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Shirky: Ontology is Overrated — Categories, Links, and Tags
I’ve never had the time to figure out del.ico.us; maybe I will this summer.
In the meantime, this is a very thoughtful discussion of categorization and when different schemes do and do not work.

Google Print Search: “kevin miller
Google print has been improved. Naturally, I did a search on my name and came across some books I didn’t know about that cited me, and others that cited other people with my name (you do have to worry when your name shows up in a book title “Plagiarism, Copyright Violation [...]

CNN.com - Tech will cause a real estate crash - May 16, 2005
Entertainment and culture A 60-inch high-definition TV with
5.1 channel surround sound can’t beat a live performance, but advances
in technology makes it much closer to the real thing than traditional
television. Your home theater will get any broadcast or performance in
the world via the [...]

Bit by bit, I’m moving into the new office that goes along with my new administrative resonsibilities. Today there was a sudden, brief, intense rainstorm capture in this picture out of my window. As it happened, I’d just finished putting up the scroll that Cao Xiuhong, my former Chinese teacher had brought with her when she came from Beijing, produced by a 12-year-old student of hers. The text is the title of this post, which is appropriate to the picture.

Note Studio
In your life and your organisation, there is so much information to keep on top of. Note Studio allows you to create notebooks for this task. Pages in these notebooks can be linked together, just like web pages on the internet.
I’ve been experimenting with different pieces of software to help organize and keep track [...]

Dispatch From Bolivia - Will the leftist group that formed to fight U.S. anti-drug efforts bring down the government? By Ryan Grim
Yet another reason I’m happy that Alice is coming home this weekend!

Main Page - Wikimedia Commons
The Wikimedia Commons is a project that provides a central repository for free images, music, sound
I never heard of this and already they have 100,000 files.

Today I sent back the proofs of a manuscript and had to sign a copyright transfer form. In the past, I’d print it out, sign it, scan it and turn it back into a pdf file. Because I’m moving offices, this was inconvenient, and it turns out that there’s an easy way to do this. [...]

This is a place in the Dashanzi area of Beijing that I’ve always wanted to see (East Germany meets Bauhaus meets Beijing meets Modern Art). Presumably hilarity ensues.

The Search for 100 Million Missing Women - An economics detective story. By Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt
This is an interesting and well-written article, but it manages to conflate doing regression on large data sets with economics, even though those methods were neither developed by nor are limited to economists. It also manages [...]