I just relocated 2 copies each of 1984 and Brave New World at the Hastings here in Laramie, Wyoming.
See Ministry of Reshelving.
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Monthly Archives: August 2005
Wyoming Ministry of Reshelving
Saturday, August 27th, 2005
Mathematical proof that I will never have a girlfriend
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005
Why I Will Never Have A Girlfriend
Tristan Miller
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
20 December 1999
Back from the northwest
Monday, August 15th, 2005
I’m back from the northwest. It was a great trip, much needed. Haven’t gotten much sleep the past few days, though. I drove 16 hours yesterday to get home from Portland, and went back to work today. It might take me a couple days to get the ball rolling again…
Google wants to know where you are
Monday, August 15th, 2005
Business 2.0 speculates that Google may be readying a free wifi program. Sounds cool, but: “Google’s interest in Feeva likely stems from the startup’s proprietary technology, which can determine the location of every Wi-Fi user and would allow Google to serve up advertising and maps based on real-time data.”
A number of people, notably Abe, […]
Leaving for Seattle tomorrow
Saturday, August 6th, 2005
Tomorrow I’m leaving for Seattle. I’m going to the northwest for a quick vacation. From Seattle I’ll head down to Olympia, then to Portland. I’m excited to get back out there after more than a year. It’s been nearly a year since I’ve seen anyone I knew from there - I saw […]
Community page ranking system
Friday, August 5th, 2005
Mary Hodder on BlogHer. A few words about BlogHer, and this interesting bit:
After 45 minutes of intense anger and frustration from many audience speakers in the room toward Technorati link counts and top 100, I suggested we create a community based algorithm, based on more complex social relationships than links. It’s something I’ve been […]
Abe calls ‘bull shit’ on the long tail
Friday, August 5th, 2005
Insightful piece by Abe on the “long tail”:
There is a huge philosophical issue at stake for those who are best termed the technorati, the boosters of high tech and networks roughly clustered around Anderson’s Wired Magazine. In this circle an awful lot of hope and thought has been invested in the idea that the internet […]