Here’s a hilariously true flowchart of the Richard Feynman decision-making process: [link]
Hard to believe he’s been gone almost twenty years.
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It is nice to see a bastion of the old, copyright-mad media latching on to the intertubes, rather than trying to suppress them.
This is a bit of an old story, but recently the first several episodes of the Showtime network’s original program “Weeds” were leaked to BitTorrent, resulting in no shortage of speculation that Showtime [...]

Here’s a terrific link: [link]
Michael Dukakis, the Democratic Presidential candidate in 1988, was recently discussing the electoral situation unfolding for the 2008 elections, and he correctly states that Democrats, while polls are running in their favor, should not be resting on their laurels and trying to cruise into the election resting on a platform of [...]

A while back, I wrote up a brief blurb about Jonathan Lee Riches, who is currently suing Michael Vick for $63 billion. Here’s some links to his other work:
http://www.citypaper.net/articles/2006-04-13/fineprint2.shtml - Riches names “The Magna Carta”, “Meals on Wheels”, and “Mt. Rushmore” as defendants.
http://www.citypaper.net/articles/2006-04-13/NC_FP_Lawsuit.pdf - the full 57-page PDF of the defendants’ list for the above [...]

Cringely of I, Cringely has an excellent essay on the telecom swindles of the 90’s-00’s. No, not the ones personified by such charlatan hucksters as Bernie Ebbers and C. Michael Armstrong, but on the fact that, by all rights, the American public should be enjoying fiber-to-the-home right now, rather than being promised such super-high-speed offerings [...]

After years of deriding their symbiotically-linked opponents on the far right for being profiteering nazis, it appears that at least one of the DailyKOS guys is really “one of the boys” after all. [link]
Hopefully, this will open the eyes of some of the people who populate Kos. Come on down to the center, people, where [...]

This post brought back some fond memories: [link]
Call control. It’s the most important aspect of support. The caller has to know you’re in control, and if you let yourself panic, it’s all over, as this article notes.
The good thing is that if you’re patient and take the time to learn what your caller is actually [...]

Here’s a fun site: Death by Caffeine.
I was interested to note that even with the ever-increasing caffeine level in both regular soda pop and so-called “energy drinks”, you’d still die of an exploded stomach and hyperhydration well before actually dying of the caffeine, provided of course, that you were of otherwise robust health with no [...]

Well, you didn’t expect the “Kossacks” to let this slide without airing their perspective, did you? [link]
Here’s their response. And you can plainly see that it’s chock-full of the condescending self-superiority that characterizes the usual discourse on their smarmy website. (You’ll notice also that the far-left and the far-right grow closer in attitude every. single. [...]

There were fireworks at the YearlyKos convention as a uniformed NCO in the Army Reserves tried to speak on the subject of his own experiences as an active-duty soldier in Baghdad. He was unceremoniously ejected from the proceedings, with panelist Jon Soltz claiming that speaking about politics while in uniform was against the law. [...]