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Tweets
- Halavais's law: risk of running out of toner increases exponentially from sunset to sunrise. 1 day ago
- My @zucainc bag's handle died during the Vienna Elevator Incident. Hoping to get it fixed before my next trip... 1 day ago
- Wish I had time for the #mongoliad : http://is.gd/eU82u 5 days ago
- In case, like me, you've been living under a rock recently: http://thewildernessdowntown.com/ (Thanks, Jeff!) 1 week ago
- Tomorrow is up at midnight and then bed at midnight. Blah. 1 week ago
- Napping in prep for a late night (Don Giovanni at Haus fur Mozart, then dinner), and early flight out. 1 week ago
- News item on my #Alpbach talk on ORF: http://bit.ly/bXZhDB 1 week ago
- Auditorium over full for presentation on James Bond and Physics. #alpbach #efa10 1 week ago
- Rain descends on the #efa10 in #alpbach http://twitpic.com/2ixsjn 1 week ago
Archives
Monthly Archives: June 2006
Very light gray
A copy of the book Blogs: Emerging Communication Media, published by the ICFAI University Press, showed up in my mail a couple of days ago, having made it from India via Buffalo, only slightly worse for wear. Like other contributors, the book came as a bit of a surprise. I had given permission to the [...]
All the young dudes
Microsoft has a new engine that predicts the demographics for a given search query or URL. Here’s their predicted audience for my blog:
So the mode visitor is an <18 year old guy? Maybe my blog is a kind of inverse picture of Dorian Gray–it remains a beautiful 17 year old, despite its debauchery, while I [...]
Ignorance is strength
These two links have been in my publishing queue since this morning, but now that Kevin has posted one of them, forcing me to break my self-imposed “1 a day” publishing pattern.
First, it would be nice if the new head of the NSA knew the constitution that he has sworn to uphold. Unfortunately, not [...]
What am I gonnna to do next?
You know what would be really cool. A sort of “choose your own adventure” for students, a simulation that gave them the opportunity to realistically get in touch with the risks and rewards of the extremely wide range of opportunities out there. Something that let you play out the possibilities, and get a feel for [...]
Buffalo Burlesque
It’s not especially difficult to find burlesque in New York, as the art is celebrating a bit of a renaissance. Clearly, I left Buffalo, a little too soon. Looks like fun; it’ll be interesting to see how it develops.
Online media and the future of journalism
Went last night to a talk at the New York Public Library celebrating Slate’s 10th Birthday, featuring Michael Kinsley, Malcolm Gladwell, Arianna Huffington, Jacob Weisberg, and Norm Pearlstine. Given the topic, “online media and the future of journalism,” it was one of those blogged-to-death deals. I’m slow to the punch, my friend Trebor Scholz wrote [...]
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