Has 'haven' for questionable sites sunk?. An effort to convert a platform in the English Channel into a “safe haven” for controversial Web ventures has failed due to political and other problems, one of the company's founders says. [CNET News.com] [A blog doesn't need a clever name]

well it was a somewhat tenable idea i suppose, but it was way to close to land. find a sunken pacific atole to build it on and you have something perhaps.

amongst other things:

Valery is known for saying:

At times I think and at times i am…. which is clearly an indictment of I think therefor I am based on phenomenal experience of flow in thought. when thinking, the I is always fleeting.

and

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them. …. which seems true enough, politics is always based on the knowing of something and the leveraging of that knowledge to some advantage.

Go, Nads!. Interesting list of college athletic teams' nicknames. [More inside.] [MetaFilter]

But there are no other Hokies, the Virginia Tech Mascot.

Microsoft and Social Cyberspaces.

As this press release reveals, Microsoft is active in researching the nature of trust and identity in virtual community. It's research sociologist Marc Smith “leads the Community Technologies group, which is developing tools that can help people make more informed decisions on which community members they can trust, instead of acting on blind faith. ”

Thanks, Paul!

[Smart Mobs]

[A blog doesn't need a clever name]

Marc's group does interesting work. He has several books out that inform this topic already, well worth digging out.

XML, metaphorically speaking. Bear with me on this post, everyone. It's on a technical subject, but I think the non-techies will be interested too. Give it a read, anyway, and I promise not to get techie again for a day or two. A… [Ben Hammersley's Dangerous Precendent]

This is an interesting position, programming or literary space. Might I add, an analytic space, which may not be literary, is similar to programming, but is makes sense of both. Analytic spaces are human readable, but rely intrinsically on definitions, namespaces. This is because they are defining relationships between the elements based on namespaces. Namespaces can thus become definitional spaces which provide for the context of the literary analysis.

Hacker hit parade goes live. A list of the top security problems on the internet which is updated regularly has been published. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]

is your server, computer, network secure?

I'm joining the 10% club: according to its Web site “RIAA members create, manufacture and/or distribute approximately 90% of all legitimate sound recordings produced and sold in the United States.” So, quick, get me a list of the 10% and I will spend every dime of the $2000 I once spent on RIAA and MPAA member products with the ten-percenters… I'm sure not buying anything from these guys, ever… [www.gulker.com - words and pictures from Silicon Valley]

this to me seems to be a perfect strategy, boycotts work, they always have.

Trackback in Radio.

Finally. Trackback in Radio. One more brick to get better connections. [Mathemagenic]

well i turned on trackback, lets see how well it works….