Daily Archives: June 16, 2024

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  • Molly Bloom on Bloomsday

    Too long since I’ve updated the blog with a cute story centered on the pup. She’s over two years old now, born 3/17/2004. She has matured, and she is too bright for her plodding owners. We don’t always have words for what she wants us to want her to do. So she teaches us. Take [...]

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    Introducing the “NanoWarhol”

    A nanowarhol (or nw) = 15 minutes x 10-9 x (fame) = .000000015 minutes of fame = 9.0 x 10-7 seconds of fame = 0.0000009 seconds of fame The first usage of nanowarhol occurred in this post on the Krugle blog in reference to the brief ascendancy of the Krugle website’s popularity in Technorati following [...]

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    Stephen Antihero

    Pointing today, Bloomsday, to the New Yorker article by D.T. Max on Stephen Joyce (pointage ironically associated with an article by Finnegan, perhaps a yachtsman, perhaps a water skier, but in any event leaving a wake as he reports on organized crime and the New York waterfront). Lessig’s suit (on behalf of Schloss) attempting to [...]

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    left Wall Street for a new journey in artisan cheeses

    “He couldn’t understand why he couldn’t shoot his own computer in his own home…” I guess I see his point. As part of the Defense Authorization Bill for FY 1994, the U.S. Congress has asked the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) of the National Research Council (NRC) to undertake a study of national policy [...]

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