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I suspect that this may be pertinent to followers of the Andrew Keen trolling that the Net makes everything worse… Certainly it ups the quality of debate. 2. Top economists like Greenstone virtually never write papers like this. The simple reason is that this sort of work is not rewarded in our profession. Academic economists

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The Smiley turns 25 on the 19th! 🙂 Check the date correction on the Wikipedia article, though: 19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman 🙂 From: Scott E Fahlman I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers: 🙂 Read it sideways. Actually, it is probably more economical to mark things that are NOT jokes, given

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…seen that the TSA & friends have a tendency to ban stuff that upsets them: […] a passenger noticed the white substance in the bathroom of a flight from Tampa to Las Vegas. The pilot thought the threat was enough to land the plane as soon as possible […] All passengers were taken off the

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And we’re into the home stretch… I just got back from Dr Rossiter: the short version is that the knee is fine. The tender “lumpiness” under the incision is due to bone-regrowth plus scar tissue around a couple of hamstring ligaments which he had to move to one side in order to remove the screws.

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Via Adriana’s furl, I found a slightly hysterical-in-an-unfunny-way Boing-Boing posting which linked to an original blog post – the latter being a blog with only two postings. The paragraphs below are from the Boing-Boing posting; my mental responses to the paragraphs are infix and bold. The latest iPods have a cryptographic “checksum” in their song

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Sometimes things happen – you discover something, work something out, learn how to do something – and it changes the world for you and makes you very happy. It’s good when that happens. It’s nice that – teetering on the cusp of disaster – one such has managed to happen to me. And that’s very

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I love this: An aside. I was inordinately pleased to see that the BlackBerry predictive text support actually recognised the word foibles, even though it suggested doubles first. And how do I describe such words?. Surely there must be some word analogous to synonym and homonym that describes words thrown up as alternatives by predictive

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From http://community.livejournal.com/randompictures/2678229.html:

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I just discovered my ex-colleague Adrian Morgan has chucked work (except for the occasional contract, apparently) and expanded the home farm where he lives: The Empire Farm is an organic farm owned by Sally and Adrian Morgan. The farm occupies 100 acres in the Blackmore Vale, near Wincanton in Somerset. Sally and Adrian raise organic

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Telegraph versus Independent – a character sketch versus a picture of a personality and his achievements. Its not quite like “two different people” but it makes you wonder who wrote the Telegraph one. (via Nobby.)

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http://theinquirer.net/?article=42235 Jay Levy says he has been stung by Apple’s iPhone pact with AT&T after he took an Iphone on a Mediterranean cruise. They didn’t use their phones, but when they got back they had a 54-page monthly bill of nearly $4,800 from AT&T Wireless. The problem was that their three Iphones were racking up

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