federal pension of $174,000."

Cross-Country Skiing: Among the Safest Winter Sports - Salt Lake City Metro, UT Local News - Fwix

Cross-Country Skiing: Among the Safest Winter Sports - Salt Lake City Metro, UT Local News - Fwix

Friend or foe? Google, indie book sellers team up - BusinessWeek

Friend or foe? Google, indie book sellers team up - BusinessWeek: "Over the past decade, the number of independent stores operated by the ABA's membership has fallen from 3,000 to 1,700, the ABA said. McQuivey expects hundreds more to close during the next decade."

The Vulture Transcript: Sci-Fi Author William Gibson on Why He Loves Twitter, Thinks Facebook Is ‘Like a Mall,’ and Much More -- Vulture

The Vulture Transcript: Sci-Fi Author William Gibson on Why He Loves Twitter, Thinks Facebook Is ‘Like a Mall,’ and Much More -- Vulture: "Any thoughts on why the tea-party movement is so successful right now? Why is everyone so upset?
It helps to have a black guy in the White House. Any black guy. If you want to do an old, grumpy white folks party, get a black guy in the White House. You get your old grumpy white folks to turn out."

The Vulture Transcript: Sci-Fi Author William Gibson on Why He Loves Twitter, Thinks Facebook Is ‘Like a Mall,’ and Much More -- Vulture

The Vulture Transcript: Sci-Fi Author William Gibson on Why He Loves Twitter, Thinks Facebook Is ‘Like a Mall,’ and Much More -- Vulture: "What’s coded intelligence?
If you make something, it’s an artifact. It’s something that somebody or some corporate entity has caused to come into being. A great many human beings have thought about each of the artifacts that surround us. Different degrees of intelligence and attention have been brought to bear on anything … I’m looking at a tall Starbucks cup right now. The amount of thought that went into getting that Starbucks cup to look exactly the way it is, as it sits on the bedside table next to me, it’s an enormous amount of information."

Bargain Junkies Are Beating Retailers at Their Own Game | Magazine

Bargain Junkies Are Beating Retailers at Their Own Game | Magazine: "In some cases, retail hackers take an attitude toward their targets that is literally paramilitary. Every year, Dev Shapiro, the 31-year-old moderator of the Black Friday boards at GottaDeal.com, plots a map of his own favored prey, the Best Buy store a few miles from his house. Starting as early as the Monday before Thanksgiving, a full 100 hours in advance, Shapiro arrives at the store to set up his base camp: tent, propane stove, rented Porta Potti. (“I charge a buck a dump,” he says. “It pays for itself.”)"

Bargain Junkies Are Beating Retailers at Their Own Game | Magazine

Bargain Junkies Are Beating Retailers at Their Own Game | Magazine: "Super-couponers complicate this theory considerably. According to Donald Lichtenstein, a professor of marketing at the University of Colorado at Boulder, super-couponers have learned to ignore “acquisition utility,” the pleasure and value one obtains from, say, a box of cereal. Instead, they peg their shopping decisions to “transaction utility,” the difference between what they’re getting the cereal for and what they think the cereal is supposed to cost. In other words, super-couponers don’t perceive a grocery item as food, at least not until they exit the store and serve it for breakfast. On the shelf and in the cart, the super-couponer evaluates products with the cold-eyed calculus of a trader."

Donna Haraway_The Promises of Monsters

Donna Haraway_The Promises of Monsters: "'The Promises of Monsters' will be a mapping exercise and travelogue through mind-scapes and landscapes of what may count as nature in certain local/global struggles. These contests are situated in a strange, allochronic time-the time of myself and my readers in the last decade of the second Christian millenium-and in a foreign, allotopic place-the womb of a pregnant monster, here, where we are reading and writing. The purpose of this excursion is to write theory, i.e., to produce a patterned vision of how to move and what to fear in the topography of an impossible but all-too-real present, in order to find an absent, but perhaps possible, other present."

Donna Haraway - The Promises of Monsters

Donna Haraway - The Promises of Monsters

The Learning Record

The Learning Record

I had forgotten that Meg Syverson did this. I need to check it out (again).

Cover Story – What Lies Beneath: Underground Chattanooga � Chattanooga Pulse

Cover Story – What Lies Beneath: Underground Chattanooga � Chattanooga Pulse: "The ruins are still there today.� Under the streets and buildings on the north end of downtown, a person feeling ratty enough can pop down a manhole when no one’s looking and see a side of Chattanooga that hasn’t been seen in over a century. Don’t expect to find gold tombs, Dead Sea scrolls or Rosetta Stones there. There is wonder, though: staircases to nowhere, rusted metal lights hanging from rotten ceilings, doorways that lead to blackness, old signs painted and crumbling on walls that were once street level. These ruins are the dream homes of ghost stories—Chattanooga Ghost Tours will even take you to see part of the Underground."