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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 2 days ago
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Monthly Archives: May 2006
Network Karaoke
Kevin just caused me to waste at least an hour and start up IE (since it requires an ActiveX component) to play with kSolo an online karaoke machine. Well, I know you are waiting to see what I have to offer. I tried a couple of songs, and if you want to know why I [...]
James Carey
James W. Carey, CBS Professor of International Journalism at Columbia, died in his sleep last night. Carey is a giant among those who see communication and culture as inseparable. As such, many of the students in my former department at Buffalo were likely only briefly exposed to his ideas. Nonetheless, there are few–myself included–who have [...]
It’s made of …
“Pollo a La Brasa: Never Before served In The U. S. A. Our Roast Chicken Is Specially Brought Here for The Chicken Eater Lover. They Look As a Regular Roast Chicken. But, The Different Is Our Special Ingredients, You” – Flor de Mayo (landmark local Peruvian-Chinese restaurant)
Macbook Chicklets?
The new Apple Macbook features what some are calling a Chiclet keyboard, though the Wikipedia definition seems to suggest it is not. Rather, it shares the square keys of my first computer, a Tandy Color Computer. Nostalgia is great and all, but I’m looking forward to some typing reports from the field. I still remember [...]
How to cheat good
I just submitted my last set of grades for the semester. This is always a big weight off my shoulders, but since it will be the last set of grades I ever submit at the University at Buffalo, it is an even greater relief. And so I think it’s time for me to “give back” [...]
Call it $20K
LeapFish has a cute little widget that calculates the “actual value” of any domain name. That’s funny. I thought “actual value” was what someone was willing to pay for it. It values halavais.net at $19,154. Let’s just call it a cool $20K; after all, what’s a few hundred among peers. Or, clear title on a [...]
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