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Tweets
- 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 hr ago
- @eknight I have a bad feeling about this. 7 hrs ago
- If only all car commercials were this good... http://t.co/lGc8HBud #fb 1 day ago
- Things I'm not doing this weekend: http://t.co/ZEW612Im #fb 3 days ago
- Filming a congressional hearing? Be ready to be arrested for it. http://t.co/C7fuwy9k #fb 4 days ago
- Campus is changing to require password updates 2x a year. Their recommendation for a "tough" password: @Qu2012! Yeah. #fb 5 days ago
- Maybe the AAA (http://t.co/2S4falTt) should listen to @cshirky ToTN (http://t.co/EAs81JRv). 5 days ago
- More updates...
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Monthly Archives: July 2003
I won!
Just heard that I lost the race to become treasurer for the Association of Internet Researchers. I’ve already received a letter of congratulations (thanks Eszter!). Truth is that I already have too much on my plate, and that I am not at all disappointed in having that potential responsibility lifted. Besides, this leaves me to [...]
Wooosh
That’s the sound of the shortest new idea in futures research being quickly purged from the collective memory. FutureMAP is no more, it is a dead project. It has passed on, ceased to be, run down the the curtain and joined the bleeding choir invisible. It is an ex-project. So, who’s going to be the [...]
‘Unbelievably stupid’
That’s how Sen Byron Dorgan described a new DARPA project (FutureMAP) that allows for trading in global security futures. “Insensitive,” perhaps, “unpolitic” probably, but I don’t know about stupid. Presumably anyone with some cash could bet on a particular event (say, the assassination of a world leader) within a particular timeframe. Of course, this is [...]
What are you doing?
Having recently regained the full use of my hands, I am back to summer work. What work is that you ask? I have a bunch of things I want to complete before the Great International Reset Day (August 15): Email: Catching up with two weeks of unanswered email — sorry all. NGO hyperlinks:I’m working with [...]
Time for a makeover
This should be obvious, but nothing wrong with studying the obvious: In a study examining the links between looks and college course ratings, two researchers at the University of Texas found classes conducted by attractive professors were more likely to win top marks from students… Hamermesh and Parker say the biggest question arising from their [...]
Invade Mali now