Tara, have you seen The
Tara, have you seen The Anti-Thesaurus: A Proposal For Improving Internet Search While Reducing Unnecessary Traffic Loads? (via Meryl). The concept is that we could tell the search engines that really, we don't have any info on backup software or brains, and therefore, they'd stop giving this out as a site for people searching for those words. It's a nice idea, but considering that Google doesn't look at meta tags (or at least they won't look at mine--are they supposed to?), I'm not sure how useful this is in real life.
Here's a good article on
Here's a good article on assisted suicide and federalism. Why is it that conservatives like John Ashcroft are often only interested in federalism when it is convenient to their causes?
According to the NY Times
According to the NY Times (free registration required), The Web Turns Conversation Into a Trivia Contest. This is quite possibly the stupidest single piece I've ever read from them. I'd like to say something intelligent in rebuttal, but it was just so darn dumb that I can't even begin to respond to it.
Good article on some social
Good article on some social aspects of the soon-to-be-burgeoning field of nanotechnology, written by law professor and hyperblogger Glenn Reynolds.
Ooooh.... Apple's offering 6 months
Ooooh.... Apple's offering 6 months same-as-cash loans. I can buy that TiBook now (with the double-the-RAM offer!), and sell the Pismo and the G4 desktop in the first half of next year, long before I actually have to pay for the TiBook. The only question left is, in which tax year do I write it off?
Dahlia likes to watch: In
Dahlia likes to watch: In Zoning Out Porn, Slate's wonderful Supreme Court reporter explains why the Court was talking today about the acceptability (or not) of adult Wal-Marts.
Broadband connectivity was restored this
Broadband connectivity was restored this morning. Three days of shared dial-up can stress a marriage.
A year or two ago,
A year or two ago, there was a big hoohah in the Mac market because someone jumped the gun and sent out a press release a day early that their company had won an Eddy award. Now, Macworld itself jumps the gun and announces the 2001 Eddy award winners a month early. What's up with that?
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