The Curious Engineer

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2005

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December 2005

  1. The evolution of social darwinism
  2. A topical review of Quantum Mechanics
  3. Writing to learn: Blogs and and the worldmind
  4. Why Apple won't fix AirTunes -- is it the microwave?
  5. How to Ship Anything
  6. The secret of happiness
  7. Unleashing the NSA: The real story.
  8. Hard drinks for men who want to get drunk fast
  9. Ideological transformations and the elderly
  10. Sixty years of peace
  11. The NSA unleashed: widening suspicion that the NSA was doing broad data intercepts
  12. Beyond Dover: legal costs, tort changes and wealth for lawyers
  13. Unleashing the NSA: What's the real story?
  14. Newsweek is talking about impeachment ...
  15. Revolt of the Professionals (WaPo): Will reason return?
  16. Judge Jones is not amused: Intelligent Design takes a Dive in Dover
  17. Left head bites right head -- Gmail filters blogger comments to spam box
  18. Credit to the young scientists of South Korea
  19. Winner of the Homeland Security Incompetence Award
  20. nthposition online magazine
  21. The internet and "white flight"
  22. Eating the egg -- earth and humanity
  23. Roy Moore, Alabama, and Christian Reconstruction
  24. Gwynne Dyer has 3 new essays up
  25. Blind spots, tech commentary and complexity
  26. Samsung - hiring 5000 engineers for DRAM work?
  27. Illogical design - the Narwhal's tusk
  28. A plausible summary of the state of Iraq
  29. Wozniak agrees: Apple's software quality is truly abysmal
  30. More speculations on the evolutionary biology of acne
  31. Incompetent Design: a scientist points out the flaws in humanity
  32. Agnostics for Lewis - Narnia the movie
  33. Gmail is getting better: new features
  34. Cheating on Amazon: positive reviews are far more "helpful".
  35. Intelligent Design - a simple voice of clear reason
  36. Philip K Dick - a primer
  37. Schizophrenia and the increased attractiveness of the non-conformist
  38. When science is rejected: AIDS and the failure of South Africa
  39. Global climate change, not global warming

November 2005

  1. Seymour Hersh on what's next in Iraq
  2. Mars - ice, ice everywhere
  3. Fundamentalism fun: open barrel, insert fish
  4. GOP will win on Roe. If they want to ...
  5. Earth belongs to the bugs
  6. Google, privacy, and outsourcing Total Information Awareness
  7. The singularity and why you should be very nice to your children
  8. Freedom, China and a suggestion for young American -- volunteer editors
  9. Olaf Stapledon - forgotten visionary
  10. Schneier on Security: Want to steal the identity of a Janus Mutual Fund holder?
  11. The "better bicycle" approach to avoiding identity theft
  12. American corruption: Is Abramoff a tipping point?
  13. Why the Xbox 360 and the Web 2.0 are awful news for the retail PC industry
  14. Is someone in Harbin China reading this blog?
  15. Harbin, China - since when is "millions" a town?
  16. Is war becoming too expensive?
  17. The perils of eBay, and why rough vendors like PayPal
  18. Life as an outlaw - my experience buying a grayish market phone
  19. How special are we?
  20. We're leaving Iraq -- Why Murtha enraged Bush/Cheney.
  21. The lies Bush and Cheney told - from former chair of the senate intelligence committee
  22. Steve Gibson's password generator
  23. Adventures in shopping continued: Amazon and daily pricing shifts
  24. Emily's new cell phone and the cost of complexity
  25. Who has the bigger middle class - China or the US?
  26. Fundamentalist history and biology - a bias issue for Universities?
  27. Eugenics, take II
  28. The American infatuation with performance: optimizing genius
  29. Autism-like findings in relatives of autistic children and the evolutionary biology of autism
  30. Conason flays Woodward
  31. The Walmart healthcare memo: You DO need to read the original
  32. Amazon pricing weirdness -- Digital Rebel XT
  33. How to Fund a Startup by Paul Graham
  34. God bless the plague
  35. In a dark corner of a secure underground Google parking garage ...
  36. Schneier: the real SONY DRM story is the failure of McAfee, Symantec and Microsoft to catch it
  37. SONY - "My God, what a fiasco".
  38. Combining PubMed RSS feeds with Bloglines to conveniently survey new developments
  39. Interesting alterantive to mass quarantine -- focus on the high-risk super spreaders ...
  40. iPod over all -- 10/10 on Amazon
  41. Gordon's Tech: Replicate the experience of 19th century phone service
  42. A quick preview on the next thing to blow your world apart
  43. All your bases belong to Google: the beginning of the end
  44. The Economist is falling out of love with Bush
  45. A diabolical use of Google Adwords
  46. The Ownership Society and the evolution of Social Darwinism
  47. Kaplan trashes Bush's new mantra: "I was wrong, but so were you."
  48. How to Write a Complaint Letter - eHow.com
  49. Where we learned to torture -- from Maoist China
  50. The story of a man who couldn't read
  51. What if the EU and UN declare Bush and Cheney to be international criminals?
  52. The neoprene back wrap and other parts of John's acute back pain recipe
  53. Smiting Dover - a test?
  54. Face your future grandchildren: support the Bingaman amendment
  55. The contract you sign when you insert a SONY CD in your PC and click on 'agree'
  56. Comment spam: moderated comments and identity management
  57. My blogs -- what I read
  58. Aetiology: Discussing causes, origins, evolution, and implications of disease and other phenomena.
  59. Pre-morning in America? The Dover creationists are dismissed
  60. France is weird -- the lawless areas
  61. Saint Paul's revenge: a traitorous mayor expelled
  62. Kansas education board unites physics and metaphysics
  63. SONY responds to the revelation they are criminal hackers
  64. Cringely is in great form: How Microsoft will respond to Google
  65. Google Local for mobile: another very big deal
  66. Venus - the eruptive planet
  67. Can we learn anything from the riots in France?
  68. Risks of old web pages -- linking to a wife swapping site
  69. Going down, coming up: The Economist and Newsweek
  70. Chemical weapons ring America
  71. A new fllight tracking site to add to my travel/business page
  72. Jimmy Carter has lost his flock -- can he call them back?
  73. Obsidian Wings: next steps in the war on terror
  74. Amazon: buy a chapter, then buy the book
  75. Return the past - Amazon engages human computers
  76. DirectDeals.com: obsolete windows software
  77. Stop the megapixel madness
  78. Beyond madness: big media and big politics
  79. David Brin on the failure of SETI
  80. George Bush; Deity of the Computer Simulation?
  81. The flu plan - with thanks to Katrina and Plane-gate
  82. The flaw in iTunes: 2 users, 2 iPods - and our RetinaLock future
  83. Bad day on the net: Google, Blogger, Apple
  84. Perverse consequences of 'digital rights management' - media centers don't work well.
  85. SONY jumps the shark - a spyware DRM installation with SONY music protected CDs
  86. The Bush/Cheney cover-up of treason worked
  87. How to Clean Gutters - from eHow.com
  88. Why the GOP doesn't worry about mundane reality -- Trent Lott and the end-times
  89. The Snows of Kilimanjaro are no more
  90. Do we really have an election in Minnesota on November8th?

