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where wave meets particle No Simpler than this:
Friday, February 08, 2002
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White House Raps EU Internet Tax (washingtonpost.com)
its the exports argument. through this new medium, 'we own the marketplace', US world e-marketshare now gets protected by fights over taxes to elsewhere. the gloves are coming off. | ||
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"No one should practice analysis who has not acquired the right to do so by a particular training.
Whether such a person is a doctor or not seems to me immaterial." Sigmund Freud, 1926 | ||
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it sucks when the lightbulb in the place you store your lightbulb breaks and then cracks and throws shards all around you as you're trying to change it in the dark. where are those rubber gloves and insulated plyers? i'm not turning off the power for of this :) | ||
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I missed Aikido/class tonight.. because of .. of email! of all things. With the 'extra' time I had I posted a thing we have on the dojo wall. Its what reads like a credo, assigned to an anonymous 14th century samurai. I call it "Ancient Denounciations". They are pretty damn good. | ||
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just noticed the lovely new themes available 'out of the box' ... i dont get why the calendate picker is on the right hand side of the page more often than not. its an essential navigation instrument to me when reading other people's sites and i can really do without the extra mouse travel that putting it on the right causes relative to where my shortcut pane is.
speaking of shortcut panes... you can replace the default search pane on ie with custom html. this lets you access a custom shortcut layout and favorites on the left side. using the file-system driver you can custom build the shortcut and browser home-pages from opml files. i may just be catching on, i just dont get the calendar on the right hand side thing. | ||
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3 days till we see if using different email addresses when buying and using radio will result in community spaces getting zapped. i hope they dont.. but i wonder how they'll sync; there was no explicit 'event' registering me entering my serial number. | ||
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The Miami Herald has redesigned their site and broken my links to Dave Barry's current and past columns.Bye Bye Dave Barry. [diveintomark]
bummer, no i am not mentioning nielsen now. just bummer. its a bad _web news day | ||
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Music Sales Down: Is it Napster? Or is it lack of inspiration?. [kuro5hin.org]
maybe it's $2 CD RENTALS at "the last record-store" just a few blocks away from me. give 'em a 20 and walk away with a brand new cd of mp3 masters every week.. | ||
| # 17:54 HelloWorld |
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[Follow Me Here] 11:09 PM ... this is important and i'm going to snatch elliot's whole post. theory has it that we're seeing an organic rejection to how we live today filtering through these temporary imbalances. like a pendulum not at rest, life as lived today is forcing things one way.. until the body comes and sets it right. "Doctor it hurts when I do this.. don't do it then"...
"Call me crazy, but it seems like everyone I know is manic-depressive." Friends in High Places: This writer from the San Jose MetroActive intersperses colorful anecdotes about bipolar (manic depressive) friends and acquaintances with reportage about why the illness is becoming more visible -- the lessening stigma to major mental illness, the increasingly accurate recognition and diagnosis of the disease, and the increasingly effective treatments for it that allow normalization of the life of its sufferers (which probably contributes to reason #1) -- even though it is probably not becoming more prevalent. I think that, while this may be true, it is not necessarily the case that the increasing number of people among us who are 'out of the closet' with their manic-depressive diagnosis really warrant that diagnosis. One of the deplorable cultural trends shaping my environment as a psychiatrist has been the way in which the increasing medicalization of distress over the time I've been in the field has increasingly allowed people to adopt the bipolar diagnosis to explain (to others) and explain away (to themselves) other less palatable categories of labile mood and unstable behavior, especially borderline personality disorders (which, arguably, have become more prevalent in society from decade to decade). Increasing recognition of the disorder dates from around 1970, when the first medication with proven and dramatic stabilizing impact on manic depressive disorder, lithium, entered the pharmacopoeia -- because, arguably, one of the important reasons for diagnosis is to recognize something that you can do something about . Other comparably or perhaps even more effective medicines for bipolar mood swings have followed in the intervening decades, making this recognition even more important, but perhaps the diagnosis more circular (how do you know if it's truly a case of bipolar disease? if the medications that treat bipolar disease are effective against the case. What makes you think these are bipolar medications? They work on bipolars, of course!) But, in point of fact, mood stabilizing medications are non-specifically stabilizing to any cause of fluctuating or labile mood! Too much diagnosis is done by the 'walks-like-a-duck, quacks-like-a-duck" doctrine, which for the sake of empirical utility throws out almost all subtle depth-derived insight into the human process of a psychiatrically ill patient. Approaching a personality disorder as if it were an unstable mood disorder has profound and misguided consequences unless you believe that all there is to treatment is throwing medications at someone's life