Wednesday, March 20, 2002
The Social Life of Paper
But why do we pile documents instead of filing them? Because piles represent the process of active, ongoing thinking.
masukomi modifies googleIt macro
Score! masukomi documents her googleIt macro for making googleIt links look likeSearch Google for: title of your post here.For the record, it's not just thelazy person's method.It's also theI-don't-know-how-to-do-this-on-my-own person's method.Thanks, Kate!
Fumes and Visions Were Not a Myth for Oracle at Delphi
William J. Broad
As is often the case in science, the find was rooted in serendipity, hard work and productive dreaming. At one point, not unlike the oracle herself, the scientists were stimulated in their musings by a bottle of Dão, a Portuguese red wine.
Providing Universal Access to Human Knowledge
[Brewster] Kahle says the last people to attempt to provide universal access to human knowledge were the ancient Greeks, with their concept of the encyclopedia and their library at Alexandria. Experts say the Greeks managed to provide access to about half their world's knowledge. Today, we're continually adding information to our archives, but we're losing ground.
The Stock Option Travesty
Whitney Tilson
[W]hat's the problem? My issues fall into three areas: dilution, bogus accounting, and perverse incentives.
Death by Content Management
Doc Searls
Gone or buried are all the local papers' local originalities. They were dispersed, everywhere, in a snowstorm of 404s.
Jeff's Radio Weblog
It's very gratifying to have others find my humble efforts useful.
Hey Jeff, your weblog has lots of cool toys. I'm grateful that you go out of your way to make them available.
Arthur Andersen audits Saddam Hussein?
We just got a message from Saddam Hussein, President Bush joked at a dinner last weekend, according to other attendees.The good news is that he's willing to have his nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons counted. The bad news is he wants Arthur Andersen to do it.
Supreme Court Seems Ready to Extend School Drug Tests
Linda Greenhouse
The Supreme Court, hearing arguments in an Oklahoma case, appeared inclined toward authorizing an expansion in drug testing beyond the category of student athletes.
Bush Leans Toward New Agency to Control Who and What Enters
David E. Sanger and Eric Schmitt
President Bush may accept a proposal from his advisers to merge parts of the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the Customs Service into a new agency.
Large Ice Shelf in Antarctica Disintegrates at Great Speed
Andrew C. Revkin
Researchers said this was the first time in thousands of years that the east coast of Antarctica's arm-shaped peninsula had seen so much ice erode.
Steel Tariffs are Taxes on American Consumers
Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk
It's easy for some lawmakers to make emotional arguments that tariffs are needed to protect the jobs of American steelworkers, but we never hear about the jobs that will be lost or never created when the cost of steel rises 30 percent. Tariffs are taxes, and imposing new tariffs means raising taxes.
The New York Times on Radio UserLand
Dave Winer
When we started syndicating Web content in 1997, I set a goal to get the Times headlines flowing though our space. Today, amazingly, that goal is accomplished.
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