October 2005

  1. Joel Spolsky explains why splogs (spam blogs) are proliferating
  2. Odd moments in tech history -- the analog laserdisc
  3. An original observation about alternative medicine: there's no internal conflict
  4. NYT has a good overview of concierge medicine
  5. Gwynne Dyer's erratic web site has a set of new articles
  6. Implications of the dyslexia gene
  7. The next big thing in telemedicine: doctor visits in virtual worlds
  8. How to be a successful quack
  9. google base - slouching towards life
  10. A 2002 article that detailed Google's direction.
  11. An expert's speculation on what life is like in Bush's place
  12. We could be worse. We could be chimps.
  13. Visiting the first church of scientology and Hubbard's offices
  14. Summary of the Scowcroft interview
  15. Don't donate your used PC -- it's not worth anything
  16. Digital Rights Management and the DMCA shall make criminals of us all
  17. Leon Kass: presidential advisor on the forgotten place of women
  18. Colonel Wilkerson on the cabal running American foreign policy
  19. Why is cell phone software so bad?
  20. Petition Microsoft to support OpenDocument
  21. What science fiction character am I?
  22. World of hurt - Kashmir
  23. Net history -- the oldest domain name in the universe
  24. SIDS is rare now, so it's back to the tummy for babies
  25. Andromeda unleashed
  26. Astronaut, cosmonaut, yuhangyuan
  27. Are large institutional investors betting the US market will continue to flatline?
  28. Good news on war
  29. Life in the new world -- don't even think of being in any way different
  30. Stop net fraud - make the banks pay for the externalities
  31. Condi Rice: we invaded Iraq to change the world
  32. Splogs (spam blogs) infest the web
  33. Heroes among the bureaucrats
  34. Is Amazon.com in trouble?
  35. Why does Miers horrify a part of the GOP? Because to see her is to see Bush
  36. Katrina - what happened in the prisons?
  37. Feverish update on the Fitzgerald investigation
  38. Firefox is less supported now than it was a year ago
  39. Minnesota was almost a creationist state
  40. What is the inconvenient fact about Miers?
  41. Editing memories and a thought on how AA might work
  42. At least 26,000 people have run afoul of 'no fly' lists
  43. Arctic oil - now ANWR makes sense
  44. How the Republican party morphed into the know-nothing party - the republican war on science
  45. The Manchurian President
  46. Gamma ray bursters and the Fermi paradox: Earth has 1 billion years left
  47. Rogues gallery - 15 Bush appointees of remarkable mediocrity
  48. How to survive the coming pandemic?
  49. How to build a successful academic career
  50. The senatorial hall of shame - 9 who voted against the McCain no-torture bill
  51. Scandal update from Molly Ivins
  52. Salon reviews the Assassin's Gate
  53. Evolution in action: email worms keep getting smarter
  54. The National Review - a sober conservative publication - 1957
  55. The vast gap between action and insight - US homeowner edition
  56. The fate of the vanishing American middle-class
  57. Hikers who disappear in the wilderness
  58. Google socks Microsoft -- a big bet on OpenOffice and open file formats
  59. Why I hate science - Bicyles are bad for men
  60. Quicksand really can trap people
  61. Only in the movies
  62. Breeding dogs for longer lifespans
  63. Abramoff and the mystery of the murdered casino owner
  64. Shock -- American government is corrupt
  65. What Creationists cliam - a compendium
  66. Sprawl - the Minnesota version

