Entries from August 2004

Tuesday, August 31st, 2004

Distributed Library: The top five books or movies you most want to see?

I'm going to enter my books into the Distributed Library Project, but I have a lot of books, so I'd like to enter in those that people want most. What are the top five books or movies you want to read/see?

Tuesday, August 31st, 2004

Tool Lending Libraries

Via Kevin Kelly's always enlightening Cool Tools: A decade ago some community librarians in California initiated a great idea: why not lend tools as well as books? The idea slowly spread to a couple of dozen other US towns, but the most active and well-stocked tool libraries are still in the Bay Area — one [...]

Tuesday, August 31st, 2004

Distributed Library Project

A very nifty idea. There are nodes for other areas, that will eventually be connected together. http://triangle.communitybooks.org/ What is the DLP? The Distributed Library Project is an experiment in sharing information and building community in the Triangle Area. Unfortunately, the traditional library system doesn't do much to foster community. Patrons come and go, but there [...]

Monday, August 30th, 2004

"I am vengeance."

Give your kids a birthday party they will never forget. 'Vengeance' swipes cake, eats it, too August 30, 2004 A 6-foot-tall, 275-pound bearded man crashed a children's birthday party in Oak Forest, identified himself as “vengeance,” then helped himself to a piece of cake, police said. The incident occurred earlier this month at a home [...]

Sunday, August 29th, 2004

Celebrity druggies?

My friend Jon pointed out that part of the reason that celebrities seem to have drug or alcohol problems more than most is that lot's of people want to sleep with them. And one way to get somebody to sleep with you is to get them stoned or drunk. So celebrities are offered drugs and [...]

Sunday, August 29th, 2004

Keillor and Lincoln

Via : Garrison Keillor writes in (We’re Not in Lake Wobegon Anymore): How did the Party of Lincoln and Liberty transmogrify into the party of Newt Gingrich’s evil spawn and their Etch-A-Sketch president, a dull and rigid man, whose philosophy is a jumble of badly sutured body parts trying to walk? … The concentration of [...]

Sunday, August 29th, 2004

The Fat and the Poor

http://techcentralstation.com/082704D.html “…A few years ago, Stephen F. Venti and David Wise examined the relationship between income and wealth for people nearing retirement age. If everyone had approximately the same savings behavior, then you would expect that most of the variation in wealth would be due to variation in lifetime income. High earners would have accumulated [...]

Friday, August 27th, 2004

100 Years of Medical Robbery

http://www.mises.org/fullstory.aspx?control=1547&id=71 100 Years of Medical Robbery by Dale Steinreich Our mentor has always been Hippocrates, not Adam Smith –President of a County Medical Society at an AMA meeting quoted in the February 16, 1981 issue of the New York Times. This weekend (June 11-13, 2004), the American Medical Association (AMA) will celebrate the 100th anniversary [...]

Friday, August 27th, 2004

Futurama on my dating life:

fry: can't we just be together? leela: listen – you are a man, I'm a woman. We're just too different.

Friday, August 27th, 2004

[Raleigh] Adult Dodgeball tomorrow!

Dodgeball was a blast last week. I'm going to go again tomorrow. You can still register if you want to join!. Just a reminder that the second of ColtSport's Adult Dodgeball Association “Test Days” will be held this Saturday, starting at 11 a.m.  Our first round of testing has resulted in a few changes, such as: [...]