Wired News: Bob Dylan: Technology Sucks – Noting the music industry’s complaints that illegal downloading means people are getting their music for free, he said, “Well, why not? It ain’t worth nothing anyway.” vi Search: using commands of vi to search – How…. clever? (This was put together by some of the guys at Snap.) [...]

apophenia: Research on Social Network Sites – danah boyd is trying to put together a roundup of social networking papers accepted by refereed journals. Autopia – The interesting and unfortunately unsupported tidbit from this piece: One human life = $3,500,000. Wired News: This Global Warming Fix Stinks – Wired gets it all wrong. This plan [...]

Democratic Underground – Can a jet fuel/hydrocarbon fire collapse a steel structure? An experiment. – This is awesome. I’ll bet that JFK was somehow killed by a rabbit cage as well. Google wants people to stop googling | CNET News.com – I’ll take “ships that have sailed” for $1,000, Alex. times – How a wingnut [...]

Rum and Monkey: The Personality Test Generator – I got Yao Ming. CNN.com – NSA eavesdropping program ruled unconstitutional – Aug 17, 2006 – She declared that the program “violates the separation of powers doctrine, the Administrative Procedures Act, the First and Fourth amendments to the United States Constitution, the FISA and Title III.” Bowen [...]

alexking.org: Blog > I’ve Left FeedLounge – Alex King leaves the feed reader I’ve been using for the last few months. Creative Differences with the other founder. Which is too bad, because despite its sporadic performance problems, it really is a pretty good service. New York Daily News – Basketball – The $15 Mar-vels – [...]