Category — General

I love you, man!. I always thought non-alcoholic beer would be disgusting, but… ya know… thish shtuff ish reeeeeally awwriiiiiight!
(OK, it's only a measly 850 twelve-packs. But I'm already imagining scenarios…lawsuits?) [MetaFilter]

AoIR. I've been watching various blogs of folks preparing for their trips to Toronto for next week's AoIR. I'm headed there, myself, though sadly not giving a paper; at the time the CFP went out, I was committed to an ASA panel (ASA being, of course, the same weekend), but then,… [Planned Obsolescence]

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its that time of year, i like it, i can see my friends that i talk to on email. Though inarguably i will miss charlie, though i'll see him in november:) I'll see others and create my usual 'motes of interest and trouble' which is well…. just one of those things.

Repositories of Primary Sources. Repositories of Primary Sources
http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html

A listing of over 5250 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar. All links have been tested for correctness and appropriateness. Those added or revised within the last thirty days or so are marked {New}. [Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker]

Will Academics Start Fleeing California?. Already the “buzz” among philosophers is that the election of the absurd Schwarzenegger, in a state already facing enormous problems,… [The Leiter Reports: Editorials, News, Updates]

Tuesday Afternoon arrive
Tuesday Dinner Scheduled
Wednesday Morning Ethics Workshop
Wednesday Exec Meeting/Dinner
Thursday morning Give Presentation
Friday BOF Open Source
Friday General Meeting then Exec Meeting Part Deux
Saturday BOF Internet Security
Saturday Conference Dinner
Sunday Morning Brunch
Sunday Afternoon wander around toronto
Monday morning Leave

So i have all my lunches free right now, but many of my dinners are taken up with other business:( I also have some free time here and there, I haven't begun to really look at which panels i want to go to most days, but I'll definitely be going to quite a few panels.

who pays, who gets excluded because of that. in fact the most of the time it is just a new version of the same old systematic exclusion of people, in this case medical researchers, and the politics surrounding that can be extraordinarily problematic.

BOFH makes a hardware call. Episode 23 Bloody maintenance companies [The Register]

Rageboy on IRC.

After listening to me talk about the virtues of IRC, Rageboy sent me a link to something he wrote in 1996 about IRC and the future of discourse. As you can imagine, it's very funny.

[Joi Ito's Web]

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this is great stuff, hilarious and as true as any other possible reality.

Hot and Cool, Baby! ~ Post-Marshall McCluhan. Raumpatrouille meets Art. Art meets Raumpatrouille. This gallery of Shag Paintings comes inspired by an entry in the cleverly made Eye of the Goof weblog. Fab. Another Raumpatrouille Fan! [The Cartoonist] [The Mediaburn Radio Weblog]

these are some cool shags!

today i finished paying off my credit card debt from grad school, which i shouldn't have run up, but i was younger and less wise to the world of credit, but now it's all gone, no more done, yippee!