Category: General

The House passed H.R. 418, the “REAL ID Act of 2005,” today, the thought being that if there’s no support for a national identification card, ...

Larry Felton Johnson has accepted the responsibility for pedestrian safety in East Atlanta. But I finally acknowledged what I’ve known for a long time, th...

You mean that there are other languages with other alphabets? And some of those look like ours? The horror! Homographs, or letters which look alike but arenR...

Here’s one. I’m certain you, Gentle Reader, can identify many another. Microsoft Outlook permits the recipient to edit mails received. This is easil...

maps.google.com is neat. I’ve got one big complaint, and then I’ll shut up. The URI in the address bar doesn’t change. Thanks for the “l...

Watching this Supernanny show, because it’s what’s on in between our finishing Monk from last Friday and turning the TV off, and she’s instruc...

A fair amount of a priori knowledge is needed to execute this, including knowledge of which PSTN end-point you are using to exit the IP network, so it may not b...

D took the draft plans in to the assessor to see what our grandiose ideas might cost us in property taxes. He estimated an additional $3,300 on top of what we&#...

Phoneboy notes that T-Mobile has a map that will show you how well they cover your location. This way you can confirm that, yes, they do know that you live in a...

Phil Windley pointed to this Baseline magazine article on “in-sourced” their information technology operations: “Why JP Morgan Chase Really Dr...

David Fletcher points out the Government Performance Project‘s report card. New York got a B-! That’s some curve!

Jenny mentioned a class experiment documented in The New Yorker, 1992 House. (As an aside, how do you tell which New Yorker pieces are fiction? This one isnR...

I’d like to recommend City Comforts, by David Sucher. While its emphasis is the built environment of cities, the patterns presented apply to developments ...

[Sent this morning to the planputnam mailing list.] Aside from the oddity that Patterson will benefit while the project has the most impact on Kent, I think a m...

Jim McGee points out Martin Geddes‘s pointing out a paper from 2003 by Andrew Lippman and David Reed on “Viral Communications.” Mr. Geddes say...

Stephen Dulaney points out PrimaryGames, a game site for children, and observes They seem to be selling a range of banner ads, kind of cool to see a site that i...

I think we can judge what attracts idiots by the contents of spam. However, I would appreciate it if the lowlife would cast their idiot nets elsewhere.

The rumor mill is working furiously. Isn’t leaky information fun? Dan Gillmor worries about the impact on competition of an SBC purchase of AT&T. At t...

I noticed interesting behavior while observing the effect of a memory cache tweak on Firefox. First, the tweak. Firefox caches data on disk, but it also caches ...

Jeff Pulver has released his latest creation, Bellster. (Does *ster branding still have legs?) Anyhoo, this is a peer gateway service for interconnecting the pu...