Steve

Meme Speed

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How fast can a meme propagate across The Internets?
Acephalous is running a modest experiment to evaluate this question. You can help out!

Here’s what I need you to do:
1. Write a post linking to this one in which you explain the experiment. (All blogs count, be they TypePad, Blogger, MySpace, Facebook, &c.)
2. Ask your readers to do the same. Beg them. Relate sob stories about poor graduate students in desperate circumstances. Imply I’m one of them. (Do whatever you have to. If that fails, try whatever it takes.)
3. Ping Techorati.

Help him out! Give him a link.

Via Pharyngula.

The Vista

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As we were just talking about correct usage we should also note that Microsoft is officially releasing The Vista and other stuff this week:

At an invitation-only affair in New York this week, CEO Steve Ballmer will unveil Windows Vista, Office 2007, and Exchange Server 2007, an upgrade to Microsoft’s market-leading e-mail platform.

The title of the above article is 100 Things You Must Know About Microsoft’s Most Important Product Launch Ever.

User Friendly saves you the work of reading all the details:

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More in the series here and here

Border Costs

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Jaquandor reminds me that the cost of government is higher than the published budget numbers:

…at about 12:30 we left the Falls for the Lewiston Bridge back to the US, and then home.
Well.
The Lewiston Bridge was backed up. Badly. We rolled to a stop about 1.5 KM short of the bridge itself, whereupon we spent the next three hours slowly inching forward, closer and closer to the bridge, then over the bridge, and finally to the Customs checkpoint into the US.
Three hours. About two miles total distance.

That’s a lot of people having a lot of their time wasted and there is more to the story.
Of course there is no explanation by the border person as to why Jaquandor and his family had to go through the grilling and search. My family did not have to on our last crossing a few weeks ago and there would have been no pressure on the guard not to take her time…there was no one in line behind us at the time.

Free people would not be subjected to this crap.