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Tweets
- NYT: "I would advise our readers to be good Bayesian thinkers..." As if we could be otherwise...? http://t.co/rLBUh1ib 1 hr ago
- RT @lizlosh: "If you don't know your state variables you don't know yourself" and calls to "occupy health" #futurehealthsd #quantifiedself 18 hrs ago
- Were I still a student, or pre-tenure, I would so be at the Summer Research Institute for the Science of STS: http://t.co/Vhc2cCi2 18 hrs ago
- Can't be real: http://t.co/98gVZNvA 1 day ago
- Here at Security Concepts, we're predicting the end of crime in Old Detroit within 40 days. There's a new guy in town. http://t.co/7uT6EQCR 1 day ago
- @eknight I have a bad feeling about this. 1 day ago
- If only all car commercials were this good... http://t.co/lGc8HBud #fb 3 days ago
- More updates...
Archives
Monthly Archives: September 2002
Scavanger Hunt
Not exactly inspired, but fun none the less: Anti-Capitalist Scavanger Hunt. (Stating here for the record that I’m less than happy with the “whack a CEO” and a few other entries on that list.)
Terrorist threat level “Yellow”
What exactly does this mean? Terrorists are expected to use caution when attacking the US? According to the “homeland security” folks, “Detained al Qaida operatives have informed U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials that al Qaida will wait until it believes Americans are less vigilant and less prepared before it will strike again.” Sorry, but [...]
Buffalo Terror?
I’m pretty sick of news coverage about the “terrorist cell” busted in Lackawana. A bunch of guys went to the equivalent of a “weekend warriors” camp and they are now “al Qaeda operatives”? I don’t want to downplay their activities, but at the same time, the news media seem more than willing to assume guilt [...]
More Ink
Not surprisingly (due to the subject matter more than anything all that original), journalists continue to be interested in the “Do-it-yourself journalism” chapter for the Pew report. It’s shown up in an LA Times article, as well as online.
Tom Robbins
Governments — and the armed agencies that served them — loathed intellectuals and artists and freethinkers of every stripe, but they didn’t particularly fear them. Not anymore. They didn’t fear them because in the modern corporate state, artists, intellectuals, and freethinkers wielded no political or economic power, had no real hold on the hearts and [...]
Bush Speacherator