Archive: February 03, 2005

Thursday, February 3, 2005

1. Slashdot has a good review of Malcolm Gladwell's Blink, which I've been wanting to read. One of the commenters pointed to this interesting discussion between Gladwell and James Surowiecki, author of The Wisdom of Crowds, which also seems like an interesting book. Here's day two of their back and forth.

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2. Cox & Forkum: St. George and the Dragon

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3. I just got my Wonderfalls DVD from Amazon today. It's so thin! How depressing.

   And, how dare they cover up Dhavernas' beautiful face with that stupid viewfinder.

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4. My wiki has been spam free since I excluded my SandBox page from search engine indexing. I'd recommend everyone who runs a wiki do the same.

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5. Bookpool: Exclusive Excerpt from Volume 4 of The Art of Computer Programming

   Update: Slashdot's on it.

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6. Ok, Hosting Matters sucks. My site was down yet again, and after checking the server's history it was down this morning as well. I put off moving last night because I figured I'd do it over the weekend. Grr.

   Hey, Pragmatic Programmer Dave Thomas is hosting with TextDrive now too.

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