The normally sensible Michael Kinsley gives this analysis of the Supreme Court decisions on affirmative action:
Admission to a prestige institution like the University of Michigan or its law school is what computer types call a “binary” decision. It’s yes or no. You’re in, or you’re out. There is no partial or halfway admission. The […]
Via Ben Hyde (whom I met last week at the Open Source conference) comes this bit of AI. If you’re tired of those “Which x are you?” quizzes, try this one. It beat me the first three times I played it, until I started thinking of much harder words. Trying to figure out what counts […]
In the next couple of months, I’m going to be making three trips across the Pacific ocean. (Don’t ask.) The big question is therefore, what to read on the plane? It’s 14 hours from L.A. to Sydney. Subtracting all the eating, fitful sleeping and laptop use still leaves lots of empty time. Any suggestions […]
The ongoing search for WMDs has yielded a few things in the general vicinity of the acronym, such as Paperwork of Mass Destruction, Weapons of Mass Disappearance, Whitehouses of Major Dubiousness and the like. But no Weapons of Mass Destruction. In fact, there are signs that the category itself might be coming apart at […]
In an aside to a post, John Quiggin asks,
I know the spelling of my name is not obvious from its pronunciation, and I always take care to spell it out when I’m talking to someone. But how can people get it so consistently wrong when they’re taking it from a printed source?
Believe me, I sympathize. […]
Just got back into town to find the Aspen Fire has destroyed most of Summerhaven, a town on top of Mt Lemmon, outside of Tucson. The U of A Webcam has a bunch of images of the plume in the distance (that big building in the right foreground is the social sciences building, by the […]
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