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The phony $1 CEO salaries are like “a fat person who devours two pizzas a day forgoing the mushroom topping to cut calories”.
Using your computer could kill you! (if you sit on your ass for 18 hours straight and don’t move so that the blood in your legs clots)
My very own online dry erase board
A […]

Want to know a gross feeling? The feeling of having eaten too much cheese.

The State of the Union poll on Slashdot is pretty funny. The different poll options are the ways moderators can rate Slashdot posts.
Bad News Bears find the $1.8 billion AOL Time Warner Center in NYC, since AOL Time Warner lost $48 billion this quarter. Isn’t it kind of dumb when architects say, “You could live […]

This morning, after I rocked my math midterm, I got some breakfast at the Medici bakery on 57th Street. Sitting beside me were two cute elderly couples. Eavesdropping on their conversation, I learned one man was a retired law school professor. His wife started telling the other couple the story of their engagement, probably 40 […]

Posted below is my response to an assignment for my Biological and Cultural Evolution class.
Assignment: pick an object (any bit of material culture) and trace as many cultural connections (e.g. where the object was made, the groups that use the product, the institutions formed to maintaining or repairing or exchanging the object, etc.) as you […]

Rather than studying for my math midterm, I’ll deliver you bits of tid, scraped like gristle from the charred frying pan of the Web.
First up, the music industry settled a lawsuit alleging they fixed CD prices. If you bought a CD between 1995 and 2000, you could be entitled to some money. Now I feel […]

Earlier today, while walking out of my Bioterrorism class, I heard some kids talking about Dr. Quintans, my kick-ass Bioterrorism prof. (An aside about Jose Quintans: He specializes in the plague. How cool is that? Also, he tends to answer obscure questions from students with terse, off-the-cuff comments such as “life is cheap”. He’s hilarious.)
So […]

URI stands for Uniform Resource Identifier, which we use every day to distinguish Web pages. Right now, you’re at the resource identified by ‘www.ktheory.com’. Basically, the URI is what’s in the address bar in your Web browser.
Several architects of the Web are wondering what URI’s actually identify. Taking Jon Udell’s example, the URI ‘http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/ 0679600108/qid=1027958807/ […]

Paul Ford has a new article over at Ftrain about software authorship and computing as a cultural practice: “every day I become slightly more like the machine I use.”
By the way, Mirah is fantastic. Download her song “Cold Cold Water”. It’s going on all the mix CDs from now on.

Yesterday on the news, I heard Janeane Garofalo rail about the hypocracy of U.S. foreign policy. Her main complaint was that the US was threatening to disobey the UN in order to punish Iraq for breaking a UN resolution. It’s true that the US is willing to act against UN consensus to ensure that Iraq […]

I drove with Evelyn, MJ and Margaret to Columbus, OH for the weekend. Evelyn had to get a “family portrait” taken, and she decided to invite some friends along. And we were all eager for some home cooked food (at least, I was). We also visited Margaret’s sister Nora at Kenyon College. There’s not much […]

I have neglected to post links to the weblogs of two Mikes.
Mike Morosi is an old friend from Binghamton. Now’s he’s a sophemore poli sci/econ major at Rochester. One time, we were playing Scrabble drunk. Someone put down the word “two”, and Mike yells out, “Twoah? Twoah’s not a word. I’ll challenge that.” He was […]

George Bush announced plans today to coincide our invasion of Iraq with the Super Bowl halftime show. Co-producer Carl Rockne, representing ABC Sports and the Pentagon, says,
“If you look at the facts, the Super Bowl is immensely popular, but the proposed war with Iraq is not. At the same time, televised bombing is immensely popular, […]

This morning, the kitchen faucet didn’t work in the apartment. I used the faucet in the bathroom instead, and went to class without thinking about it.
But what had happened (”wha’ ha’ happened”, says Susie) was that the pipes were frozen. So our landlords brought over this super duper space heater that nukes the hell out […]

Are you concerned about spontaneous molecular decomposition? Be prepared and carry a backup: put the human genome on your iPod (and still have room for all your Andrew W.K. songs).
Lou Dobbes’ wife gets caught packin’ heat at Newark airport.
The Morning News dares to compare: NYC vs. LA. Hot-shit NYC weblogger Elizabeth Spiers says good riddance.
Watch […]

Scientists in China uncovered what they believe to be the fossilized remains of a four-winged bird. The bird probably used the wings just for gliding. This strengthens the theory that birds evolved from dinosaurs via a four-winged, tree-dwelling intermediary such as was found.
But the slashdot crowd (from whence this link came) cries foul.
Man, how […]

I like television. I think it rots people’s brains and I won’t let my kids watch it until they’re in grade school. But it has redeeming qualities. They include The West Wing, old episodes of Law & Order, and recently Television Without Pity and American Idol. Oh, and Even Stevens.
Here’s a TWOP pull quote from […]

Richard Linklater (Dazed and Confused, Waking Life) has made a short movie that suggests Ground Zero should be turned into a park with roaming buffalo. (via Gawker)

Not that I’ve ever been on a blind date, but the idea of dining in complete darkness sounds pretty cool. The waiters use night vision goggles to bring your food. (via TMN)

A judge ruled that Marvel Comic’s X-Men action figures aren’t human. So Marvel can payer lower tariffs exporting them to China. I guess we’re just not to the point where we can accept mutants as humans.