I got this idea reading <a href="http://www.kryogenix.org/days/553.html" title="The tyranny of tabbed browsing - as days pass by">another blog</a>, but thought it was interesting enough to try myself. Here are the tabs I have pending, right now:
- Apple – iTunes – Smart Playlists
- A page listing some creative things to do with Smart Playlists in iTunes.
- Fool.com: Apple [Post of the Day] October 17, 2003
- A selected post from the Motley Fool message board from a guy who makes a plausible case for the Windows iPod/iTunes/iTMS being a Trojan horse.
- Plastic: 100 Books To Read Before You Die
- The discussion at Plastic about the Guardian Observer’s list of the 100 Greatest Novels of All Time.
- Wired News: ITunes, Now for the Rest of Us
- Wired’s coverage of the release of iTunes for Windows.
- Plastic: But Mom, The Teacher Sucked Out My Brain!
- A Plastic discussion about a Dallas Observer article that posits that some public education facilities may actually make kids dumber.
- BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Purple frog delights scientists
- A BBC story about… a purple frog.
- BBC NEWS | Technology | Odd mishaps cause computer grief
- The BBC’s top ten computer disasters.
- Q&A: Choosing a Digital Music Service for Windows Users
- Microsoft FUD about Apple’s iTunes Music Store for Windows.
- RadTech | Products | Ice Creme
- A company that makes a product specifically for removing the scratches from your iPod.
- the typewriter-keyboard conversion
- A guy explains how to convert a typewriter into a computer keyboard.
- RSS Readers: Bringing the World to Your Desktop
- A review of six RSS readers for Windows.
- Question for Free-Market Libertarians (Aaron Swartz: The Weblog)
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An interesting point about some people’s contradictory opinions.
Take two people, the homeless man pushing a cart in San Francisco, and the rich corporate mogul flying around the world in his jet. Now, arguendo, let’s grant the premise that the homeless man is homeless because he’s a worthless grunt who doesn’t contribute to society, and the rich man is rich because the market has determined he’s worthwhile. The homeless man shouldn’t get money from the state, because that would make him dependent and even less likely to seek out work. But what about their children? Rich man’s son will live in luxury his entire [life] without working a day. It’s pushing it to say that this was OK for his father, but can you truly say it’s fair because the market is rewarding him for choosing excellent parents?
I would think that libertarians would want a 100% inheritance tax, so everyone got a (more) equal start. But as far as I can tell, they don’t. Can anyone explain why?
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All Published Appellate Opinions From State Available Free on Court’s
Web Site - An article from the Metropolitan News-Enterprise announcing that all of the appellate opinions published in California since it became a state in 1850 are now available online without charge at the state courts’ website.
- Zipf’s Law, Benford’s Law
- An article about some unexpected properties of numbers.