netarchy

Testing

2012-01-19T20:17:00.000-08:00

Unicode hacking, whatta pain.

Many Hebrew sentences have a few correct orders of words. One can change the order of the words in the sentence and keep the same meaning. For example, the sentence "Dad went working", in Hebrew, includes a word for Dad (אבא), for went (הלך), and for working (to the working place = לעבודה). However, unlike in English, you can put those three words almost in any combination (אבא הלך לעבודה/ לעבודה אבא הלך/ לעבודה הלך אבא/ הלך אבא לעבודה and so on).

ignore this

2012-01-01T22:28:00.000-08:00

I'm using this for testing, eg here's a billmon link that should get rewritten.

Here's a completely crap link.

Let's try that again...

2009-10-08T17:00:00.001-07:00

If anybody can pull this off Google can...good luck.

in reference to: Third Voice Trails Off.... (view on Google Sidewiki)

Anybody remember 3rdvoice?

2009-10-08T16:57:00.001-07:00

There have been quite a number of attempts to add annotation to the web. Google might have the clout to pull it off...will be interesting to watch.
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2001/04/42803

in reference to: Google Sidewiki (view on Google Sidewiki)

Giant Vampire Squids

2009-07-18T12:34:00.000-07:00

Matt Taibbi and Max Keiser (who I never heard of before this) are having a very enjoyable friendly competition to see who can produce the best invective about Goldman Sachs. Are they financial terrorists who should be brought up on charges in the Hague, or giant vampire squids their tentacles wrapped around the face of humanity? We report, you decide.

Here's Keiser on French TV, which is apparently a lot better than ours:

And here's the more sober Eliot Spitzer saying essentially the same things:

As a well-known financial ignoramus, I truly am not sure how pissed off I should be at this, but until I hear otherwise I'm willing to trust the above commenters. If this anger would penetrate the gelatinous brain of the average American we might actually be at risk of something happening...but it won't.

Most depressing is the realization that the Obama administration is just as much in the pocket of the financial "services" industry as the Republicans, if not more so. Not really a surprise, but the temporary mood of hope and change sure has faded fast.