tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60753552012-02-01T00:49:06.951-08:00Arbitrary AardvarkThis is a place where I can post stuff that is off-topic to my election law blog at <a href="http://ballots.blogspot.com">ballots.blogspot.com.</a>gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.comBlogger26301100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-9198871799362071912012-01-31T18:48:00.003-08:002012-02-01T00:33:22.675-08:00hat trick: my third post to boing-boing this month.Superhero-shaped UAVs buzz ManhattanBy Cory Doctorow at 8:00 am Tuesday, Jan 31 These three fellows made superhero-shaped RC airplanes and buzzed New York with them, giving the city the aerial defenders it has dreamt of for so long. Much of the video was recorded with UAV cameras, which makes for dramatic footage.Flying People in New York City (gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-73303274435869825182012-01-31T15:01:00.002-08:002012-02-01T00:49:06.960-08:00deleted.gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-73182317501051861632012-01-31T10:14:00.000-08:002012-01-31T10:18:13.493-08:00gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-76700472504040902832012-01-30T20:02:00.002-08:002012-01-30T20:04:09.361-08:00A person may not be detained and required to identify himself. Brown v. Texas, 443 U.S. 47, 53 (1979) Nor may he be punished for refusing to identify himself..I keep losing that cite, so now i can search for it in my blog if i need it again.keywords: arrested for IDhttp://www.reddit.com/r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut/comments/p39js/thug_police_arrest_man_for_recording_legally_in/gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-70220026579584965262012-01-30T19:17:00.001-08:002012-01-30T19:29:36.255-08:00http://www.baronbob.combaron bob's home of the mustache pacifier, the 'stache box, and other cool gifts.http://www.baronbob.com/human-organ-lunch-tote.htm I used to actually carry these when i was a courier.gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-83401232248045291602012-01-28T19:22:00.002-08:002012-01-30T14:30:06.661-08:00Lyrissa Barnett Lidsky,Authorship, Audiences, and Anonymous Speech, 82 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1537,1561 n.127 (2007).(cited in dissent to a tenth circuit (colorado case) upholding the stolen valor act; that is, the case held that the government can outlaw false speech, an obviously wrong conclusion. (obvious to everyone except eugene volokh.)gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-40984634497280638832012-01-22T20:20:00.003-08:002012-01-22T20:43:18.822-08:00today i got a story picked up by boingboing, but it's a more important story than last time (which was about how to win carny games.)22Click here to find out more!Foreign journalist claims corruption, brutality, death threats from Japanese airport officialsBy Cory Doctorow at 12:16 pm Sunday, Jan 22 Christopher Johnson, a Canadian journalist residing (until recently) in Japan published a ghastlygthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-3955295294126779942012-01-21T16:20:00.003-08:002012-01-21T16:27:18.772-08:00My internet connection isn't working right today. So I figured I'd grab something I could read offline. This is a new computer since I last downloaded Lewis Shiner's novels. I had to google for my own blog entry to find where those were, and while there I read his autobio. One of these days I want to write my own, even though I don't write well and I'm not famous, not having done anything gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-59309856114689914942012-01-21T08:19:00.001-08:002012-01-21T08:20:31.145-08:00mark your tools.this has been on my to-do list for a while.gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-21518060506490420332012-01-20T21:26:00.000-08:002012-01-20T21:27:49.418-08:00http://www.amazon.com/How-Get-What-Want-Girls/dp/145632764X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1326738731&sr=8-111 year old self-publisher, "how to get what you want for girls."gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-85743389622545439852012-01-15T16:40:00.000-08:002012-01-15T16:41:24.583-08:00gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-56059029379345754612012-01-15T16:35:00.000-08:002012-01-15T16:37:12.974-08:00http://www.stansberryresearch.com/pub/reports/201112PSI_issue.htmlgthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-36880402276789102442012-01-14T18:21:00.004-08:002012-01-14T21:54:16.770-08:00i got a thing about carnies, that i found on reddit, posted on boingboing.i