So I just took Spencer to his voice lesson. Voice lessons?? Maybe I should get some voice lessons!!

Anyway, I brought along On Intelligence to read. It's a book that just came out by Jeff Hawkins, the zillionaire who came up with PalmPilots. Allegedly he just stumbled onto that, and his real first love has always been the exploration of ( Read more... )

Best five games of all time, in order:

1) Starcraft
2) Chess
3) Master of Orion 2
4) Tennis
5) Tetris

I thought that seemed a little sketchy, and it looks like it's not really true:

AOL explains it's privacy policy

Recently posted on Slashdot:

acaben writes "AOL has posted new terms of service for AIM, that include the right for AOL to use anything and everything you send through AIM in any way they see fit, without informing you. A sample passage: '...by posting Content on an AIM Product, you grant AOL, its parent, affiliates, subsidiaries, assigns, agents ( Read more... )

Computer taking a long time to start up? Lots of programs you don't want running, running? Get this free, tiny startup-manager program. (Once you install it, you'll find it in Control Panel.)

I need music! If anyone wants to help me out, just send me songs on AIM... I have it set to auto-accept. And if you want, do Get File, and all my songs are there for the taking.

Probably isn't worth reraising with big pairs preflop. (Exception may be facing min raises, especially in the early rounds.) Logic is that although it's nice to have the safety net of knocking out the marginal hands, your EV is probably considerably bigger by not putting the fear of God into everybody, and taking the occasional suckout on the ( Read more... )

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Are Disagreements Honest? This is a complex but interesting paper on using Bayesian analysis to, theoretically, come to some form of agreement about virtually anything.

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