Spire’s Fundamental Law of Internet Dynamics

“Badness scales better than goodness”. Hmm. Ramification for Globalization/Connectivity Corollary? Discuss.

Rudolph TV Special Re-Imagined as a Mafia Story

Weirdly Funny!

Capitalism 3.0?

This isn’t it. It might make an interesting post or series of posts on the characteristics and rule-sets for a Capitalism 3.0 (tying in globalization, PNM Theory, evolution of the nation-state into a post-nationalism state and the rise of global non-state actors and super-empowered individuals, information and information technology, etc.). FuturePurpleslog has a big assignment.

Newt For President? No, But How About…[Updated]

Zenpundit endorses Newt Gingrich for 2008: I’m endorsing Gingrich simply because it will be healthy to have a candidate on stage who actually reads books and takes ideas with enough seriousness to effectively communicate them to a mainstream audience. Win or lose, Gingrich’s intellectual presence and inclination toward impulsive, rhetorical bomb-throwing will disrupt the hyperscripted [...]

Fun With Flickr: Photo Manipulation of Souvenir

The link is here. I love Flickr.

WAAGR Fundraiser – Milwaukee Area [UPDATED]

This is where I will be on Saturday in the Milwaukee area. Update: I had the wrong org name. Here is a web link. Update: Here the text of an email I sent a buddy on the GR event (modified to hide names): PurpleFriend, I am going to this on Saturday for some free doggie [...]

Fire Fighter’s Near-Miss Reporting System

Check out the link. The site says this: The National Fire Fighter Near-Miss Reporting System is a voluntary, confidential, non-punitive and secure reporting system with the goal of improving fire fighter safety. By collecting and analyzing information on near-miss events, improvements can be made in command, education, operations and training. and The reporting system is [...]

Funny Video Link

Heh.

Robin Spakles – Let’s Go To The Mall

Here’s her MySpace Page. Here’s the video on YouTube: The show How I Met Your Mother is one of my Top Ten TV shows – it is consistently funny! The video is a dark secret of one the character’s past from last weeks episode.

Whose Image Would Make Americans Use a Dollar Coin?

Zen Personal Finance asks: “Whose Image Would Make Americans Use a Dollar Coin?”. He then lists his top picks (not a bad list): Elvis Presley Martin Luther King, Jr U.S. War Casualties Robert F. Kennedy Jack Kerouac Jackie Robinson Marilyn Monroe John Denver Louis Armstrong Homer Simpson This could be fun! Here are my top [...]

Weekend Information Security Links, Part 1

So many links, so little time.

Ukulele Madness!

Check it out at this link. It is sort of a combination of karaoke with Ukuleles! I ordered a learner Ukulele off Amazon.com; also a DVD and a tuning pipe. Here were some of the clips I liked best from the site: Right Here Waiting Love is a Magical Mystical Thing Edelweiss Rio (yes, Rio!) [...]

The Paradox of Fighting Morally

Noted by Shrinkwrapped: The dilemma shared by Israel and America is just this: If by fighting morally, we cannot win a limited war, we create the conditions which will ensure the fighting of an unlimited war. My fear is that we are on the road to an unlimited/total war Arab/Islamic Civilization. Those who advocate fighting [...]

Greatest Software Ever?

Here’s Information Week’s list from a few months ago (I am catching up on a stack of trade magazines): Unix IBM System R (Source of RDBMS) Gene-sequencing software at the Institute for Genomic Research IBM System 360 OS Java language Mosaic browser Sabre system Macintosh OS Excel spreadsheet Apollo guidance system Google search rank The [...]

More Dept of Homeland Security Problems

The Secret Service this time: First Daughter Barbara Bush had her purse and cell phone stolen as she had dinner in a restaurant in Buenos Aires, Argentina, even though she was being guarded by a detail of Secret Service agents… What kind of Physical Security where they providing?

Federal Homeland Security is Still a Mess

From SFGate: For 16 months ending last year, Transportation Security Administration employees tipped off screeners from Covenant Aviation Security that undercover agents were on their way to the airport’s checkpoints to test whether the screeners were properly inspecting passengers and their carry-on luggage, the report said. Despite the charges, the private security firm was rehired [...]

Economics and Football

American.com has an article on The Econmics of Football that I found interesting: Football teams have a relatively simple economic problem to solve. They have to fill their rosters with players, and have to pay the entire collection of players an amount fixed by the league. They can add players in two main ways: sign [...]

New Technology to Recover Dialogue From Silence

AllahPundit links to a Telegraph article on: New computer software that can read lips at almost any angle has helped make sense of one of the Second World War’s lingering mysteries —Hitler’s home movies. The technology allows the dialogue to be dubbed on to the silent films, many of them made by Eva Braun at [...]

Pro-Illegal Immigration Lawfare Example

Via John Robb the New York Times writes: But now, after boasting of having captured 12,000 illegal crossers on land he owns or leases from the state and emerging as one of the earliest and most prominent of the self-appointed border watchers, Mr. Barnett finds himself the prey. Immigrant rights groups have filed lawsuits, accusing [...]

Total Social Movement Organizations as Global Actor

From StrategyUnit: a description of a Global Actor he calls “Total Social Movement Organizations” or TSMO – which is also another possible successor /competitor to the dominant state form the nation-state: Hamas and Hezbollah function as a network of charities, religious movement, social movement, political movement and military force. Only such an organization can easily [...]

More Buffy!

From Herc at Aint It Cool News, it appears there will be a Season 8 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer – as a comic book. I’ll take what I can get.

Peace in Nepal?

Noblesse Oblige reports that: The decades old Maoist insurgency in Nepal has now come to an end, at least on paper. I certainly hope so. I don’t think the Maoist see it that way though. This is just a step for them.

Non-Kinetic Leftist 4GW Forming in Mexico?

(Via Sloky) CBS News Reports: Based in Mexico City, the parallel government will not try to collect taxes or make laws. It will have one objective: to hamper Calderon during his six-year term that begins Dec. 1. His supporters have pledged to block Calderon’s swearing-in ceremony before the Mexican Congress, although they have not announced [...]

“So you think backdating stock options is legit?”

That is the Question asked by Sox First. My view is that back-dating (manipulating after the fact) options to maximize cash going to executives is clearly fraud against the shareholders. Those execs and boards should be fired, criminally prosecuted and civililly prosecuted. These sort of practices give ammo to the left and reduce the confidience [...]

Try to get Rid of this Ear Virus! Get out of my head!

No thanks to AllahPundit! Maybe if I play it on my kazoo for awhile… Update: I give. The wordpress.com code keep fucking this up. I will add it below. <deleted> Update: It looks likes wordpress.com youtube embeds are broken. Here is the direct link. Update: WordPress.com was just fine. I wrote the post with the [...]