got something about ron paul coming in second in new hampshire - on the democratic side, posted to ballot access news.monday is the night of january 16th. have an ayn rand party.HOWTO beat carny gamesBy Cory Doctorow at 6:02 am Saturday, Jan 14 Mark's written about winning rigged carny games before, and now the Art of gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-70675882852865204802012-01-14T18:15:00.004-08:002012-01-14T18:26:16.346-08:00http://www.hulu.com/watch/313732/sin-cityhttp://www.hulu.com/watch/313731/gangs-of-new-yorkhttp://www.hulu.com/watch/313729/rabbit-proof-fencehttp://www.hulu.com/watch/314877/supercophttp://www.hulu.com/watch/313726/ame%CC%81liehttp://www.hulu.com/watch/313190/midnight-expresshttp://www.hulu.com/watch/311372/ramayana-the-epichttp://www.hulu.com/watch/306482/velvet-goldminegthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-1233569890968965292012-01-03T14:16:00.003-08:002012-01-03T14:21:57.732-08:00http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/01/07/080107fa_fact_elliottI enjoyed this new yorker article about human guinea pigs, since that's something I do.It was mentioned in a book i'm reading "here is a human being: at the dawn of personal genomes" that my brother sent me for christmas,along with the latest grisham.It's about a guy who had his genome decoded and made public, something I'm gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-47687294517028656132012-01-01T00:05:00.003-08:002012-01-01T00:10:31.770-08:00Today 77 yen will get you a dollar. 1/1/2012.Wonder what it will be this time next year.Gold today is at $1564.A euro, near colapse, will get you $1.30, about the same as usual.gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-41515155241859349112012-01-01T00:01:00.001-08:002012-01-01T00:01:52.213-08:00slashdot skyping orangutans story for mariagthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-76055014758060925232011-12-31T22:01:00.000-08:002011-12-31T22:03:37.697-08:00year of the dragongthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-75490060598228230162011-12-28T10:01:00.001-08:002011-12-28T10:02:40.929-08:00http://www.theworldgeography.com/2010/11/15-smallest-countries-of-world.htmlgthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-15809181939364674022011-12-27T09:27:00.003-08:002011-12-27T09:31:53.069-08:00http://www.scientificamerican.com/slideshow.cfm?id=toys-ac-gilbertgthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-67333470183103524202011-12-26T12:56:00.001-08:002011-12-26T12:56:47.919-08:00http://www.colsonwhitehead.com/Home/Home.htmlgthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-49691298917610441242011-12-23T21:16:00.000-08:002011-12-23T21:17:28.128-08:00the cake is a pie - scalzi turns 13.gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-31837468666911038422011-12-23T21:04:00.002-08:002011-12-23T21:13:01.676-08:001. Yaffle 12 up, 5 down Uncommon English name for the European Green Woodpecker, immatative of it's laugh-like call (technically urban, you get them in green areas of town)Yafflehttp://boingboing.net/2011/12/23/cute-abc-book-for-android.htmlhttp://www.zazzle.com/custom_urban_dictionary_tshirt_light-235245270191392084gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-41130830702873417912011-12-23T16:44:00.001-08:002011-12-23T16:44:28.537-08:00opsigamyn. marriage at an advanced agegthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-34726562220620854912011-12-17T17:52:00.000-08:002011-12-17T17:53:06.519-08:00[–]IlikeHistory 525 points 1 day ago* Genghis Khan - BBC 50 minute Documentaryhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB5bX9m2G8wBarbarians - The Mongols 50 minuteshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ53WqklIo8&feature=relatedDynasties: The Mongol Empire- Part 1/5 50 minuteshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znKNqj0-jGgMongol Hordes: Birth Of An Empire 1/5 50 minuteshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-23472378343298997942011-12-15T01:29:00.000-08:002011-12-15T01:30:06.291-08:00introvertsgthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-11486545776958470212011-12-13T21:25:00.001-08:002011-12-13T21:25:44.424-08:00levywatch dept:will baude is guestblogging at volokh this week.gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-48726924387163326922011-11-30T10:12:00.001-08:002011-11-30T10:12:59.167-08:00http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2010/01/wood-gas-cars.htmlgthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-52567961544411192922011-11-12T07:13:00.003-08:002011-11-20T09:07:10.688-08:00http://www.hulu.com/watch/291453/snow-falling-on-cedarsIn