out of balance. While I'm an adult and not a child psychiatrist, I can't help being similarly concerned about the last decade's 'recognition' of a hidden epidemic of childhood bipolar disorder. Lo and behold, the proponents of this message go through theoretical contortions -- not very convincingly, IMHO -- to explain that we never recognized childhood bipolar states before because, counterintuitively, they look nothing like manic depression in adults. Predictably, they resemble conduct disorders and oppositional-defiant disorder, childhood analogues and precursors of personality disorders which may not be neurobiological in nature at all. Calling these behavioral disturbances bipolar takes them out of the realm where treatment and training to enhance personal accountability and self-control are conceived as useful. This 'recognition' of childhood bipolar disorder is one of the reasons for the explosive growth in prescribing of psychoactive medications to children. The other source of this, of course, is the 'recognition' of the epidemic proportion of childhood attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), which is now so prevalent in our school-age children that we could almost by current diagnostic practice label the modal behavior of the majority of kids in that age range with a disease! And, of course, being the good cultural materialist that I am, I can't help pointing out the economic advantages to the two big classes of 'winners' that sustain this 'medicalization of distress'. The pharmaceutical lobby, of course, wins big with the societal adoption of the meme that our emotional and behavioral distress can and should be medicated away. And members of the beleaguered psychiatric profession, struggling to hold onto market share in a managed care environment in which cheaper allied health professions increasingly displace them in conducting psychosocial interventions, do so by insisting they are the only ones who can take care of behavioral or emotional disturbances which are inherently medical or neurobiological in nature. 'I prescribe, therefore I am' ... | ||
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Burningbird has an interesting story on Google search engine rankings. Burningbird and Victor Echo Zulu are discussing a way to influence Google page rankings. Victor calls the process a "Googlestak". [Radio-Dadio] [We are the 801] ... pointers to the arms race in the weblog world. | ||
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Hacker's Guides to Higher Math?. I'm a working hacker who wants to learn more about the computer science..
i love the way topics grow and mushrom on kuro5hin.org. there's some real k-logging going on there | ||
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Where Is All the Linux Going?: "Doc Searls is Senior Editor at Linux Journal. " python/linux/apache.. web-services. the one linux article you need to read to make up for last month. the heart's beating strong. | ||
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Fragmente aus Kalifornien: "Frank Zappa still rules! und weil das so ist gibts ab sofort auf diesen Seiten oben random quotes vom Meister.", "So long as somebody gets a laugh out of it, what the fuck? - F.Zappa"
lol, heres a webservice i could use for my desktop-page: scrape the quote into a source and include the text through a web-service/macro. | ||
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links on Kolkata Libertarian: links about hawala and other extra-legal banking. | ||
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Synergy - something beautiful every day.
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| # 15:54 BizBuzz |
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Lord of the games ID is laughing all the way to the bank by continuing to resist to scourge of complexity. | ||
| # 15:51 BizBuzz |
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PARAMETERS, US Army War College Quarterly - Winter 2001-02: "A new century demands new ideas. The notion that stability is the fundamental strategic virtue is not going to be one of them. Ralph Peters retired from the US Army shortly after his promotion to lieutenant colonel so he could pursue a writing career. "
heads up, the man knows his tao. | ||
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#template: "Once upon a time there was a weblog. It wasn't a pretty weblog, and it wasn't a smart weblog. It was pretty much just like every other weblog. And so it deleted itself."
deconstruction guy. ..makes me think of something | ||
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The Miniature Earth turns the planet into a village. moving text and photography. | ||
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www.gulker.com Home Page Silicon Valley in words and pictures: "Dave Winer's kind mention on Scripting News of my Frontier-scripted production environment at The (old) San Francisco Examiner was the impetus to set down my thoughts about something I've come to call the Lightweight Content Management System. " | ||
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I, Cringely | The Pulpit: "Some of my most popular columns have been about my continuing struggle for good Internet service from my home in rural Sonoma County, California. "
he's plugging into http://sonic.net's broadband network from over the mountain. cool. | ||
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ABCNEWS.com has a video on a pump-action breast size enhancer. i thought i fell of my chair when i saw this. perhaps the added circulation -- gotten this way -- yields an anti-cancer effect
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posted some nightmare fragments to a story just now. email flames welcome. will re-read and maybe pull by the afternoon. | ||
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localnavigatorlinks. i've come to depend on them to provide additional options to me - options only available from my desktop. click to download.
<%weblogdata.m.drawnavigatorLinks("localnavigatorlinks",true)%> | ||