It's February and the temperature remains in the single digits where in MN, so here are a few various items for midwinter reading:
The winter doldrums are upon us and there hasn't been much email traffic in a while so I wanted to forward a few interesting things.
A. KVSC trivia weekend - KVSC St. Cloud is doing their trivia weekend this weekend, 50 hours of minutae. Every time I hear about this contest it makes me wish I had gone to SCSU so I could have played. It's open to everyone and you can listen on the web over streaming radio, but it just wouldn't be the same. Plus, the team names on the scores page are fun to read.
http://www.kvsc.org/trivia/news.html
B. Defense of marriage in Washington state - a ballot initiative in WA state would redefine the marriage laws to impose an automatic annullment on any marriage not showing "proof of procreation" within three years of the wedding date. It would also define as invalid any out-of-state marriage which did not show the same proof within the three years. It's satire as law but there are interesting side effects.
http://www.wa-doma.org/Default.aspx
C. A thousand and one photos, highest rated: not sure who does the rating but they have some pretty incredible photos here, including the Pulitzer winner of a vulture watching a Sudanese boy drag himself toward a food camp. Not all photos are as dark as that, some are quite beautiful, including one of boats that appear to be floating on air over crystal-clear water in the Maldives.
http://www.athousandandone.com/search/_rating/
D. Jack Bauer vs. Aqua Teen Hunger Force: if you heard about what happened in Boston and watch both Aqua Teen Hunger Force and "24", you'll laugh. Also, you're me, so my condolences.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWUaQVZHzyI
E. Your friends and neighbors and people you've never heard of: one of the hottest topics on the web (now in a phase being called Web 2.0, 1.0 being the dot-com era) is the concept of collaborative filtering/social aggregation, where users get together on sites and rank stories of potential interest. This is a pretty good overview but it leaves out popurls.com, which is my personal home page now:
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB117106531769704150-zpK10wf4CJOB4IKoJS5anuNoi6Y_20080209.html
That's it from me, might be just wasting bits but I hope not.
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I like 24 although after several seasons it is a bit repetitive. Anyway the cartoon was good.
Defense of marriage sounds like a good Law.
Love the photos will be back to look at some more. I didn't spend too long there is there a slide show of all of them or do you need to click o them one at a time?
If it's happening it's on the web and being rated some how. One could spend all day just looking at the hottest stories.
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