the unusual coincidence department, later the same day I posted this i found 6 copies of snow falling on cedars in a dumpster downtown. I've read it before, not watched the movie yet.11/20 update: new computer, the old one had been getting harder and harder to use. so maybe i'll update a little more often this month than last month.gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-68241300906542439272011-11-01T19:09:00.000-08:002011-11-01T19:10:20.458-08:00http://userecho.com/about/world's most amusing about page.gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-23311566526544934452011-10-31T04:25:00.001-08:002011-10-31T04:25:28.517-08:00$1 = 75 yen, a new low.gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-27893504580545772792011-10-31T04:02:00.000-08:002011-10-31T04:03:20.558-08:00http://www.graphicwitness.org/historic/young.htmgthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-52370869107269402722011-10-31T03:40:00.002-08:002011-10-31T03:49:43.527-08:00Sloan autobiography, Gist of Art, was published in 1939. In his book Sloan explained that: "I have always painted for myself and made my living by illustrating and teaching. I have never made a living from my painting." In his later years Sloan became increasingly concerned with studies of the nude in the 1940s. John Sloan died on 7th September, 1951. note to self get 'gist of art'http://gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-33497720268006219962011-10-28T12:17:00.000-08:002011-10-28T12:18:23.470-08:00http://kurtsamsource.com/gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-28799147936382009452011-10-28T11:48:00.001-08:002011-10-28T11:50:01.704-08:00http://www.openculture.com/freemoviesonlinethis is amazing. via boing boingthe one i watched ws an alan lomax film starring a very young and cute pete seeger; who knew?gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-9461658776475191282011-10-28T11:46:00.001-08:002011-10-28T11:47:57.314-08:00Last updated: October 27, 2011 4:07 p.m.Beach umbrella sparks Occupy arrest in IndyTom LoBianco | Associated PressINDIANAPOLIS – State police detained an anti-Wall Street protester outside the Indiana Statehouse after they said he refused to take down a beach umbrella.Occupy Indy protester James Kerner was arrested Thursday morning and charged with criminal trespassing. State Police Spokesman gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-29034038065677671352011-10-26T00:06:00.002-08:002011-10-26T00:14:41.423-08:00Demise of aarbi.wordpress.com.This blog gets an order of magnitude more hits than my more serious election law blog.So I got the idea that if I went for the lowest denominator, gossip and sex and such, I might be able to get 100,000 hits a year. I was getting about 100,000 pageviews this month, when wordpress nuked the site. It seems I violated a term of service that had been added after I gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-90858716388401203042011-10-26T00:02:00.002-08:002011-10-26T00:06:27.420-08:00Blogcasting from http://www.thecoffeecartel.com.It's 4 am,and I have time to kill before my 7:00, after which I get to go back to Indy.Learned a lot of St Louis geography this trip. I can get places, but my routes aren't direct; mostly zigging from one landmark to another until I get where I'm headed.gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-73638090772193756972011-10-25T11:30:00.001-08:002011-10-25T11:31:59.652-08:00found a car i like. $8k, 70 mpg, 3 wheels, legally considered a motorcycle.the reviews say deathtrap, a bear to maintain.gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-70845448120876925522011-10-23T18:07:00.001-08:002011-10-23T18:07:53.780-08:00http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbackup/2011/10/flash-fiction-the-monster-in-my-closet.htmlgthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-42745424386275144352011-10-23T11:37:00.001-08:002011-10-23T11:39:24.636-08:00arrested for reading the 4th amendment to TSAgthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-52081313301051314032011-10-11T12:30:00.001-08:002011-10-11T12:32:04.431-08:00virginia postrel article about IJ case to legalize compensation for bone marrow "donation."gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-87810018413558320812011-10-10T15:31:00.001-08:002011-10-10T15:32:44.553-08:00advice from steve jobs:drop out of school, get fired, do what you