Denialism

Category: Wasting your time

  • TRUST Seminar: Need Credit? No Identity? No Problem!

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    I’m doing the TRUST Seminar at Berkeley this week. Here’s the info and abstract. Date: Thursday, October 18, 2007 Time: 1:00 PM (lunch will be served) Location: 540 A/B Cory Hall ABSTRACT: In synthetic identity theft cases, an impostor creates a new identity using some information from a victim that is enhanced with fabricated personal…

  • Uri Geller makes a comeback!

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    Watching 30 Rock and the Office tonight I kept on seeing this commercial for a new show called “Phenomenon”. The story goes: The search for the impossible begins…there are those who claim special powers, but only one can be called the greatest. Now, the mind of Uri Geller, and the mastery of Chris Angel will…

  • Can You Believe They Posed for This?

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    We should have a LOL caption contest for this.

  • WSJ: Wal-Mart Era Wanes

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    Maybe Americans’ bad taste can be reformed! Gary McWilliams reports: The Wal-Mart Era, the retailer’s time of overwhelming business and social influence in America, is drawing to a close. […] Rival retailers lured Americans away from Wal-Mart’s low-price promise by offering greater convenience, more selection, higher quality, or better service. Amid the country’s growing affluence,…

  • Wiley Miller on think tanks

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    I’m loving the Non Sequiturs about Danae setting up her think tank. I think Wiley must be reading the blog. Stop lurking and show yourself!

  • Only 250 Comments Away

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    I’d just comment like nuts if I were eligible for the 500,000th comment contest. Call this an open thread. Go nuts! I’m too busy writing to blog anyway.

  • WSJ on Billboard Advertising Battles

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    The Journal’s Cynthia Crossen gives an overview of political battles surrounding billboard advertising today. An interesting read, in part because billboard advertising lobbyists have been pretty shameless in their political advocacy. I remember that when I lived in Georgia, they wanted to lop off the tops of trees so that billboards could be better seen.…

  • The Joys of the Wall Street Journal, Weekend Edition

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    Ah, the joys of reading the relatively new weekend edition of the Journal…There’s always news you can really use. For instance, if you happen to be in Atlanta and are hungry, the Journal will tell you exactly where you should sitting at Rathbun’s, depending on whether you are an A, an A+, or A++. Floorplan…

  • Internet Roundup

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    Here’s what I’m reading this morning. An Orangutan stole a womans pants in Malaysia. That’s got to be embarrassing, but at the very least, you’d have a story to tell people for the rest of your life that is sure to entertain. Congress, having solved all other problems is looking into the language of hip-hop.…

  • The Right to Trial…By Elves

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    The Journal’s James Hookway informs us that a trial court judge in Manila, Judge Floro, has an interesting set of consultants: three elves, only visible to the judge himself! Belief in this trio has caused the country’s supreme court to intervene and fire the judge. …Mr. Floro, 54 years old, has become a media celebrity.…