Sunset over Seneca Lake
The view from the Callahan's cottage, looking west across Seneca Lake....
2008-08-26T18:55:23-05:00
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Light posting for a bit
I'm out of town for a bit, staying at Mike & Mary Callahan's place (there's an SF connection for those who remember Spider Robinson's early work). I have internet access, although it's not super-convenient....
2008-08-25T09:45:11-05:00
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Unbelievable stat
According to this PC World article, "nearly 30 percent of Internet users confessed to purchasing something from spam e-mail." If that is true, it's no wonder that we're being deluged with more and more spam . . . it clearly...
2008-08-22T16:20:45-05:00
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The spoiler?
David Weigel looks at the number three guy in the race for the presidency: Never in the history of the Libertarian Party has an idea been executed so smoothly as the nomination of Bob Barr, a former Republican congressman —...
2008-08-22T08:27:24-05:00
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The media game of football
Gregg Easterbrook points out that Green Bay may have gotten the better part of the bargain by trading Brett Favre: Me-me-me-me-me. That's what you get with Favre. As a senior star, he has earned an amount of special treatment. But...
2008-08-21T09:27:27-05:00
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Rudy's revival?
David Weigel pulls together the clues and makes a strong case for Rudy Giuliani being John McCain's choice for VP. Ugh! So much for any hope of the VP candidate being any kind of balance for the ticket: Rudy is...
2008-08-21T09:02:48-05:00
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IPv6, the (distant) future of the internet
This was one of the best quotes on the topic I've found: "At its peak, IPv6 represented less than one hundredth of 1 percent of Internet traffic" over the past year, Arbor Networks' Craig Labovitz wrote in a summary of...
2008-08-20T14:57:35-05:00
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"Unpleasant Profession" coming to the big screen?
According to a news item today, Robert Heinlein's novella "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag" is to be filmed: Phoenix Pictures principals Mike Medavoy, Arnie Messer and Brad Fischer will produce the adaptation of "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag,"...
2008-08-20T12:32:04-05:00
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"I'm from the government, I'm here to help you"
Nine aircraft grounded as a TSA employee finds a whole new level of "incompetent" to lodge in: Citing sources within the aviation industry, ABC News reports an overzealous TSA employee attempted to gain access to the parked aircraft by climbing...
2008-08-20T11:05:01-05:00
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I had wondered about that . . .
Jon (my virtual landlord) sent me a link to a visual explanation of how they came up with the Beijing Olympic logo....
2008-08-20T09:26:35-05:00
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Restricting consumer choice, judicially
In spite of the 2005 Supreme Court decision which should have opened up the wine trade, there are still lots of barriers between wineries and wine drinkers. Jacob Sullum looks at the situation in Indiana, for example: Since then (and...
2008-08-20T09:03:51-05:00
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Wishful thinking in public health
Jacob Sullum looks at the growing support for mandatory calorie signage in fast food restaurants: Since they overestimate the demand for nutritional information, advocates of menu mandates also overestimate the impact of making it more visible. "Menu board labeling has...
2008-08-20T08:55:33-05:00
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No wonder teaching in Britain is a high-stress occupation
Theodore Dalrymple discusses the educational and behavioural issues when you raise generations of children with little or no parental control: If children are not taught self-control, they do not learn it. Violence against teachers is increasing: injuries suffered by teachers...
2008-08-19T11:04:15-05:00
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QotD: "A vodka fuelled Genghis Khan't"
. . . it is absurd to contend that Russia as a long term threat in the way the Soviet Union threatened the world for more than fifty years. Hapless Russia has a near mono-culture economy (GDP the size...
2008-08-19T09:06:57-05:00
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High gas prices induce lunatic "solutions"
Radley Balko observes the rancid combination of political ambition and economic ignorance in action: Obama's opponent John McCain has smartly opposed a tax on oil company profits — and Obama has promptly attacked him for it. But McCain isn't much...
2008-08-19T08:38:13-05:00
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