love.http://www.ted.com/talks/steve_jobs_how_to_live_before_you_die.htmlgthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-54308068338198395152011-10-04T06:16:00.000-08:002011-10-04T06:17:00.737-08:00http://www.lowerthebills.org/gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-122536449310864882011-09-29T18:16:00.001-08:002011-09-29T18:44:07.219-08:00lost a page of text here when firefox crashed.i'm on a greyhound and the connection is iffy.it was a good story tho.gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-88674479289350940992011-09-29T18:01:00.001-08:002011-10-04T05:57:51.619-08:00DARK TANGOS (2011) Info PDF "Not only a great entertainment, but a meditation on the true meaning of justice." SAY GOODBYE (1999) Info PDF "The Citizen Kane of rock and roll novels." SLAM (1990) Info PDF "Plot twists worthy of Thomas Pynchon." GLIMPSES (1993) Info PDF A "surreal and riveting ode to the sixties." FRONTERA (1984) Info PDF "Hard-edged and colorful and relentless." DESERTED gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-46594761331398203772011-09-29T04:38:00.000-08:002011-09-29T04:39:09.216-08:00list of collective nouns gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-60731683425455573202011-09-26T03:58:00.000-08:002011-09-26T04:00:06.208-08:00gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-76276776413683737592011-09-25T10:56:00.001-08:002011-09-25T10:56:18.846-08:00elon musk interviewhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6K8NkJpUei4gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-24218098314254418232011-09-25T10:55:00.001-08:002011-09-25T10:55:40.980-08:00http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhp6P9Ygsoc&feature=player_embedded#!gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-28607976968617219262011-09-20T20:56:00.000-08:002011-09-21T14:22:45.327-08:00word for the day: hectocotylus.gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-54485336037630858322011-09-20T18:49:00.003-08:002011-09-20T19:03:05.195-08:00I no longer read 50 books a year, just a few. The one I read today was Dark Tangos.http://fictionliberationfront.net/dark_tangos.pdfArgentina, dance, romance, and spy stuff.Lewis Shiner, a big name in cyberpunk circles, has several other novels free onlinehttp://fictionliberationfront.net/While I don't read much anymore, I find I have between 2-3,000 books. They make good insulation, and in some gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-73841833597470602452011-09-13T11:10:00.002-08:002011-09-13T11:14:25.611-08:0050 new planets found by european space agency. this brings the total to 600, plus the 1200 maybes that are being investigated by the spitzer satellite. even better news is that 40% of the systems checked had saturn-sized or smaller planets.assuming that some systems have bigger-than-saturn planets, and other systems have planets we can't see yet, that suggests that more than half the stars have gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-32923443160534105462011-09-10T09:19:00.002-08:002011-09-10T15:19:19.374-08:00irish origins of american slanghttps://files.nyu.edu/jmm257/public/nunchakulaw/personal story of James Maloney, a new york attorney, merchant marine and nunchucku user. His father, 27, was stabbed to death in a bar brawl when Maloney was 6.gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-15639333387467020092011-09-09T04:59:00.003-08:002011-09-09T05:03:20.925-08:00http://www.htnz.co.nz/gallery/housetrucks/New Zealand housetrucks. My housetruck this week is my volvo station wagon, while I'm at a gig in West Virgina. This link is from a reddit thread about a citroen motorhome that gets better mileage than US cars do.My not blogging a lot lately might be related to my current reddit addiction.gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-44219070645893948262011-08-28T21:25:00.000-08:002011-08-28T21:26:25.978-08:00guy fawkes mask article in nytgthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-36030133221288029682011-08-28T02:49:00.002-08:002011-08-28T21:30:42.354-08:00 for those who don't know what this is about, teen heartthrob damian mcginty, recently of celtic thunder, wasone of the winners of the glee project,a reality show following the casting process, and will be a new member of glee. glee is a popular tv show (on fox?) about a high school glee club. I've been a big fan of both damian and glee for a few years now,so it'snice to see them coming gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-34352488770484006772011-08-26T10:23:00.001-08:002011-08-26T10:23:20.450-08:00In a recent post on his Weather Underground blog, meteorologist Dr. Jeff Masters takes readers on a tour of the “top twenty most remarkable weather