Archive for December, 2001

gift culture

Wednesday, December 19th, 2001

Gift Culture - OK, there is still time to vote for Doc. He deserves it; his willingness to rationally reconsider a blogger’s sacred topic like incestuous Google links is reason enough. But what is it with this need to associate everything with a “gift culture”? “Gift Culture” isn’t really my experience of […]

epoch

Tuesday, December 18th, 2001

Epoch - You can bid on a copy of Windows XP signed by Bill Gates. The cool thing is, I scooped Robert Scoble on this one.

Now here’s a real scoop: “Microsoft Dumps Passport for Liberty Alliance, Sun Adopts Passport”. This article is just about as fact-based as any other I’ve seen on the […]

feelings bandit

Sunday, December 16th, 2001

Feelings Bandit - This is unbelievable: Bob Knight rips on the size of the locker rooms and forgets to make a teary-eyed reference to the charity benefits of the game, and now the arena manager has his feelings all hurt. A basketball coach getting confrontational? Oh my!

who dat is?

Thursday, December 13th, 2001

Who dat is? - So now bidders for AT&T Broadband are getting cold feet. The article mentions issues of debt, but what about the 800,000+ customers that AT&T just screwed? After the Excite@Home fiasco, AT&T is selling a totally different company than they were offering before.

CNET is opining about how Compaq might have […]

personality

Sunday, December 9th, 2001

Personality - My brother pointed out a recent study attempting to relate IQ to various personality characteristics. The Kiersey/MBTI scales have turned out to be a very popular and effective way to stereotype people, while IQ is definitely not a socially acceptable way to stereotype. Now you have some research that lets you […]