Flash Mobs are kind of a limit case of the first amendment’s right to peaceable assemble. I have no idea if they have similar constitutional protections in India. I seem to recall that Gandi was a fan of mass nonviolent resistance because it was a practical solution to pent up disaffection, better than violence. Meanwhile [...]
Assembly – Theory/calculus of how to assemble things. Skype – ? Blurb – How to use your critics to get blurbs for your book, or website. Play Money – Blog on the real money markets for online game commodities; see also Unreal Estate Boom, or, The 79th Richest Nation on Earth Doesn’t Exist. Fox News [...]
Fun summary from David Brake outlines from tools for tracking google queries and sales ranking at various bookstores. Ironically one of these, JungleScan, which shows winners and losers in sales rank on a given day, reports amoung it’s loosers Tipping Point. Down 65%. Amazon sales rank is, apparently, quite volitile.
Astroturf — generating site from the Bush/Cheney ’04 campaign will find send you letter to the editor to all your local newspapers and provides boilerplate you can grab and stuff right into your letter. Fight Back against Astroturf
Delightful Multimedia fun, via blog.org. Crude Slander — directed at the author of Nickle and Dimed: On (not) getting by in America
A fat young man without a good word for anyone finally gives voice to something that’s been bothering me and I now take it back. Meanwhile you gotta love: “astute readers will perceive here a man battling for his life against the forces of digression” – I certainly can relate to that!
Nice paper sketching an straight forward algorithum to layout a graph informed by the assumption that the graph’s connectivity exhibits a power-law distribution. The general idea is to sort the graph into rank order and then layout the upper-classes first and pack the lower-classes in latter. I love the way that a even a graph [...]
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