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when worlds collide: oil, capitalism, and nationalism
OK, so a company in China is making a bid to buy a company in the United States. Seventy percent of the Chinese company is owned by the Chinese Government. The company in the US produces 167,000 barrels of oil an 1,826 million cubic feet of natural gas per day – both of which sound…
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yes, I know what to do with that screwdriver…
I have seen the insides of my iBook. I have seen what happens when a hard drive fails while you are logged in and using it. And I can tell you that the screws are that long for a reason, and that it is easy to to tear the ribbon cable that connects the touch…
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Revenge of the Sith
Well, it wasn’t as bad as the first two, but I have to say the best thing about the movie-going experience were the previews of Stealth, Batman Begins, and War of the Worlds. This movie did not ‘kick ass’. Nor did it scare me. Nor did it make me feel anything at all. It was,…
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misc dumb stuf
ok, so dumb stuff that i see and apparently no one else does:
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software distribution redux
I’ve said before that I really like the ease and convenience of tools like apt, gems, darwinports, cpan, and portage which let you ask for an application and then simply install it along with any dependencies in one fell swoop. Which brings me to today’s whiny rant: Apple. Now, i like Apple a lot, I…
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changing the rules
Seth Godin has a post about how the market leader sets the rules of the game up so that they will always win. (_Well, yeah._) He then goes on to say that changing the rules is the only way to win. This is essentially Godel restated and something I’ve been saying for years: if a…
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a shakabuku thought
gnothi seauton — the inscription over the temple of the oracle at Delphi; “know thyself” I laid in bed awake until 4:30 and thought great thoughts that boil down to these two questions: All based on Euclid’s definition of ratio in the elements Which centers around two words – one with many diverse meanings, one…
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technology, utility, the chasm, and the long-tail
There are two ideas out and about concerning the progression of a technology to adoption, and the consumption of something that has already been adopted. The first, the adoption chasm, is about there being a chasm between early adopters and mass consumption. There is a book. The second, the long-tail, is about there being nearly…
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Baseball, round two
The guy who is in charge of the World Anti-Doping Agency doesn’t like American pro-sports league’s policies on drugs [story here (http://http/slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Baseball/MLB/2005/03/18/965642-ap.html)] [ link broken, no archive ] Why does this guy think that his agency’s rules for amateur athletics matter for professional sports-entertainment? Why do people not understand that the fan experience is more…
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sport, steroids, and the sovereign
Maybe I haven’t been paying attention, but I’m still trying to figure out how we got here. What is the compelling interest of Congress in the internal efforts of a professional entertainment industry’s attempts to regulate performance enhancement on the part of it’s entertainers? What is it that makes it a Congressional issue? No one…