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 We know they rapidly flamed out in a series of business… [101-280] ——- handy little historical reference of the […]

Bibliomining Information Center. Bibliomining Information Centerhttp://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 '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] —— frank gives some good advice for new article writers… I think it is somewhat important… tell people what you are talking about before you […]

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] ——- 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 […]

Valparaiso Declaration for Improved Scientific Communication. The presentations from the recent meeting in Chile, Strengthening Editors and Scientists Capabilities in Electronic Publishing (Valparaiso, January 14-15, 2004) are now online. During the conference, the 120 participants from 15 countries drafted the Valparaiso Declaration for Improved Scientific Communication in the Electronic Medium, which was released today. Excerpt: […]

Dean is tumbling.. Dean is out of cash. Somehow he blew through $40 million and still managed to leave the first Super Tuesday without a first or second place finish, anywhere. No mistake about his Meet the Press interview, though, which was felt as an incredibly strong and persuasive performance. It's obvious that Dean overestimated […]

How to make spam unstoppable. A researcher has found a way to get past the filters many people use to stop junk mail reaching their inbox. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition] ——- this isn't really a find or a discovery the logic of bayesian filtering in spam dictates that it works like this, […]

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