Ramblings & ephemera
From Allen Abel and Madeleine Czigler’s “Boys, despair and aristocrats” (National Post: 24 June 2008):
Blue clothing for girls and pink for boys — and not the reverse — was the custom in North America for much of the 20th century. “The reason,” according to the Ladies Home Journal in 1918, “is that pink being a [...]
Posted on November 27th, 2008 by Scott Granneman
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From Bruce Schneier’s “Anonymity and the Netflix Dataset” (Crypto-Gram: 15 January 2008):
The point of the research was to demonstrate how little information is required to de-anonymize information in the Netflix dataset.
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What the University of Texas researchers demonstrate is that this process isn’t hard, and doesn’t require a lot of data. It turns out that [...]
Posted on November 21st, 2008 by Scott Granneman
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From Jo Freeman’s “The Tyranny of Structurelessness” (1970):
During the years in which the women’s liberation movement has been taking shape, a great emphasis has been placed on what are called leaderless, structureless groups as the main form of the movement. …
The idea of ’structurelessness’, however, has moved from a healthy counter to these tendencies to [...]
Posted on July 28th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Henry Chu’s “Bullied by the Eunuchs” (Los Angeles Times: 7 June 2006):
I was being hit up for a handout by one of this country’s many hijras.
They are eunuchs or otherwise transgendered people by birth, accident or choice. Something between male and female, they are shunned by Indian society as unclean. Many make a rough [...]
Posted on June 19th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Caleb Crain’s “In Search Of Lost Crime” (Legal Affairs: July/August 2002):
… the 1833 trial of Rev. Ephraim K. Avery … discovered Sarah Maria Cornell’s body hanging from a stake among his haystacks …
Consider, as a final example of the pleasures to be had in trial pamphlets, the knot in the rope around Sarah Maria [...]
Posted on May 19th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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I wish Mother Nature would decide if she wants to snow or rain or what.
Added a product to their wishlist:
Good God a'mighty but that big man positively.WAILS on the geetar!
The amazingly loud & good Tony Campanella is just starting. This guy rocked the house last year.
On my way with Robin to the annual Stevie Ray Vaughan tribute show at the Pageant. $15 for a kickass 3 hour + show. Awesomeness!
Daniel Craig = best James Bond ever. Good flick. Amazing fight scene among ropes & flying scaffolding!
About to see Quantum of Solace. I'm just expecting a popcorn movie, so I'm gonna be happy.
Just signed up for Mint to track my finances. http://www.mint.com. So far, it seems great. Really slick interface &easy to use. And free!
Awesome way to search Google, Wikipedia, YouTube, &more: http://keyboardr.com. VERY impressed, I am.