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

Armored truck robber uses Craigslist to make getaway

[From Armored truck robber uses Craigslist to make getaway | Top Stories | KING5.com | News for Seattle, Washington ]

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bank robbers…. they are class heroes aren’t they?

The Universe of Discourse : The Lake Wobegon Distribution is a tight little explanation using baseball that also maps well into the way i think of most of the blather about power laws and related seeming web 2.0 statistic, which is that if you really analyze what is going, you find out that really it isn’t quite what you think. My critique of the power law people is to generally say, if you arrive at a power law, you are likely asking the wrong questions and that if you asked the same question in a different population, you’d likely find the same thing which would in the end, show your power law as insignificant. This article makes a different argument about how most people think normal curves are normal, but it shows pretty clearly that most places we’d expect a normal curve we find abnormal variation especially outside of the center bell.

Jamie’s Ministry of Food, the celebrity chef’s new TV series, is a powerful portrait of the socially excluded. It also reveals an enduring truth, says Felicity Lawrence: our diet today is as much about class as it always has been – and it will take more than a one-man mission to change that

[From Felicity Lawrence on Jamie Oliver's TV series Jamie's Ministry of Food | Life and style | The Guardian ]

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worth the read and consideration

For a long time I was working on a dissertation looking at Open Source technologies. Today, I did not turn that dissertation in. That project has been shelved. Today I turned in the first draft of a dissertation on the Critical Political Economy of New Knowledge Technologies. I have a ton of research on Open Source things, but in the end, I looked at all that has been done in the last few years and decided descriptive sts work on open source technologies didn’t really interest me so much as much as cyberinfrastructures, e-social science, and virtual worlds. Which, I’ve been writing a good bit about in the last few years. So That’s what the dissertation is about and its in draft.

RIP Hayden Carruth 1921-2008

[From RIP Hayden Carruth 1921-2008 | MetaFilter]

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Sounds like a Gentleman that it would have been worth knowing. A sad day is this.

Amherst College, in western Massachusetts, enrolled 438 first year students this fall, for a total student population of 1680+. I gathered the following to tell the story of the changes occurring here and now in the life of the College. [From IT Index]

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Here’s a great index of a small college’s it needs. I’d love to see several tiers of colleges produce things like this.

I have to say, that if you vote for the bail-out, I am not voting for you anymore. This bail-out benefits the wealthy in the short term and supposedly supports the rest of us long term, but that’s a fiction. This is Enron 2.0. We can support the rest of use in the long term by letting these behemoth companies fail, and for the wealthy to take the losses. The people who were invested in these companies can have basic pensions guaranteed through the government should they be in significant need. Otherwise, we have to let things fail. Go read the economist’s blogosphere.

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eeep….. this was post 5000 in the current blogging system.

Each room in OpenHuddle is designed to give you the freedom to interact with as many or as few people as you would like, in whatever way you want! Our Video, Audio, Text Chat and Drawing Board tools are available for you to use in whatever way you see fit. Just invite your friends into a Huddle and start interacting…discuss your new clothes, adorable cat, or anything else with as little as a webcam and a headset/microphone.

[From OpenHuddle]

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openhuddle is a new collaboration tool that lets you collaborate fairly efficiently across systems with multiple users.

Dear American:

I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude.

I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of 800 billion dollars US. If you would assist me in this transfer, it would be most profitable to you.

I am working with Mr. Phil Gram, [From Request for Urgent Confidential Business Relationship]

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perhaps the best representation of what is really happening.

History Hacker
Friday September 26th
8PM and Midnight
History Channel
(Right before and right after the first presidential debate)

[From The Sound of Electricity » NYC Resistor » Electronics, Hacking, Classes, and Workspace. ]

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This seems like it could be a good show, but alas i don’t have a tv.