September 2005

  1. Comparative advantage: a one line summary
  2. American torture - a study in camels
  3. Building a personal voice notes internet service
  4. Salon summarizes the DeLay / Abramoff story
  5. Online gambling - 1905
  6. On grief - New York Times Magazine
  7. Iraqi strategy: the Bush view versus the military view
  8. Once there were real Republicans
  9. HIV Denial: the tragic price of a delusion
  10. On human memory
  11. Balance the budget? It was trivial, thanks.
  12. The lost war: Wellstone was right
  13. Palm stops flogging its ex-horse
  14. As expected - routine torture of Iraqi prisoners for fun and amusement
  15. Wikipedia - becoming astounding
  16. Educational apartheid in America -- noble intent, crummy article
  17. A covert source of Krugman columns -- post NYT OpEd paywall
  18. Google secure access
  19. Remote Desktop Connection for the Mac -- pretty good, but not perfect
  20. Very disappointing news on schizophrenia
  21. Good-bye NYT, Hello WaPo
  22. Weird SPAM from SPAMIS -- using my email address
  23. If Bill Clinton were president for a day ...
  24. More encouraging news from brain science: your frontal lobes are toast
  25. Flying over Africa with Google Earth and National Geographic
  26. Tracking references with Bloglines and Google Blog Search
  27. The New Balance 991: Cult of the Geek Running Shoe
  28. Google Earth Integrates National Geographic Africa: this is so bloody amazing
  29. An evolutionary biology blog on the ASPM and Microcephalin papers
  30. The joy of bugs -- Access and Excel
  31. Hold off on iTunes 5.0 updates until Apple fixes the bugs
  32. The Mailinator Spam Map - where spam comes from
  33. Whatever happened to parental controls on software?
  34. The children in the cages - sentencing Ohio
  35. Nasty, snappish and dull -- the president of the USA
  36. Neo-feudalism
  37. Diminished responsibility: the next cultural battleground
  38. The evolution of the human brain: ASPM, microcephalin and FOXP2
  39. Distemper and the death of the american dog
  40. The NYT Magazine reviews the war on terror
  41. Finally -- blogger knows BlogThis is broken.
  42. Specialization and the wealth of nations
  43. Medium lobster defends the President
  44. Mars - the water planet
  45. Escape from voice mail hell - a database of tips on how to get a human being
  46. Firefighters deployed to New Orleans -- to walk beside George Bush
  47. Hairworm: another creepy mind controlling parasite
  48. Molly Ivins has an article archive at working for change
  49. FEMA Disabled: LA Times via DeLong
  50. New Orleans: The Problem of the Weak
  51. Evacuate and abandon the children?
  52. Commie liberals defend Hastert
  53. Blogger is coming apart at the seams -- again
  54. American Shame: Money for empty Alaskan islands, nothing for the levee
  55. Can we buy Bush a subscription to Scientific American?
  56. Practice the controversy
  57. Battle hardened BBC reporters are stunned
  58. William Gates: Destroyer of wealth
  59. New Orleans: did the disaster plans include operating under fire?
  60. Hell to pay: The day after tomorrow
  61. Why so many stayed, and what they saw
  62. Regenerating mice? I don't believe it
  63. Human evolution: fascinating things that won't be taught in Kansas
  64. Poisoned soils of New Orleans 8

August 2005

  1. How a foreign policy wonk gets their themes
  2. The enlightenment is in full retreat in America
  3. The politicization of the american military
  4. Is Econbrowser being converted to Peak Oil?
  5. The speciation of modern man
  6. Teaching the controversy: genetics from 1968
  7. Love explained
  8. Excellent discussion of extended warranties or service contracts
  9. Strategic errors: creating CD DRM schemes that shut out the iPod
  10. Phone company posted rates are completely meaningless
  11. First United Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
  12. Has the social security crisis been averted? Klotho protein for aging
  13. Now that's how to do marketing on the net: NWA promotions via RSS feed
  14. The Paleolithic Renaissance: 35,000 years BCE
  15. Darwin - the great suffer too
  16. Things to tell someone who wants to invest money
  17. The neurospychology of irritable bowel syndrome
  18. Muddled thinking among the Darwinists
  19. CT for lung cancer - remember neonatal retinoblastoma?
  20. Total Information Awareness is not really dead ...
  21. Dumbest lead of the week: critique of hospital performance
  22. Why do we die in our sleep?
  23. Gates funds the Discovery Institute
  24. Annotations of the Discovery Institute's "Wedge Document"
  25. The Discovery Institute's "Wedge Document" -- a wolf in sheep's clothing
  26. The invisible war -- when the peasants die, who notices?
  27. Mac serial number analyzer: see if your Mac is in a recall or exchange program
  28. Tales of the Piraha -- how flexible is man?
  29. Death squads in Baghdad -- over 1100 dead in July?
  30. Fermi Questions: quantitative games of meaning
  31. Junk science: $100 billion wasted on a pointless "missile defense" system
  32. Teaching the controversy - gravitation and the law of unintended consequences
  33. DeLong on the business of oil
  34. Comparative immunology: crocodiles make your immune system look wimpy
  35. The day of the American engineer has passed
  36. Qwest: good employees, awful company
  37. Criminalizing the defective
  38. The intelligent design fight introduces some interesting thoughts
  39. New to Google: very focal searches (single slot value)
  40. Humor at the NSA: your van is ready now
  41. Pharming - there's no dodging this net risk
  42. We too are manipulated by our parasites
  43. Snowball earth
  44. Obsidian Wings doesn't care for Donald Rumsfeld
  45. The Strib on Bush's attack on science - a good, short, editorial
  46. Gordon's Notes: "Tired of hearing about the war?" Satire it was.
  47. Tired of hearing about the war? Change the channel.
  48. Mars is for the elderly
  49. The latest GOP Orwellian ploy: Creationism as "social context"
  50. Is it really legal to transfer music from your CDs to an iPod?
  51. No surprise: Bush wants creationism taught in the schools
  52. Now they shut down the terrorism web sites?!
  53. Truman and Hiroshima and Nagasaki: update to history
  54. The (Apple) mouse that squeaked
  55. The evanescent claustrum of consciousness
  56. Tech obsolescence: CLIE TJ-27 and the missing stylus
  57. The War on Terrorism has been called off
  58. Brin alleges a 'purge' of the US officer corps
  59. Personetics: the morality of cyber deities
  60. Bianchi makes a bike for old folks -- the return of the touring bike
  61. The evolution of medication
  62. MacTel: when everyone says it's not about the digital rights management ... (OS X on Intel)