events of 2010”: Earth’s hottest year on record Most extreme winter Arctic atmospheric circulation on record: “Snowmageddon” results Arctic sea ice: lowest volume on record, 3rd lowest extent Record melting in Greenland, and a massivegthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-17120477850552501512011-08-24T15:54:00.002-08:002011-08-24T15:56:56.151-08:00a friend of mine was having a settlement conference on the 14th floor of a building downtown when the earthquake hit,and felt it, here in indianapolis. might have imagined it, since everybody's texts and twitters and phones were going off at the time. i personally didnt feel anything, but i'm on the second floor of my home.gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-25540123774608511492011-08-24T09:44:00.005-08:002011-08-24T09:57:28.923-08:00a shorter version of the previous post: instapundit glenn reynolds has been covering the higher education bubble. today he posts about the high cost of college textbooks. two simple solutions, one easy, one a little less so but more worth doing. 1. teach the previous edition, which students can pick up for around $25. a ten page summary written by a TA would let them know what's in the new gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-20597609325540208562011-08-24T09:22:00.003-08:002011-08-24T09:43:52.172-08:00instapundit glenn reynolds has been covering the higher education bubble. today he posts about the high cost of college textxbooks. two simple solutions, one easy, one a little less so but more worth doing. 1. teach the previous edition, which students can pick up for around $25. a ten page summary written by a TA would let them know what's in the new edition. 2. open source textbooks. every gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-78381402226448359722011-08-24T06:56:00.001-08:002011-08-24T06:56:44.871-08:00obama closes washington monument, statue of liberty. what's next?gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-7460550951556667272011-08-22T13:41:00.001-08:002011-08-22T13:41:39.217-08:00word for the day ambigram.gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-79513832788295049122011-08-21T16:51:00.000-08:002011-08-21T16:52:12.236-08:00i should look at these sometime https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Keyboard%20shortcutsgthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-7160606053549603792011-08-20T15:38:00.001-08:002011-10-10T15:35:26.747-08:00bumped with updateBoing boing had strong praise for Ready Player One: the best science fiction novel I’ve read in a decade, comparing it to Philip Jose Farmer’s To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971). William Gibson’s Neuromancer (1984). Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash (1992). Cory Doctorow’s Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (2003). The Farmer is dreck; I've read it, but the other three are among my gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-58725157742812826412011-08-20T07:27:00.001-08:002011-08-20T07:28:44.431-08:00mad scientist at work, wilhelm roentgen gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-29297540818721662002011-08-20T07:13:00.002-08:002011-08-20T07:23:12.880-08:00 drops next month. amazon. “Stephenson’s REAMDE: perfectly executed, mammoth, ambitious technothriller...a triumph, all 980 pages of it.” (Cory Doctorow, boingboing.com ) gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-576854858354781932011-08-19T23:19:00.000-08:002011-08-19T23:20:06.931-08:00ron paul's birthday. he's what, 112?gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-39031793664656054832011-08-19T15:33:00.001-08:002011-08-19T15:35:21.661-08:00jamestown, earthworms, a history lesson from natgeo. TIL that the spanish settled virginia in 1570, 38 years before my family got there.gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-45222548111475581372011-08-14T07:10:00.001-08:002011-08-14T07:11:19.066-08:00larry and steve,early family guy pilot.gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-9017944728923766292011-08-13T21:55:00.003-08:002011-08-13T21:59:45.533-08:00the day of the dragon by guy endor. i read this in a ray bradbury anthology in the 1970s,and it came up in a discussion on slashdot the other day,and redditt helped me find it. http://www.scribbleandshutter.com/2007/writing/daybeaver/daydragon01.htm No, in those days no one ever thought of such a peril to the existence of the human race. I was young then, but I recall the times distinctly. gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-90490669022560908632011-08-12T17:05:00.000-08:002011-08-12T17:06:11.776-08:00http://blog.invisible-privacy.com/ free download of a good book i once read.gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-47351740554060511292011-08-10T19:57:00.002-08:002011-08-10T20:06:21.496-08:00correct horse battery staple. if you know what this means, you know what this means. we went to the state fair today. My roommate went to the correct horse battery stable. I went to see the elephant instead. http://abstrusegoose.com/385 this cartoon is about how we are all of us descended from a long line of winners, those who survived and had offspring. ancestry.com is a lot of fun in working gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-50551116407560743452011-08-10T19:54:00.001-08:002011-08-10T19:54:44.973-08:00http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1988gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-8838580738322744462011-08-04T18:48:00.006-08:002011-08-10T13:17:00.902-08:00ventus http://www.kschroeder.com/my-books/ventus/free-ebook-version something to read later. stross likes it. also a backyardiagans song http://backyardiganslyrics.blogspot.com/2009/12/mysterious-very-mysterious.html http://www.kschroeder.com/archive/Ventus/ i'm finished now.gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-72126175624006073212011-08-03T13:13:00.001-08:002011-08-03T17:08:42.400-08:00http://kukuklok.com/a basic online alarm clock.not as fully functional as i would want, but it's a start.to do: add http://gasbuddy.com to blog roll.gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-9582343594211004222011-07-30T18:02:00.001-08:002011-07-30T18:04:02.007-08:00http://www.slangsite.com/slang/H.htmlhas some pretty good slang. i'm trying to remember that hawaian buger - the loco moco?gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-37958563422126957822011-07-30T07:18:00.003-08:002011-07-30T10:31:59.740-08:00the murder roomupdate: frank bender, one of the three co-founder of the murder room, http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifdied two days ago,natural causes. the murder room is about the vidoc society, a philly-based group that solves old murders. frank's part was that he could take a skull and make a sculpture of how that person would have looked. danny devito owns the tv/movie rights; expect to gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-12168436515012759962011-07-27T21:31:00.001-08:002011-07-27T21:32:51.707-08:00gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-35228337780906518552011-07-25T16:59:00.002-08:002011-07-25T17:02:18.458-08:00tobolowsky files, episode 49. stephen gets shanghaied to norway to hear a drunken eskimo play in hamlet, in the zen story part 2.gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-5433999128874976242011-07-25T00:01:00.005-08:002011-07-25T19:18:27.289-08:00http://www.educatedearth.net/video.php?id=5227(something went wrong with this post. it should start off more like this:)japanese scientist has overpriced device for turning plastic into oil.using electricty to make heat, the plastic melts, boils into gas, the gas cools into oil.i'm a skeptic till i know about the process, but it's a nice idea. less fuel cost, it looks like he's getting 50 cents agthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-32773161887290880652011-07-24T09:48:00.005-08:002011-07-24T11:08:32.428-08:00Ted is an upcoming movie by seth mcfarlan about a guy whose teddy bear has come to life.Marky mark wahlberb, mila kunis, patric warburton, joel mchale, giovanni ribisi.it filmed in april so it's probably a year away from release by universal.my teddy bear, g.t.bear (gummi the bear), was not alive exactly, but had a personality, went on adventures, got mail, got email (which he let me share), gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-19294018435819497522011-07-23T15:48:00.000-08:002011-07-23T15:49:26.876-08:00fecilia day redditt videogthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-34957721400134076072011-07-22T07:29:00.003-08:002011-07-22T07:32:15.236-08:00jstor public domain papers from the royal society released by pirate bay in response to the arrest of the guy who downloaded a large amount of jstor papers. he's the same guy who put a lot of PACER filings online, a valuable public service.gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-33843177683318151132011-07-22T07:25:00.002-08:002011-07-22T07:27:49.443-08:00troy michigan is threatening to close its library unless residents pony up for a tax increase. here are my comments from boingboing.arbitraryaardvarkEvery Michigan