Tracking polls fascinate me and Delan McCullagh’s got a nice feature at Wired on Keeping Track of Tracking Polls. I knew for instance that most polling companies aside from Rasmussen will work for candidates, but I didn’t realize Gallup pushes undecided voters to choose between candidates. Based on McCullagh’s analysis, the most accurate tracking data…
October, 2000
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Feed’s Clay Shirk wrote an excellent article on the problems of visualizing proteins, Seven Ways of Looking at a Protein, and the role that increasing computer power is playing in revolutionizing approaches to the problem. It’s amazing how important proteins are to life and yet how little understood they are. As research gives us more…
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For the most part, I hold the same view of Camille Paglia that she holds of the Libertarian Party — I wish she’d just shut up because she’s very annoying. On the other hand, she did come up with a pretty good idea for the party in her latest Salon.Com column, Speaking of preachy thought…
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Jeremy Rifkin is concerned about the decline in the U.S. savings rate that began in the middle of the 1990s. From saving 8% of income eight years ago, Americans are now saving less than .2% of their income. To Rifkin this can mean only one thing — record economic growth is being bought on credit…
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As some of you know, my wife, Lisa, is a Wiccan. I am most definitely not, but it’s been interesting to watch the religious movement go from off the radar to mainstream over the past decade or so. When Lisa started a campus Wiccan group seven years ago there were very few similar groups around…
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Ugh. CNNFn has a story about what John Sculley is doing these days. The short answer — he’s turned into a vulture capitalist fronting for Gizmoz. Gizmoz, it turns out, is one of a small group of companies with a vision — spam for the broadband age. That’s right folks, now rather than just getting…
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Salon.Com has look at how the WWJD? phenomenon became big business and how the person who started the craze is trying to trademark the phrase in order to stop some of the tackier products featuring the phrase. How tacky? A couple weeks ago my wife and I were buying groceries for my grandmother. In the…
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Mark Morgan pointed out, in reply to my original Groovin’ message, that the current Groove.Net client is Wintel only, although from what I’ve read clients for other systems are definitely planned. After installing the program on my system and playing with it, I am impressed but I wonder if the software isn’t a bit ahead…
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At least from where I am on the net, I’ve had a hard time reaching the Groove Networks site most of the day (at least at reasonable speeds). Anyway, Jon Udell has an interview with Groove Networks founder Ray Ozzie, How Ray Ozzie Got His Groove Back. To quote, Jon: If the objective is secure,…
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Jon Katz is upset because our upcoming election in the United States won’t express the direct will of the voters. To that I can only say, thank God. Too many of my fellow Americans are morons and I’m glad the system will subvert their will. Allow me to justify that extreme statement. I live in…