Yearly Archives: 2005
Foucault Flouted
September 21, 2005 – 7:39 pm
Today Professor R. said that he stopped reading Foucault when he checked Foucault’s copious footnotes and found that Foucault never cited anything beyond page 89. That reminded me of this article in The Onion: “Area Man Well-Versed In First Thirds Of Great Literature.” And Prof. R. had this to say last week: “Habermas is a […]
Opera’s Now Free
September 20, 2005 – 9:42 am
A few weeks ago Opera offered free license codes, but the company recently decided to make its browser free with no advertising banners. Now Opera is in a better spot to help Firefox eat into Internet Explorer’s market share, a good thing for everybody: web developers and users. HT: digg.com
Where There’s No FEMA, There’s Still a Way
September 19, 2005 – 10:22 pm
Kudos to Gulfport’s mayor Brent Warr. When the local hospital needed gas for its power generators, he had his chief of police steal a fuel truck. “Can we hot-wire it?” he asked. Barnes said, “I wasn’t cut out to be a crook; that’s why I went into law enforcement.” “Well, can we get someone from […]
Technorati and Newsweek Join Forces
September 19, 2005 – 2:15 pm
I didn’t learn of this until I happened to post something with just the right tags. Then suddenly I started getting dozens of referrals from MSNBC’s Newsweek section. The online versions of Newsweek and the Washington Post now show related Technorati results in a sidebar. This should help Technorati stand up against the advent of […]
Hurricane’s Danger Not What You Might Think
September 19, 2005 – 12:37 pm
There’s an interesting tidbit buried in this CNN.com article. Apparently doctors are concerned that they won’t be able to handle the increase of accidental injuries that will occur as people return to New Orleans and try to clean up. Here’s the tidbit: this kind of injury forms a significant part of hurricane casualties. After Hurricane […]
Armchair Archeology
September 15, 2005 – 8:21 am
Using satellite images from Google Maps and Google Earth, an Italian computer programmer has stumbled upon the remains of an ancient villa. Luca Mori was studying maps of the region around his town of Sorbolo, near Parma, when he noticed a prominent, oval, shaded form more than 500 metres long. It was the meander of […]