Self control freaks can now monitor their behavior while they sleep, meanwhile the control freaks are thinking evil thoughts about applying this to all their subordinates.
When hanging out in the world of ideas created by Ainsle’s work Emerson’s cliche “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” offers a nice perspective. Possibly Emerson’s point was that given a larger mind you can house yet more than one hobgoblin. In related news I see that when they cleaned up the [...]
Sometimes a scientific paper makes me giggle. The paper by Charles Courtemanche which I’m skimming this morning has a few examples of this. For example it says that people tend to under report their weight and over report their height; but more the former than the latter. It also includes this phrase “the food variables [...]
I found myself sitting next to a copy of “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” recently. I’d forgotten how much raw clarity and passion ran through the movements (anti-war, civil right, black power, feminism) of that era. Curious that having lived in that time one would forget. There is a very sweet, though deeply sexist, section [...]
This is rolling on the floor funny: ” … Theorists love the model of job market signaling . In this model agents perform a costly effort which produces nothing useful. The only point is that it is less costly to the able. Thus an equilibrium exists in which the able signal their ability by performing [...]
Dick Hardt from Sxip Identity draws our attention to a new light weight identity solution from, your not going to believe this, 3M! I agree with Dave Wiener’s point that the emerging Internet generation treats identity in fundimentally new ways, so while this solution is not conformant with standards, on many levels, it is both [...]
I have a two concerns about the Boston Marathon, which is Monday. We are forecast to have really horrible weather. I assume that if the weather was sufficiently horrible, 12 feet of snow, they would cancel. But? If they cancel the marathon does that mean everybody in Massachusetts has to have their taxes done on [...]
I love it! This development is entirely consistent with my hypthosis that Kernighan and Ritchie designed C’s null terminated strings intentionally as backdoor for hackers.
Why do I keep expecting John Robb to point out that rust is yet another example that validates his global guerrillas model of where the world is headed? What distructive force is further out on the long tail of bad actors? The ultimate in fire power rust coordinates it’s actions thru a swarm based attack. [...]
Can the economist v.s. sociologist Hot or Not? web site be far behind? (pdf)
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