July 2005

  1. Palm - a fiasco in many acts
  2. Martian ice: the most astounding image yet from the red planet
  3. Amazon.com: Books: Word Annoyances
  4. The disadvantages of being wired by nature: treating androids as human
  5. Brave new world: medical memory erasure - and the societal effects of widespread use of psychoactive medications
  6. The serving army fought Rumsfeld's torture policies
  7. Add Novak to the OJ Hall of "Those who Should Be Shunned"
  8. An unusual healthcare resource: The University of Manitoba's Concept Dictionary
  9. How to collude on pricing without violating antitrust laws -- or at least without prosecution
  10. Use your credit card in Canada? Pay an extra 3% fee.
  11. Washington Post Medicare Expose
  12. Infinite Gmail?
  13. Google Maps - Hybrid Mode
  14. Constructing Your Own Universe
  15. Cosmic Variance: A physics blog?!
  16. Why didn't the bombs blow up?
  17. The Transparent Society lives: surveillance images of bombers
  18. Why don't we know yet why "they" hate us?
  19. How can we get grown-up leaders?
  20. Backing up OS X 10.4 using Retrospect Professional for Windows
  21. The end of all the prayer studies
  22. A new Microsoft?
  23. The Economist: what makes a murderous zealot?
  24. EarthLink� Wireless Service
  25. You are a robot
  26. Terrorism: no more profiling
  27. Stephen Roach: Inflation is outside the control of the Federal Reserve?
  28. Frank Rich: Sure Rove did it, but that's a distraction
  29. Would Rove's defenders also have defended Jonathan Randel?
  30. Coleman: just slimy
  31. SchwarzeneggerL slimy, but not cheap
  32. The programmed man
  33. Terrorism and a failure of imagination: Poisoning Milk
  34. Peak Oil: not in the near future, and then a controlled transition
  35. Cringely jumps the shark? iTunes HD, retinal scans and video iPods?
  36. SARS and pulmonary angiotensin receptors: Nobel prize work?
  37. A Hawk Questions Himself as His Son Goes to War
  38. Iraq and Vietnam: a comparison
  39. IQ is up, IQ/EnvIQ is way, way down
  40. And so it goes -- entering the world of low cost chaos
  41. iTunes Radio: the quiet revolution - better than podcasting?
  42. Advances in Alzheimer research
  43. The London attack: let's hope it needed an outside expert
  44. At last -- the study on how well studies hold up
  45. Progress on "supplements" in Europe -- the slow dawn of rationality
  46. Terrorists have families too: suicide bomber reported missing
  47. Responding to terrorism -- the limits of human nature
  48. How to solve the problem of identity theft and mass credit card fraud
  49. Racism is ubiquitous - the Japanese experience
  50. The Rove/Plame story: why did Time try to silence the memo?
  51. Diabetes and coffee
  52. So why doesn't al Qaeda attack the US directly?
  53. Are there any rational conservatives left? The Evolution Test
  54. How to sell a map and create a retail web site
  55. Thinking about science in America, and the Catholic Church
  56. Another victory for the Discovery Institute: The Catholic church church attacks the enlightenment
  57. What's next in Broadband
  58. The Google Firefox Toolbar: at long last
  59. GMail and spam filtering: Google's engineers are not perfect after all
  60. Circumcision: required for all males now?
  61. Pricing futures contracts and call options: examples from oil futures
  62. Millennium Simulation: Visiting the universe by simulation
  63. Highlights from the 2000 official Texas Republican platform
  64. The word that is not "democracy": it can happen here
  65. Sparta 2008: The Militarization of America
  66. Dyer on Iraq: "This is going to be a long war."
  67. On the unremarked and curious decay of software
  68. Fax and Voicemail to email: MaxEmail and more
  69. The BBC destroys classical music CD sales
  70. Kawasaki Mobile DVD PVS1965: in the new world, electronics gear is mostly disposable
  71. Nonlocality and quantum theory
  72. Are we alone? One of the top 25 questions in the 125th issue of Science
  73. Google Earth - Keyhole for free, and for more machines
  74. Biden on Iraq: A speech to the Brookings Institute

June 2005

  1. Cringely on Web 2.0 -- and Greasemonkey
  2. Dianetics and Scientology: Lessons for the treatment of paranoid schizophrenia?
  3. Blumenthal summarizes the Iraqi situation: 600 years of Sunni rule
  4. Salon takes on Scientology
  5. Google to annihilate PayPal - thank heavens
  6. Brin on hierarchical societies and the Bush agenda
  7. Does Scientology really want all this publicity?
  8. Thinking about Fab
  9. The Philippine Insurrection
  10. Wicked deflation of the Friedman balloon
  11. Bribe inflation: 700K for a house member?!
  12. Shock - Corrupt Bush official resigns
  13. Toxoplasma infection alters personality?!
  14. via Metafilter - the worst tv series ever?
  15. NameVoyager: explore US infant names over the century
  16. We are primates: faces and judgment
  17. It's easy to understand why the Kurds and Shiites won't disband their milias ...
  18. Good news from Sudan
  19. Another step in the march: a synthetic virus combining features of HIV and Ebola
  20. Gordon's Notes: Why the name change?
  21. MacTel: It's a Palladium kind of world
  22. Bloglines top links: what bloggers are linking too
  23. Know the currents - teach your children to ride the rip
  24. Spyware: Hewlett-Packard and the HP 1012
  25. Best analysis on Apple's MacTel switch (OS X on x86, aka OS X86)
  26. No classic on Intel Macs
  27. Computer Quiz: why would moving a PCI card cause attached hard drives to fail?
  28. Newsweek's Baghdad bureau chief: It's bad in Iraq
  29. Will a volunteer army fight the Forever War?
  30. Internal exile: the fate of those who fall
  31. Fixing Consumer Reports: what would I do?
  32. Consumer Reports: the paradox of a consumer organization that hates its customers
  33. Self-replicating device -- another step on the road
  34. Apple has crummy server performance?
  35. Neandertal shall rise again
  36. Revenge of the Bell Curve: selection for IQ in European Jews
  37. Omelettes not in America
  38. One gene, one gender preference
  39. Coalition casualties in Iraq: tally, details and news
  40. iPod battery settlement: $50?
  41. Office 12's promised Open XML file format: I'll chew my hat.
  42. Washing keyboards -- in the dishwasher
  43. Camera vendors of Brooklyn -- home of the "great deal"
  44. Making a threat threatening: six strategies for business

