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I’ve never heard of Alex Reisner before today. My gratitude to Adam Kalsey for the link. I just now realized that Reisner’s post is from March of 2006, almost 2 years ago. But this is timeless, not timely.
What a marvelous, brief examination of history and its forces: Baseball Geography and Transportation. Effectively annotated with dated [...]

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Fascinating 22 minute video of statistician Peter Donnelly at TED explaining the impact of our general inability to interpret uncertainty. Logic doesn’t work here. I got his first example wrong, as he says most do. What about you?

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I’d like a clean inbox to start next week, so it’s time to pull out the tidbits which raised themselves up above the del.icio.us level of interest, and into the “I should check this out” tier. Of course, I really haven’t given these much attention, but if I put them up here, at least my [...]

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At work today, Mac OS X Address Book just blanked at some point. Hundreds of contacts gone. The Treo still had the information, so I carefully checked Missing Sync (which I use to sync the Treo) and made sure it was set to Synchronize, not Overwrite Handheld. Mistake… there was no setting for Handheld overwrite [...]

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Tim Bray resurrects a presentation he gave in May, 1996 entitled “Measuring the Web.”
A worthy part of history, and now it will be preserved in various caches for… well, a long time. Some of the sites named are long gone, and no longer well known. Infoseek, for example, where I interviewed in December, 1996, when [...]

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I’ve had too nice a day overall to spend too much time teasing out something truly new on the topics of where data lives, which data is your data, what formats are most future-proof, and which companies may or may not have found a path for data and formats which both serves people best and [...]

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