Impact Analysis of the Watergate Scandal on Nixon’s Gallup Poll Presidential Approval Rating, an academic study by Robert Yafee of NYU. [via this AskMe thread.]
Matt and Bart!
Matt and Bart both have the, you know, online thingys with the posting and stuff. Which is purty neat.
Bellerophon is making the repeating grindy hard drive noise that means directory-structure problems. My site farm may be up and down over the next few days. Dammit, I just launched a date-and-event tied collaborative blog, too. Oh well.
Wha?
Berg, Al Qaeda linked before, reports the New York Daily News.
There is some seriously weird stuff going on here.
Trek tech at new SPL
Comm badges are set to be deployed at Seattle’s nearly-open Starfleet Headquarters main public library.
You know, the other day I happened to notice, driving by, that the administrative offices visible from the street were fully stocked with what appeared to be Aerons.
At the same time, it should be noted, this is a library system which shuts down entirely, web site included, for two weeks every year due to insufficient funding. No local library branch provides wireless internet access yet, either – I guess the installation cost of $35 to $50 in hardware is just too damn steep.
Finally, I was not surprised to learn that the central library will employ that wonder of technology, an automated book-sorting system.
In the early seventies, the newly constructed Monroe County Public Library opted to install just such a system, the “Randtreiver,” which promptly broke down and was eventually removed and replaced with that advanced functional book sorting technology known as shelving.
Sunday Reading
The New York Times > Washington > Campaign 2004 > John Kerry’s Journey | The Early Years: Prep School Peers Found Kerry Talented, Ambitious and Apart: the NYT opens their big fat JFK bio.
The Gray Zone: Seymour Hersh’s third chapter in the ongoing torture mess. It should come as no shock that the soldiers being prosecuted right now are fall guys.
Too short
My folks were in town a bit unexpectedly this week for a couple days. While there, my dad and I finally went on the biplane that offers quick little hops out of Boeing Field at the Museum of Flight. My dad’s first degree is in aeronautical engineering and he passed his love of planes directly on to me.
To my surprise, this was not only my first flight in an open-cockpit plane, but his too. It was a total blast.
Apparently, I'm not alone.
The Auto-Icon
Auto Icon FAQ, from the Bentham Project.
The ‘Auto-Icon of Jeremy Bentham at University College London, a linked paper on the history of said curiosity.
I was led to this page by the rumor that the auto-icon was available for viewing via webcam, something that appears to have been too good to be true today, although traces appear to remain.
No panopticon for Jeremy, alas.
Bummer
According to the new licensing structure that Six Apart announced today, I’ll need to pay them $600 to operate under a license for the new release that grants me the freedom to create unlimited numbers of weblogs with unlimited numbers of authors if any of the blogs is a commercial blog – which, arguably, mine is. As is a resume or portfolio.
Scuttlebutt is that one could still employ the application as needed without an honest license, but I strongly prefer to treat Six Apart aboveboard.
Bummer. I guess the thing to do is wait a month to see if they revise anything – but if they’ve done their homework, they certainly should not.
The reason God gave us the intarweb
Following Dent’s Power Law, this must therefore be the most powerful site on the internet. [via MoFi.]