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Tuesday, August 14th, 2007Long before toy magnate Irwin Mainway began pushing the “Bag-o-Glass” toy (why didn’t I think of that?) and long before mainstream toy companies began their race to the bottom by making lead-painted toys in China, one of my roommates at America’s Finest Liberal Arts College mesmerized us with his bold vision to build a factory […]
et al.: arguments for existence of a benevolent God
Monday, August 13th, 2007Who said there is no benevolent God? Praise the Lord (and pass the subpoenas…).
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administrivia: I’ve added bells and whistles to RSS feed
Friday, August 10th, 2007If you haven’t subscribed to my RSS feed, this might be the time to do so. Thanks to the good folks at Feedburner, who now offer a ton of handy social networking features that make it more useful — bookmarking, emailing links, etc.
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et al. I’m missing something, right? Nardelli will revive Chrysler?
Monday, August 6th, 2007To my knowledge, I’ve never blogged about cars (missed out on the male car gene: I just think of them as necessary evils to get from Point A to Point B, preferably with as few emissions as possible…).
HOWEVER, this was just too good to miss: Robert Nardelli, he of the multi-scazillion dollar severance package after […]
et al.: don’t impeach Gonzales
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007The temptation, no matter how overwhelming, to impeach Gonzo can’t go forward. Instead, we must look to a sage predecessor as A.G. with equally high ethical and legal standards (kinda along the lines of it takes one to know one…) for the proper course of action: “Let him twist slowly, slowly in the wind.”
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et al.: Shades of the Crusades — Benedict XVI throws fuel on fire
Monday, July 16th, 2007As if the Islamic world didn’t already have enough reason to suspect the West, Pope Benedict XVI, exhibiting an attitude that might might be more consistent with the 500’s (when Benedict I was pontiff), has reasserted that the Roman brand of Catholicism is the only “true” church . That leaves the rest of us […]
Distruption-tolerant networks: great emergency communication tool
Wednesday, July 11th, 200712/13/06
Wow! Here’s one of the final missing links in my networked homeland security strategy: an innovative technology that had this observer looking back to 1860 and to a playground game of tag.
Let me explain…
Network World had a feature on distruption-tolerant networks (DTN), mobile nets that continue to work even if there are “… broken links […]
Stephenson’s Homeland Security Laws
Monday, July 9th, 2007By way of introduction, these are “laws” in the scientific, not legal, sense, meaning “generalizations that describe recurring facts or events in nature.” Yes, they are definitely true, and shouldn’t be questioned by anyone, because I said so, and if you don’t play by my rules, I’ll take my marbles and go home…
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et al.: why is there no attention to detail by spammers?
Friday, July 6th, 2007It just occurred to me that I haven’t done any et al. posts since resuming my blog, so let’s put an end to that!
What provoked me was an email from “Danny Beard,” who went on to tell me ” Hello! I am tired this afternoon. I am nice girl that would like to chat […]
National Geographic feature: welcome boost to “swarm intelligence”
Thursday, July 5th, 2007I was gratified to see Peter Miller’s feature on “swarm intelligence” in the current National Geographic, because it’s mass media coverage such as this (or books such as Wisdom of Crowds) that moves the theory from the realm of entomology to a practical means to encourage — and benefit — from collaboration in human society.
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