October 08, 2003
I've been banking too much. At work, when we get super cynical about our jobs, we like to use "bank" as a verb. Like, "Yeah, man, I can tell you're fired up to bank today." Or perhaps, "Oh hell yeah, let's bank." The frequently used and lamest of the lame is the almost obscene, "Get your bank on."
Anyway, I feel like an absentee father. If it weren't for all you badasses keeping on top of this stuff, UKAZU would be a sad little latchkey kid. I dug up all kinds of stuff tonight. I just drowned in the words. It was awesome.
- My buddy Mike launched a site. Pencil, ink, and notebook paper all up on the web. It looks sharp.
- The book about the math dorks who jacked Vegas for hundreds of thousands of dollars at a time by running teams on the blackjack tables is finally out. I so want to read it.
- "The question is, why do teenage boys look like monkeys?" Huh?
- In the past couple of years the government has become pretty aggressive in encroaching on civil liberties. As a response to the government's surveillance of its citizens, one of its citizens has created a site that runs distributed surveillance on the government. Check out OpenGov.us.
- Ray Kurzweil is a very interesting guy. Unless I misunderstand, he basically studies the future. His recent article in CIO magazine discusses the inherent and unavoidable conflict between the costs and benefits of technological advance. Thesis: we must accept some new and different losses to achieve widespread beneftis.
- PowerPoint still sucks. This time the NYT says so.
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