All those topics that i wish i had time to pursue more earnestly.

well, i stopped by the cellar, had some dinner, and walked home and by the time i made it to my apt. there was a mustang, spinning wildly way to close to a truck, which i notices after a bit more time wasn't mine, i waved for him to stop and tried to help him get out, but there is 1/2 inch of ice on the parking lot and immediate road, so there really was no hope. we made maybe 6ft of progress and that was all until it just started sliding back. so i helped him push it back out of the obvious lane of traffic, though i would have tried to push it a few more feet back. if its like that tomorrow morn, i won't be walking to campus, i'm not interested in more bruises or bloodied knees.

this is actually from metafilter, but i killed my queue this morning, so i didn't just repost it….

so kerry is married to heinz's widow, heinz was on track for a republican presidential nomination as i remember it…

“You actually got infected by the virus?” he wrote in an e-mail message to the former student, Robin Woltman, a university grant administrator. “You, Robin? For shame!”

oh my, is this the way we treat people who have technology issues?

Where Are They Now: Superbowl 2000 Edition. Everybody's been talking about last weekend's Superbowl ads, but what about the famous ads of 2000, the year the dot-coms dominated the game with their insane go-for-broke ad purchases? We know they rapidly flamed out in a series of business… [101-280]

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handy little historical reference of the dot.bomb era for superbowl ad fetishists

Bibliomining Information Center. Bibliomining Information Center
http://www.bibliomining.com/

For years, bibliometrics has been used to track patterns in authorship, citation, etc. Today, there are many more tools available for discovering similar patterns in complex datasets from data mining and statistics. In addition, tools from management science such as Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) can be used to explore the data for patterns. Therefore, a more complex definition is: Bibliomining is the combination of data mining, bibliometrics, statistics, and reporting tools used to extract patterns of behavior-based artifacts from library systems. I have added this source to my Subject Tracer™ Information Blogs on Knowledge Discovery and Research Resources. [Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker/Consultant]

The 'New Working Class'. I'm reading an ancient *cough* 1960 *cough* article, titled The 'New Working Class' (Lockwood, David (1960) “The 'New Working Class',” European Journal of Sociology, Vol…. [Fragments]

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frank gives some good advice for new article writers… I think it is somewhat important… tell people what you are talking about before you start talking about it.

sugar and snails. Boys Are Stupid, Throw Rocks At Them – in the latest iteration of crude preteen fashion, some girls are sporting anti-boy slogans as part of that “faux girl power” look. Further corrosion of civility…or are boys in fact smelly? [MetaFilter]

“'Action Will Be Taken': Left Anti-Intellectualism and Its Discontents” [Interactivist Info Exchange]

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someone said that untheorized action is fascism, i think that's right.

Something New to Worry About: Loss-of-Identity Theft. The ever-wonderful RISKS Digest brings warnings of Loss of Identity Theft I was recently the executor of a relative’s estate and was shocked to discover that I was able to cancel his private health insurance, his veteran’s health benefits, one dozen credit cards, and all of his retirement direct deposit payments with simple phone calls. At no time did anyone ask me to prove that I was who I said I was or whether I had executor power over his estate. I simply presented a plausible sounding story, knew his social security number and his account numbers and was able to close his accounts over the phone. To make it even more interesting our last names are not even the same!… [Discourse.net]