I am very interested to see where this story goes: Adam Savage of Mythbusters, while speaking at a conference, revealed that the producers considered doing a show revealing the flaws of the RFID tags in credit cards. Apparently the lawyers got Discovery to back down from even producing the show. Credit card companies don’t want [...]
I should mention that there is a good forum on RCN (as well as other internet service providers and cable providers) at Broadband Reports.
Why you need it, how to make more of it. Good lifestyle piece from the BBC.
At last, an appropriate facility may bear the name of a president. San Francisco has a ballot initiative to rename the Oceanside Treatment Plant after George Bush. Why did they wait so long? This should have been put up for a vote years ago.
The Village Voice continued it’s story on ousted Teachers College professor Madonna Constantine. It doesn’t shed much new light on the story, but demonstrates that Columbia was not quick to judge; rather it took its time investigating the issue and its conclustions were not reached hastily.
TimeOut NY has a list of Morningside Heights’ top eats. Their definition of Morningside Heights is a little off (typically it’s ABOVE 110th St.) and they missed Tacqueria Y Fonda Mexiacana, but it’s mostly on target.
The Village Voice is running a series on Madonna Constantine, the now-infamous plagiarist of Teachers College. Of course, she didn’t get her job through affirmative action, but by bulking up her resume with other people’s work.
Check out this dripping wet pussy.
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Wednesday, February 6, 2008
“I feel the tide of history turning against Smooth Jazz like it did against Disco.” Smooth is over reports WFMU.
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I’m in the midst of reading The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. So far I’m finding it a fun read, it touches on the same themes he introduced in Fooled By Randomness, (including the reappearance of Taleb dopperganger Nero Tulip) but explores in particular the rare event [...]