May 2005

  1. Israeli hackers use trojan software to spy on rival companies: Neuromancer lives
  2. The last remaining shards of the media squeak up.
  3. The ultimate iMac accessory: an air conditioner
  4. Smithsonian Museum of Natural History to screen the Discovery Institute's anti-evolution propaganda
  5. Happiness is a selective memory - manipulating memory for good and for profit
  6. Gender imbalance in China: the contribution of Hepatitis B infection
  7. Signs of the end times? Or just new times ...
  8. Search engines I use now
  9. Water boarding and other American recreational activities
  10. Intelligent design: the game of Spore
  11. Security costs money, it's cheaper for banks to pay the crooks.
  12. Race as a collection of genes that travel together
  13. Yahoo Search drops the big one: non-commercial search
  14. Stanford Center for Clinical Informatics: Seminar series
  15. Our first interstellar probe - leaving the solar system
  16. Why did Palm Fail? A Slashdot thread.
  17. The immense power of denial: one handed professional ball players
  18. Action Squad: Minneapolis Urban Adventurers
  19. The treadmill desk -- coming soon to an office near you
  20. The UK approach to patient privacy with electronic health records
  21. National Provider (physician, pharmacist, etc) Identifier assignment system - Not quite ready yet!
  22. Evangelical america
  23. Google Earth vs MSN Earth - the next battle in mass market earth imaging
  24. The Economist's Millenium edition is now available online (five years later)
  25. Identity theft: almost hopeless
  26. Revenge of the Sith -- not so bad, really
  27. 15 answers to creationist nonsense and the outcome of one theocratic sta
  28. We will have national health insurance in america
  29. Derivatives for the small investor
  30. Blog news: Bloglines and Blogger on the mend
  31. Climate Change: The Elizabeth Colbert New Yorker review
  32. The war on Newsweek: Frank Rich strikes back
  33. The media matters: keeping the army slighly less dishonest
  34. The spouses view of a terminal disease
  35. Next from Google: higher resolution satellite images
  36. The inevitable arrives: the Google Portal
  37. It's very important that girls study engineering ...
  38. Interactive Preventive Services Selector Search
  39. Consumers Union: Public Site for telecomm service issues
  40. Dark days for PBS: Bill Moyers' speech to the National Conference for Media Reform
  41. The Propaganda of the Enlightenment
  42. The cost of computer viruses
  43. New resolution: when working on PC check latest backup
  44. The metaverse cometh
  45. Who are at the Iraqi insurgents, and why are they fighting?
  46. A retrospective view of Microsoft's Hailstorm
  47. Bogus science: television and video games improve IQ
  48. The Onion takes on Scientology
  49. The American National Identity Card
  50. Chicago: story of the nation in the nation
  51. The Feynman Letters
  52. Self-replicating robot
  53. Shock - the pre-election color coded alerts were political
  54. David Brin on modernism, majority rule, the implied expectations of Bill Frist, and the role of propaganda
  55. God = Bush. The BushFish
  56. The Beast was Nero, 616 was his number, and Revelations was about Rome
  57. World War II: The Historian's view
  58. The Triumph of the Will: How to believe the earth is cooling down.
  59. Dominionism - a term for the ideology of the violent christian theocracy
  60. The bell curve of evil - Josef Stalin and Joseph Kony
  61. Gamma ray burster - black hole birth?
  62. I'm trying Copernic Desktop Search 1.5 again -- because they claim to index Eudora
  63. The genetics of anxiety: the shortened serotonin transporter gene
  64. Strange mercies - the bomber lives, the child dies
  65. The $10 toy that's a densely entrained neural network
  66. Cyborg nation
  67. 86% of Alabamians want a verbal opening school prayer
  68. The law as a weapon: suing for unpleasant reviews - Maui X-Stream and CherryOS
  69. On Al Qaeda in 2004 and Eckankar in 1979: the believers and the cynics
  70. Grokker - Visualizing search results
  71. Krugman nails the Bush "plan" for social security: future cuts to prevent ... future cuts?!
  72. Worldometers: what's happening now
  73. More Dyer articles posted
  74. Firefox users should disable automatic software installation
  75. When bulimia was routine? JAD Salts, 1920.
  76. From Dave Barry to James Lileks - an eclectic local web site
  77. Vonage -- don't use it quite yet
  78. Nic Wolff's site-specific password generator
  79. Focusing techniques for distractable folk
  80. Germany and the tyranny of the banks - Gunter Grass
  81. Stories from Mosul
  82. AP photo of the dying girl in the arms of Major Bieger
  83. Autism and the Corbett blood chemistry study
  84. Awakenings - all too short
  85. The key moment in Graner mistrial
  86. Tiger and Missing Sync for PalmOS
  87. The evitability of Stalin
  88. The paradoxical gladness of suffering
  89. The battle for Kansas has been lost
  90. Google Web Accelerator for XP and Firefox (ok, for IE too)
  91. Professor Cronin is now famous
  92. Dave Barry is back again?!
  93. The demise of Citgo
  94. You know it's true -- tv experts
  95. The ultimate information tool: National Brand wirebound subject notebooks
  96. You can handle four variables at a time
  97. Your guilt, my guilt
  98. Backpack: a web-based PIM and collaboration tool
  99. Quartz Composer: an OS X Tiger surprise
  100. Spotlight: life without folders
  101. I vote bogus: Ugly Children May Get Parental Short Shrift
  102. Apple's Tiger Slays Microsoft's Grazing Longhorn, Leaving Bloody Entrails Strewn All Over OS Marketplace
  103. Surviving an attack to come -- the local nuke
  104. iMac G5 update: now this is nice
  105. DeLay: the story of a good person corrupted?
  106. GMSV has a blog
  107. Things scientists would teach others about science
  108. Uzbekistan is where Bush sold his soul
  109. Sheep/human hybrids
  110. How is George Bush like Steve Jobs?
  111. Reengineering Islam

