Year: 2005
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Matt’s links
Lots of good stuff over at Matt’s place lately: the wonders of Amazon’s new visual yellow pages, the Wikification of everything (and a very thought-provoking application of del.icio.us tags to…
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What’s going on?
My friend Richard called from Australia. Richard is a futurologist (no, really, he is). He publishes the very groovy What’s Next, which watches trends, and has a column in
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When voting really matters
The courage and optimism of the Iraqi people who voted on Sunday is obvious. We (all of us – pro- or anti-war) need to set aside our cynicism for a…
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Spend your money here
Mind blowing sale at Christies: ‘The Origins of Cyberspace: A Library on the History of Computing, Networking & Telecommunications’. Over 200 important documents from the history of computing, mathematics and…
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Best spam this week
From: “Richard” (qyield@yahoo.com.cn) Date: 28 January 2005 05:13:30 GMT To: steve@bowbrick.com Subject: tent Reply-To: sales@jxtrade.cn To Whom It May Concern, We have learned from the Internet that you are interested…
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My idea of heaven
Spending a really golden morning with my 5 year-old daughter Billie (she’s off school recovering from something called Winter Vomiting Virus – nice), reading stories, playing snakes & ladders, making…
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A lot of ifs
If people of good will turn out to vote in large numbers. If courageous officials and volunteers can see election day through without chaos or fraud or a bloodbath. If…