city right now is facing budget constraints.One ploy I have seen repeatedly when citizens start to object to being overtaxed, is that the authorities will threaten to close the library.I am a fan of libraries. I grew up reading Asimovgthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-6079738841972773142011-07-22T07:23:00.001-08:002011-07-22T07:25:22.040-08:00these bamboo fences look nice and could easily be done by a doityourselfer rather than buying them from this ad.gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-23345105499686024552011-07-22T06:58:00.001-08:002011-07-22T06:58:48.083-08:00here is that asimov book i recently finished.gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-90618825967474928492011-07-21T21:29:00.006-08:002011-07-21T23:02:26.219-08:00george carlin chiche rhymes, possibly rap, technically slam.tropical fruit videothis carlin isn't as good.i knew a guy who used to live in a trailer park next to george carlin,and he would get drunk and complain like this.flying cargthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-12905609972280926492011-07-17T20:28:00.000-08:002011-07-17T20:29:23.791-08:00sea shepard v whalers, moviegthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-76641949472544564322011-07-15T12:01:00.000-08:002011-07-15T12:02:47.464-08:00soda pop shop video. short ad first.gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-46638842639263873922011-07-15T10:50:00.001-08:002011-07-15T10:50:38.737-08:00word for the day:Donaudampfschifffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft.gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-24826823070400859792011-07-14T16:15:00.001-08:002011-07-14T16:15:40.418-08:00holmesburg prison experimentsgthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-82618152554513389672011-07-12T05:58:00.001-08:002011-07-12T05:59:55.891-08:00strunk/white:Obliquely, this reminds me of the old joke about the guy who gets into a cab at Logan and says to the cabbie, "Take me to a place where I can get scrod". And the cabbie says to him, "Mister, that's the first time I've ever heard that used in the pluperfect subjunctive".gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-24981471437994257812011-07-11T22:38:00.001-08:002011-07-11T22:38:59.295-08:00The agency suggests that people protect themselves from heat disorders by reducing activity during the hottest part of the day, wearing lightweight clothing and drinking plenty of water. okThe agency also asks that people abstain from caffeinated or alcoholic drinks. wait, what?Even meat and other proteins can increase metabolic heat production. ok.gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-75797023758679450752011-07-11T18:57:00.004-08:002011-07-11T19:01:55.440-08:00http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100111.txtthe 7 pillars of wisdom, lawrence of arabia's story of how the arabs took saudi arabia from the turks in wwI. one of my favorite books, but somehow i'm not up for book length works online; i'd rather be able to read it in the tub. i'm not sure where my copy is right now. i have to many books to be able to find one particular book.this came up in a gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-64786610577159433802011-07-10T02:47:00.000-08:002011-07-10T02:48:33.540-08:00tesla's birthdaygthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-91910186756040983012011-07-09T15:08:00.001-08:002011-07-09T15:08:42.510-08:008 days till breaking bad season 4.gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-43328222766673586552011-07-06T21:07:00.003-08:002011-07-07T05:28:39.192-08:00a 7th circuit decision granting a temporary injunction against gun ranges in chicago shows that the 2nd amendment is starting to get taken seriously by the lower courts. a standard of review is beginning to emerge from these caseshttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif.courts will look to whether the activity in question is within the core rights protected by the amendment,and the degree to which gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-38135908720466794862011-07-04T14:14:00.003-08:002011-07-04T14:15:22.845-08:001 in 4 men travels with a teddy bear or other stuffed animal, reports reputable sources such as cnn and the frisky. I am one of them.gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075355.post-66200228790391239042011-06-30T21:10:00.001-08:002011-06-30T21:12:35.444-08:00I, row-boat. Doctorow story.Currently reading I. Asimov by Alex Haley.gthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12889694926704693924noreply@blogger.com0