April 2005

  1. Savoonga Alaska, a portrait in the Washington Post
  2. Thank you Mr. Hilleman - for saving our children
  3. Obesity increases dementia risk: Winner of stupid medical article of the month
  4. Tiger and parental control software
  5. iLemon?
  6. Neutrino speculations
  7. Open Source Culture: From Flickr to Wikipedia to ... errr ... Faughnan's Notes
  8. Apple's iMac problem -- bad news all around
  9. Building a police state, one day at a time
  10. Identify theft: a summary of recent cases
  11. Great awakenings: Number Four in 2015?
  12. A thoughtful discussion of millenial American fundamentalism
  13. You too have Alzheimer's Process
  14. Orrin Hatch - the arational defender of steroid abuse
  15. Enlightened hedonism: tsunami donation by tourism
  16. The Bush budget's "sunset commission"
  17. Uplifting the dog
  18. An interesting overview of Cyc and an update on the AI agenda
  19. MetaFilter "peak oil" update
  20. How will American "Christians" respond?
  21. Has Bill Gates become a fundamentalist?
  22. The slow advancement of ambulatory medical practice
  23. Planning a family bike outing via Google Maps
  24. Now you can go camping with a digital camera
  25. Hydrogen sulfide gas causes mice to enter a hibernation-like state
  26. Google's search history function - at last
  27. The limitations of lifestyle changes
  28. Fallows on what's cool in tech
  29. The Land of Rand
  30. The reform of Manhattan - how important was abortion?
  31. Bill Frist: Theocrat
  32. The problem with index funds
  33. Introduction to blogs and bloglines
  34. Amazon.com Most Wished For: iPod madness
  35. Tours open now for the virtual world: Google maps and eyeballs
  36. Data Lock: Money cannot convert my Quicken file
  37. A serious use for a Pentium III - Linspire
  38. The National Day of Reason: Thur May 5, 2005
  39. Unitarian Jihad
  40. There really are TWO swiss army knife manufacturers
  41. How to select the right seat on an airplane
  42. The neocon view of Iraq: Hong Kong with oil
  43. Tracing one's deep ancestry: interest for adoptees?
  44. Christian Reconstructionism and the American congress
  45. Bangladeshi heroes in Liberia
  46. Korea - the newest land of tomorrow
  47. Gmail's flaw: crummy spam filtering
  48. The 8 person Alzheimer's study: immunoglobulin
  49. Why humans should not be trusted with dangerous toys
  50. Plenty of Earths, older galaxies -- so where are the little green men?
  51. Minneapolis WiFi: Panic and terror stalks St. Paul
  52. How the mighty have fallen -- USA 2005, Japan 1945
  53. How does one survive the death of two children?
  54. Extinctions every 62 million years
  55. BBC survey of Iraqi attitudes: quite positive
  56. Millenialism and the pursuit of profit
  57. Exploring British Columbia by google's new satellite imagery maps
  58. No Black Holes? Say it ain't so Joe.
  59. Yahweh vs. Ganesha in the American Supreme Court
  60. A silent liberal majority in America? The BBC's Justin Webb thinks so ..
  61. Google Ride Finder - I thought this was an April Fool's joke
  62. American Torturing Jobs Increasingly Outsourced
  63. How social security solvency problems will be addressed - through immigration law changes
  64. Gmail goes to 2GB -- take that Yahoo!
  65. Is DeLay getting nervous?

March 2005

  1. Political Animal spots the Heritage Foundation's Creationist Event
  2. You are (probably) very, very rich.
  3. Does chronic fatigue syndrome involve a neuropsychiatric failure of the placebo mechanism?
  4. Hyperlipidemia and IQ
  5. Be best you can be five siblings with
  6. Last gasp of the Republican Rationalists
  7. Another reluctant guardian of the enlightenment -- and of a reality-based community
  8. Strong force black holes spit pions amidst a primordial quark-gluon liquid
  9. Lessons in technology: PDAs and the national health information infrastructure
  10. Adaptive systems -- disabling the EPA hasn't been completely effective
  11. Revenge upon Green Bay: Minnesota educational rankings
  12. The NYT Magazine profiles Republican Exurbia -- through a megachurch
  13. Remember Homeland Security? The EAPA can't handle prevention.
  14. The age of the net -- do we understand what we're riding?
  15. Redefining science: the Justice Department's 'religious rights' unit
  16. Madness of the Great WAr
  17. Creepy logo award: Social Explorer
  18. The Puzzle of social cooperation in the East African Plains Ape
  19. Scientific American to include alternative perspectives
  20. Fear, aggression and social intelligence
  21. Why so much attention to a family tragedy?
  22. Is lossy compressed music "better" than 'real' music?
  23. Hope for Blogger?
  24. Orcinus on hate groups, racial purity, and the role of the 'people like us'
  25. The harshness of mortal life - hidden refugees from North Korea
  26. Blowback - the sour fruits of an unwanted victory
  27. Why Wolfowitz?
  28. Wasted money: school smoking education programs. So what about drugs?
  29. Mendel's head is spinning
  30. Technology bites
  31. Theocracy has its bright side -- the catholic church moves on to the death penalty
  32. Digital Rights Management and iTunes: why we should fund Chinese hackers
  33. Ends and means
  34. How To Complain about your Wireless Service = especially SprintPCS
  35. Dyer has 8 more articles on his public site
  36. You too can be a Guardian!
  37. The Halifax Explosion -- how transient is history
  38. Defending the enlightenment: Darwin stickers
  39. Rep Barney sums up the Schiavo debacle
  40. Google books are online: The Origin of the Species
  41. Calendars, leap years and when spring starts
  42. Two years of war - visiting the graveyard
  43. Propaganda works in America
  44. Undoing the enlightenment: the attack on the science musuems
  45. Congress in desperate battle to avoid anything important
  46. National Do Not Call Registry
  47. The Argentinian solution
  48. Intuit (Quicken): We don't just hate our customers. We make them scream.
  49. How to buy a flash memory "MP3" player (but not the Shuffle!)
  50. How to decrease your junk mail burden
  51. Digital Rights Management: letting the snake in the door
  52. Is Bill Gates a creationist?
  53. Tsunami and the Nicobar islanders
  54. On human extinctions
  55. The ten commandments case brings Scalia out of the closet
  56. Undoing the Enlightenment: Divide First, Conquer Second
  57. On spam, marketing, noise, search, reputation management and the evolution of the blog
  58. No Child Left Behind advocates teaching creationism?
  59. Race as a collection of genes that travel together
  60. China will pay - the bennies of empire
  61. An intelligent discussion of the Italian hostage (Sgrena) shooting
  62. David Brin has a blog
  63. PLATO Notes, Microsoft Groove, and the curious history of software
  64. What's worse than no privacy? Lies.
  65. Why going open source is not a trivial thing
  66. The Lefkow murders, mental illness, and jumping to conclusions
  67. GOP theology: a return to basics
  68. Faughnan's Notes needs a new home - Blogger doom
  69. Patrick Leahy and privacy
  70. Remember Argentina: The US trade gap and the charity of strangers
  71. Phil Bradley's posts on search and net services: March 7-11
  72. Blogger outage
  73. The disadvantage of "free": no threats!
  74. Plagiocephaly and the law of unintended consequences
  75. Prodigies and their futures
  76. UK: National programme for IT
  77. Upgrading mice
  78. Medicaid: it's the Alzheimer's and the strokes
  79. How to write a paper in one draft
  80. Alzheimer's "disease": the decline of denial and the redefinition of "normal"
  81. Buffett and the share cropper society
  82. Should a government insure citizens against bad outcomes?
  83. MetaFilter profiles infamous London Underground Map(s)
  84. Explore Minnesota: Firefighters Hall & Museum
  85. Freedom - you were nice to know - part XVI
  86. Is Greenspan demented?
  87. Excellent commentary on the mad adventures of a 3 engined British Airways flight
  88. The universe as an infinite pile of overlapping grapefruits
  89. Detective Duane does impressive work
  90. 58877241. Never forget.
  91. Influenza is picking up late this year
  92. Creating a reliable system out of unreliable components: Google and massive redundancy
  93. World Bank executives vanish from offices, mobs ransack empty buildings
  94. Environmentally induced ADD: Medicine in the Harvard Business Review
  95. Spam of the month: FBI needs answers!
  96. Podcasting: iPodder.org
  97. Death of the PDA, take III
  98. Another free business idea: dynamic biometrics with a digital video peripheral
  99. Buying a cell phone - another market failure?
  100. Supreme Court bans juvenile executions -- Martian invasion completed
  101. And now the Draft
  102. New York, New York - A Survey by the Economist
  103. NewsScan passes on

