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Archive for January, 2007

Yahoo Inlinks Badge = The New Page Rank?

I was checking the number of pages a couple of my websites have in the Yahoo Index (specifically I was checking Early Miser, price compare everywhere when I noticed a brand noticed a brand new feature on the Yahoo Search Site Explorer on the right hand side labled Badge.

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Terrorists Using World of Warcaft

On of the things that always struck me about the current datamining models the Administration is using that they miss completely obvious lines of communication. For example in order to make MMORPG’s secure and prevent people from using third party tools improve their game performance, most companies have securely encrypted almost all communications to prevent packet sniffing.

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Season Premiere

I missed last week’s season premiere of Battlestar Galactica. Luckily for me SciFi will stream the episode to me at Battlestar Galactica streamed from Scifi. Some thoughts on the show.

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Metapedia.se Metapedia.org

Ok here’s an update on the Metapedia project. From Gunther one of the project members,

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Not a small guy

I am not a small guy. In fact while I am not fat, I am pretty big. I played football one year as a lineman in Division III so I am still pretty big. Another problem I have is that I like loose clothing.

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Don’t rely on Osama’s advice for security

One of the central tropes that people still supporting the President’s aproach on the war on terror is that Iraq is the “central front on terror”. While it might be the central front, one argument supporting that idea is a silly and very dangerous one. To “prove” it’s the central front on terror many of the supporters then begin quoting Osama bin Laden or other Al Qaeda leaders who “claim it’s the front in the war on the United States”. Many of these pundits than say “see even Al Qaeda agrees it’s the central front.”

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Senator Mushmouth isn’t running in 2008

According to the Boston Globe, Senator Mushmouth, the junior senator from Massachusetts has declined to run in the next presidential race . He was quoted as saying, “Ibay beliba tha peopla don’ta unterstant me.”

Another project Thalasar supports

As sometimes happens I am approached a domain I own. Typically people want one of my domains since I am “not doing anything” with it and then offer me $10 for the domain. For 99.99% of these requests I simply ignore the individual in question.

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Political Forums

One of the problems with political blogs is that they only seems to attract like minded people to the site. Thus Daily Kos and the Free Republic draw rapid true believers which shout down any opposition to existing idealogy. As a result these forums tend to reinforce existing ideas and biases.

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Bill Buckley vs Noam Chomsky

This one is bigger than Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla. Over at Andrew Sullivan’s blog he links to a youtube of Bill Buckley and Noam Chomsky debating in 1969.

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