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Franco is still dead, and Stanford B School researchers say that who you know dominates who get’s the job (abstract); now with improved with social networking.

Very fun screen cast of about the Java Script library known as Mochi.

Cool winter weather browser shows snow cover, percipitation, tempurature, elevation, etc. etc. etc. Those guys at the national weather service? They Rule!

A nice complement to my attempt to estimate the cost/mile of driving the car; here’s an attempt to estimate cost/mile of shoes.

And from that same source hiding images in sound.

I gather that the president of U of Chicago said:

A university is “an aggregation of sovereignties connected by a common heating plant.”

The internet is a aggregation of sovereignties connected by a common search engine? The general pattern here is that if you drop down Mazlow’s hierarchy of needs sooner or later a point to rendezvous your common cause will emerge.

Property rights - now a new major religion

Thrifty nude beaches?

Eating your own tail.

Users space filesystems are cool (language bindings).

For example you can finally build secure file systems doing things such as enforcing: ‘this guy can only make this pattern of requests’. How about edit Flickr in emacs?

Color Bubbles and temporary dyes.

Audio Search via speech recognition.

Guest host any PC OS on Mac or PC, for free.

It bothers me that this worked. I wonder if people are subletting pixels.

This blog is totally on a roll!

For example this wonderful example of how one metric could lead you to entirely the wrong conclusions.

What, if anything, can be drawn from any of this? Not to put too fine a point on it, but people are scandal-mongers in private and they are helpful prudes in public.

Of course this morning my questions is: while a snarky blog about silly patterns in the world of business is certainly able to attract an audience can Google’s ad placement AI find a group of advertisers that actually garner click thru? I’ll admit I was slightly tempted to click on the link offering to let me start my own hedge fund.

Decayed Machinery

I have a rule of thumb about signs. They send signals about the past. Once upon a time, someting didn’t go quite right. They got a sign.

I’ve been messing around with mt.el (an emac mode for blog editing MovableType blogs) but currently it’s not working out just right. It appears that posting works, but when it retrieves the postings all the open angle brackets are converted to <. It appears that movable type is sending the postings back with converted like that and the xml.el or xml-rpc.el that I’m using aren’t in synch with that behavior.

I have been getting some nice help from the author of mt.el though.

Now I’m playing with ecto. It doesn’t like the unusual characters that appear in some of my postings. Those are a gift of Microsoft Word. Ecto’s editor is surprisingly simple.

Ecto is a little easier for setting up pictures than the vanilla MovableType web interface though.