February 2005

  1. DeLong: Why Social Security Deals Are Not a Good Idea
  2. Journalism yet lives: The NYT exposes negligent care of prisoners
  3. An inside view of Google
  4. Gmail - Inbox (47) - of which 2/3 are spam
  5. Spam from SONY: thank you congress
  6. NYT discovers Africa and is intensely confused
  7. That which remains: Ken Kifer's bike pages
  8. Hope -- the american talent for subversion
  9. Monbiot summarizes the 'Left Behind' series
  10. Bill Moyers all but despairs of our leadership, and our citizens
  11. HyperCard: My past is ancient history ...
  12. So what happened in Fallujah?
  13. Suffer the children
  14. The baby name voyager and the science of epidemics
  15. ChoicePoint owns you
  16. American torture: the case of Maher Arar
  17. The IQs of nations
  18. ALS and Soccer
  19. Bloglines is having trouble ...
  20. The rise of pseudo-fascism -- winner of the 2004 Koufax Award for best series
  21. Paris Hilton may not be brilliant, but T-Mobile is a moron
  22. The skies, the skies ...
  23. Alzheimers, inflammation and the endocannabinoids
  24. DMCA abuse -- the courts refuse to roll over
  25. A test of political mores: fun on the web
  26. Jon Stewart is completely hilarious -- the Gannon show
  27. Obituary for a Grammarian
  28. Friends don't let friends buy HP
  29. More things I did wrong in my practice
  30. Child atheletes in America - a bit crazy
  31. How I use Gmail and why it really is so great
  32. Udell on screencasting
  33. Google's one page guide to becoming a Google Guru
  34. The tedious response to having one's identity stolen
  35. Ajax: thickening a web client
  36. Right wing fruitcake's "most unwanted" page
  37. Dedication: Free Mojtaba and Arash Day
  38. Taller babies and confusing correlation with causation
  39. Grand Old Payola Party
  40. The top 100 gadgets of all time
  41. Planet sorrow
  42. Bush the deity
  43. Privacy? Surely you jest. A web site for those who would resist.
  44. How to steal identies: method #5
  45. Aging drivers: a vast growth industry
  46. Goebbels is topical
  47. So what do we know about depression anyway?
  48. Gwynne Dyer's site has 8 new articles
  49. Free business ideas: outsourcing claims processing for patients AND a web site for business idea distribution and related services
  50. Aggregate databases: what my shadow medical profile will look like
  51. Godel, Newton, Pauling: betrayed by intuition?
  52. The Tsunami: Things disappear.
  53. A truly useful cameraphone: document managing
  54. An early shot in the human vs. hybrid wars
  55. Abused nations and abused children
  56. Iraq: worse than you think?
  57. Each household borrows $3000 a year to run America
  58. Arranged marriages for the wealthy unmarried
  59. Dean as National Democratic Committee Chairman
  60. Rural suicide - anything to do about it?
  61. Who will defend freedom? It's not illegal to take pictures of subways.
  62. Passphrases? Nice try.
  63. Firefox is 20% of bloglines access; The Firefox Center
  64. The stupidity of the Secret Question and the death of passwords
  65. CIA rebels not done yet
  66. Trash company, earn $42 million
  67. Microsoft rot?
  68. Advanced warning of 9/11 -- by about 25 years
  69. How fast could YOU spend 25 billion dollars?
  70. The national identification card and database
  71. Google's vector maps and Safari
  72. Potemkin Comments are real now
  73. Kim Il Sung - burning books and documents
  74. The forgotten 1960s
  75. Fidonet lives?!
  76. Where can Bush find a secretary of the treasury? Slate and Salon have an answer.
  77. The power of the netMind: Outing another GOP fake
  78. Faughnan's Notes: Potemkin Comments
  79. Search, desktop documents, Gmail, iPhoto and iTunes
  80. The Medlogs.com Aggregator and my readership
  81. Something to remember in Saint Paul
  82. David Sheff writes of his son's addiction to methamphetamines
  83. The Onion predicts the future of Google - offsite backup
  84. The power of identifiers and the end of privacy
  85. The Darwinian Interlude: A digression by Freeman Dyson
  86. The literature of the fantastic - out of the dark ages
  87. The power of open source and collaboration: spam from hell
  88. Did you think you understood Abu Ghraib? Another part of the story.
  89. Fame of a peculiar sort for an amateur reviewer
  90. Sleeping on the plane: an iTunes playlist?
  91. Why no company will again make devices to fit into the front pockets of americans
  92. Why our 75 year social security projections are worse than worthless
  93. Why I'm beginning to root for the video pirates
  94. Ghosts of the Golden Age: the computer as an aid to thinking
  95. Inline skates for a 2 yo -- not so easy to find!
  96. Good news from an unusual source and a soldier's noteworthy comments
  97. What Is Conservatism and What Is Wrong with It?
  98. Search: MSN vs. Yahoo vs. Google
  99. America - Darwin's nemesis

