Wow! This looks neat. AlterSlash: the unofficial SlashDot digest.
From a reader: "I know you've probably already heard the story, but the reason there is still a Winerlog is because of Dave's user agreement and his vision for ETP. It was part of his "let a thousand weblogs bloom" theme, freedom for everybody to stand on their own soapbox and speak their mind. He then tried to shut it down, and was roundly drubbed for his Janus-faced tactics." Thanks for the info. I had no idea it had come up before, though it would asinine of me to think that I had an original rant/anti-rant against Dave.
Behavior of real ants: "It is well-known that the main means used by ants to form and maintain the line is a pheromone trail. Ants deposit a certain amount of pheromone while walking, and each ant probabilistically prefers to follow a direction rich in pheromone rather than a poorer one. This elementary behavior of real ants can be used to explain how they can find the shortest path which reconnects a broken line after the sudden appearance of an unexpected obstacle has interrupted the initial path."
Lance Knobel: "Commonplace books arose in the renaissance as a means for learned men to record quotations or observations that seemed important to them."
Hi Gordon. Unfortunately, I don't live in Winnemucca, yet. I live in Central California and am dying to move.
A lame attempt to explore the psychology of weblogs: "Most weblogs are drivel, banal shit..."
Jorn has built a neat page for comparing Bible translations.
You're at a party and see a fabulous girl/guy. They walk up to you and say, "I hear you're fantastic in bed." That's Brand Recognition.
It seems that .info and .biz websites don't show a pagerank in the Google toolbar. Can any find an example where this is not true?