Posts from — February 2007

I Wish:
Update: In light of the first comment, I’d better explain: this is the result I got when I ran discourse.net through dnscoop.com. For some reason it thinks that discourse.net is actually the apparently valuable (why?) seorefugee.com
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discourse.net was worth 6100+, the site says mine is worth a bit more… fictions upon fictions.
<div style=”border: 2px solid #cccccc; background-color: white; width: 115px; text-align: center; padding: 10px 0 10px 0;”><p style=”margin: 0″><span style=”font-size: 11px; font-family: arial;”><a href=”http://www.dnscoop.com/seorefugee.com” title=”Site appraisal for seorefugee.com”>My Site is worth</a><br><b>$12,500</b></span><br><br><span style=”font-size: 10px; font-family: arial;”><a href=”http://www.dnscoop.com”>How much is your site worth?</a></span></p><br>
<a href=”http://www.dnscoop.com/” style=”border: 0px;”><img src=”include/images/smlogo.gif” style=”border: 0px; width:100px;”></a></div>

Russ Nelson:
There’s no point to objecting to advocacy for free markets by
pointing out there is no pure free market, free of any coercive
influence. We can compare more-free markets to less free markets, and
decide which ones we like. If we like more-free markets, then we
advocate for free markets, all the while realizing that the people who
like less free markets will prevent us from having a completely free
market.

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Russ points toward an old post of mine about the claim of free markets. My point is that… we are dealing with fictions and fantasies when we talk about ‘free markets’ and ‘free-er markets’. Most things people(and note, i was not not addressing the specific definitions of economists, which may be more or less problematic depending on whether you think their formal models and definitions approximate anything beyond themselves) call markets are not markets, but regulated exchanges, regulated by too many factors to even approximate an ideal market, or even an ideal transaction situation. I think it would behove most people to go back and actually read Adam Smith’s thoughts on markets and specifically on the theory of moral sentiments in relation to markets, as I think that his work is closest to my position.

Metaverse Meetup:
So I decided to go to the Metaverse Meetup Friday night, because Eric Rice was in town and it would have been nice to meet up with Jeremy Hunsinger as well. Unfortunately, at the restaurant my introversion kicked into high gear, and after some standing around with a beer hoping someone would spontaneously decide to talk to me I made my way to a seat against the wall.
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Yep, I was there. It was a good time. I met many very interesting people and there are many possibilities for collaboration and development. I didn’t actually meet Steven, but I met Eric, Jerry, many of the sheeps, Rafi, Melody, and many many others. I didn’t do the video, figuring, I already have plenty of media exposure, but….

:
GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala – A 330-foot-deep sinkhole killed at least two teenagers as it swallowed about a dozen homes early Friday and forced the evacuation of nearly 1,000 people in a crowded Guatemala City neighborhood. Officials blamed the sinkhole on recent rains and an underground sewage flow from a ruptured main.

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sometimes the earth does open up and swallow people….

English Ballad Archive, 1500-1800:
“Dedicated to mounting online extant ballads published in English from 1500-1800, the English Department’s Early Modern Center at the University of California at Santa Barbara has begun by archiving the over 1,800 ballads in the Samuel Pepys collection. Thanks go to the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge, for granting us unprecedented permission to archive their ballad holding. Additional thanks go to the NEH for generously awarding the EMC’s proposal requesting $325,000 over the course of the next two years (2006-2008) to complete its Pepys Ballad Archive”
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I know some people that might be interested in this, so i’ll blog it.

About « Pratt-SILS Independent Student Blog:
Over the past few months (and perhaps years) people in the SILS community have been discussing the possibility of an alternative to the sils-announce listserv.
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The school of information and library science students started a blog.

Your results:
You are Malcolm Reynolds (Captain)

Malcolm Reynolds (Captain) 90% Dr. Simon Tam (Ship Medic) 60% Zoe Washburne (Second-in-command) 55% Derrial Book (Shepherd) 50% River (Stowaway) 50% Alliance 45% Jayne Cobb (Mercenary) 45% Kaylee Frye (Ship Mechanic) 35% Wash (Ship Pilot) 30% A Reaver (Cannibal) 20% Inara Serra (Companion) 10%

Honest and a defender of the innocent. You sometimes make mistakes in judgment but you are generally good and would protect your crew from harm.

Click here to take the Serenity Personality Quiz

5 Freaky Muppet Videos:
The Muppets exploded into worldwide popularity in the 1970s as regular performers on Sesame Street. But as pop culture changed, Jim Henson and his company found even stranger creatures to parody by mingling with real-world celebrities. The five-year run of The Muppet Show set the weird tone for a tradition they’ve continued to this day. These 5 online videos show what a long strange trip it’s been.
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some funny and strange stuff…

Crazy hours becoming the new standard -
Forbes.com – MSNBC.com
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Just how bad have things gotten? That’s the subject of Extreme Jobs: The Dangerous Allure of the 70-Hour Workweek, a recent study from the Center for Work-Life Policy. The study found that 1.7 million people consider their jobs and their work hours extreme, thanks to globalization, BlackBerries, corporate expectations and their own Type A personalities.

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if you give up the 40 hour work week… you are betraying a long tradition that many people fought very hard to establish.

Easy Graphical Multiplication Trick Video:
How to transform a multiplication into a simple counting ofpoints through the drawing of a square shape

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very cool