January 2005

  1. Boycott CRC Information Holdings
  2. Adopted doesn't count?
  3. Glacier Good-bye
  4. Problem of the weak: faces of meth
  5. Markets as moral entitites?
  6. Dying, not defeated
  7. Time for the US to pass the baton ...
  8. Stories of my father: umbrella combat
  9. Bush is good for journalism: even Maureen Dowd can write now
  10. A9.com local search -- take that Google!
  11. Does an earthlike planet require a neighboring supernova?
  12. Outsourcing to Africa
  13. Aztecs: how nasty can humans be?
  14. Safire's tips on reading Safire
  15. The unsung heroes in the Dover School district: Defending Science
  16. The Rise and Fall of the Body-Scanning Clinics
  17. Twixters: marooned in the twenties
  18. Hong Kong -- views of another galaxy
  19. A blog at least partially made up of Iraqi (english) voices
  20. Evolutionary game theory: people are strategies in a "game" played by natural selection
  21. Is it childish to call David Brooks "Bobo"?
  22. Where commercial copy protection will lead
  23. Kaplan rips the inaugural address
  24. Fox flips out
  25. The world called Titan
  26. Did the KGB blow up those Russian apartment buildings?
  27. Social security: fundamentals of privatization
  28. Coronation Day reading
  29. Search Bot wars: How Yahoo can attack Google's Blogger products
  30. The Yazidi/Dasin of Iraq
  31. Dyer on an African "Marshall Plan"
  32. It's over. We lost. Thanks George.
  33. Managing complexity: the lifelong data repository
  34. What Fates Impose: The 2004 annual lecture to the British Academy
  35. Another big thing the media missed
  36. Google oddities: my "top ranked" page
  37. At last, the obvious begins to be discussed. It's the technology stupid.
  38. John Kerry's petition: replace Rumsfeld
  39. King George
  40. How you know you're middle-aged
  41. Seymour Hersh: The Next Wars
  42. AuthenticGOP.com
  43. The Darwinian Society
  44. NYT Magazine has an in depth review of social security
  45. My home town paper shows some spine ... callling a lie a lie
  46. A just sentence for Graner -- but an unjust world
  47. Confusion about medical errors, sigh
  48. Yahoo squashes Google -- again
  49. Why don't the creationists chase after the Fermi Paradox?
  50. Preventing child abduction
  51. Darkness in America. Who cares?
  52. Venezuala is the future
  53. A contrarian view of dog training
  54. Who will save American journalism?
  55. The National Intelligence Council predicts the future
  56. Huygens has landed
  57. Apple revenues: the missed story
  58. Social Security assault: It's ideology, not demography and not economics
  59. Be the Best You can Be: Pawlenty vs the american dream
  60. Friedman's seven rules of mideast politics
  61. Titanic Friday
  62. Least competent defense attorney
  63. Global warming -- Now you can panic
  64. Protection rackets hit gambling sites
  65. HubMed: Syndicating PubMed Search results
  66. Dave Barry defines a sense of humor
  67. How dangerous are cell phones?
  68. Predictions from 1961: looking to 2000
  69. What the heck is Bush saying here?
  70. spare the death squad, spoil the liberation. Giblet speaks
  71. The incurable disorder: Obesity
  72. The anti-science (anti-Darwin) forces will win
  73. Boycott God
  74. Tale of a multilevel marketing scam: "Work at Home" with herbalife
  75. The big event of 2005: nanotech solar energy conversion?
  76. The dismal state of consumer electronics: the curse of being market driven
  77. ConsumerReports.org: $26 per year, or $18 if you cancel first ...
  78. On human language
  79. Forgotten History: Haiti and the Mau-Mau rebellion
  80. Brzezinski on what it would take to "win" in Iraq
  81. 21st century disaster response: handy to have an aircraft carrier ...
  82. The Kennedy Curse? Perhaps not all curses are mythical.
  83. What do Social Security "Reform", the Iraq War, IOKIFYAR, Rumsfeld, Plato, Strauss and Nietzsche have in common?
  84. A clever summary of the classic republican perspectives on the poor
  85. How to get great press for free and fake out government: Intel/eBay "Rethink"
  86. In Gore-world, we save 100,000 from a tsunami
  87. IOKIYAR means a "Higher Morality": Four years of a bad novel
  88. The risks of joining religious fervor to revolutionary politics: lessons from the Weimar Republic
  89. Jared Diamond and the Rwandan Malthusian crisis
  90. DeLong's social security talking points
  91. On second thought, let's not replace Rumsfeld
  92. More answers to the "believe but cannot prove" question...
  93. The evolution of the immune system
  94. America the not-so generous?
  95. Passive smoking and school performance -- causation or correlation?
  96. Edge asks scientists a great question: what do you believe but cannot prove?
  97. Salon's 'Ask the Pilot' puts a knife in the Laser Beam Terrorists
  98. Center for Personalized Education for Physicians
  99. Orwell uber alles
  100. Tsunami Victims: VISA/MC waive transaction fees?
  101. Krugman returns: the privatization of social security
  102. American Chechnya -- the Economist's perspective
  103. Y2K: give thanks to the Geeks who saved your butt
  104. So why is it credit card companies tolerate so much fraud?
  105. A series of amateur photos of the incoming tsunami
  106. Most misleading news coverage: a nominee
  107. The stagnant information architecture of the web: ten years of stasis
  108. Disasters: World Vision's list of myths
  109. Audio-Digest Foundation: Moving the media world from CD to iPod
  110. The demise of Wikipedia
  111. Outsourcing and quality control: the Apple experience
  112. Bush rule: The Revenge of Andrew Jackson
  113. Stratosphere on Everest -- more
  114. Everest in the Stratosphere?
  115. One story among many - the Sambodhi shelter
  116. Voting in the USA: it's much worse than you think

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