You know, Microsoft has really opened up their communication on recent years, and they have totally embraced blogs as one method of doing this. Developers, managers and many others at MS have blogs now and use them to let us know that the big boys are thinking. Here’s a smattering… IEBlog jeffdav’s WebLog Tony Schreiner’s…

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It’s been a long week… I don’t know how much detail I’ll feel like going into. Not much in fact now that I think about it. I’ll hit the most important point for now, then get some sleep. Flagg is fine. For those of you familiar with the crew here you may already know that…

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 Some discussion of tagging… meta meta – Metafilter Flickr- Forums- FlickrIdeas- Tagwebs, Flickr, and the human brain Tagwebs, Flickr, and the Human Brain (by Jakob Lodwick) Porter Stemming Algorithm ConceptNet del.icio.us Welcome to Flickr!

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Baby got fat… She got real fat and I can not lieYou other brothers can’t denyand when she walks in with an tremendous wasteAnd a fat thing in your faceYou get flung, you say that?s enough‘Cause you notice that fat was puffedDeep in the shirt she’s wearingI’m sick and I can’t stop glaringOh baby, I…

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Some wireless networking stuff… Wide Area Wireless on a Shoestring Budget- CookieCantenna – SeattleWireless How to build a tin can waveguide antenna Antenna on the Cheap (er, Chip) Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network CookieCantenna – SeattleWireless Homebrew antenna shootout Omni-directional Antenna 2.4 GHz for 802.11b (WiFi) WLAN Greg’s Wireless Info Page

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Well, Iraq had free elections. There were some problems and obviously the terrorist scum who want nothign more than an Iraq under religious dictatorship didn’t participate (and tried to prevent others from doing so) boycotted. Fuck ’em though, things went well overall. What amuses me is the [[e2:hand wringing]] and upset. There are so many…

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A few links to charts of sexual activity in small groups. The first one, showing how the intimate relationships of a small high school are linked, is hilarious. Researchers Map The Sexual Network Of An Entire High School 37 degrees of separation – Metafilter the sexchart archive – IRC relationship chart

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Ah torture, near and dear to my heart… but in this case we are discussing it in Iraq. Apparently, if you can’t get good information out of a prisoner out of the methods many would approve (seemingly limited to “pretty please” as actually putting sugar on top is inhumane) you’re just out of luck. Never…

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Discussion of bias in Wikipedia… Wikipedia talk-WikiProject Countering systemic bias Wikipedia-CROSSBOW The Volokh Conspiracy – qwghlm.co.uk- qwghlmBlog- Wikipedia’s bias

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