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Monday, 2002 May 27, 13:31 — blogdom

a penny here, a penny there

How to make money off blogs according to Eve Kayden. If any advertising moguls are reading this, I’m willing to have a go. Six hundred pairs of eyeballs a month, baby!

Monday, 2002 May 27, 13:18 — cinema, security theater

zero tolerance

Darth Vader’s War on Terror.

Monday, 2002 May 27, 01:14 — me!me!me!

no nukes here, really!

Since logging began in November, I’ve had 13 referrals from www.iaea.org, which appears to be dead; whois says it’s the International Atomic Energy Agency, in Vienna. Ha? Is someone spoofing?

Update 6/01: That site is up now.

Sunday, 2002 May 26, 19:34 — drugwar

victory is around the corner

Freezerbox: This Is American History On Drugs

California now imprisons more people than do France, Germany, Japan, Singapore and the Netherlands combined. It has more people in jail for drug offenses than were in jail in the entire United States in 1978.

Sunday, 2002 May 26, 11:07 — eye-candy, mathematics

a great icosahedron

. . made in PoV-Ray using a couple of beta features. I took the liberty of naming the pigment “Tufte” : it uses unsaturated colors to represent angles in a natural way.

Sunday, 2002 May 26, 10:25 — security theater

your tweezers, please

Security can be more about power trips than safe travel. Hooray, we cranks are not alone in saying it. (Link from Monty Solomon.)

Saturday, 2002 May 25, 18:14 — futures

the final enemy

Charles Murtaugh quotes from the NY Times obituary an interesting sentence from Stephen Jay Gould (apparently in 1982 when he first had cancer):

“When my skein runs out I hope to face the end calmly and in my own way,” he wrote. However, “death is the ultimate enemy – and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light.”

What a contrast to the mystical morality of Star Trek, in which death is a duty to posterity and progress – the progress that Gould (like Dawkins) denies so often. ( . . more . . )

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