June 2010
55 posts
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“We need folks to be on the lookout for suspicious activity along the
trail, and...”
– A serial killer (of trees) is on the loose in Longfellow. The Winchell Trail, which runs along the bluff below West River Parkway was the grizzly scene of a mass tree murder in recent days. The damage was done below the Dowling School. A trail watch group is being organized now to catch this killer...
“# ML + Crowdsourcing = Supervised Learning. Quite simply, if you first attempt...”
– We’re using armies of cheap workers to train our robots.
“First of all, many of the storm gutters were clogged with crap, and did not...”
– Sentence to Serve Slacks on Sewer Sweeps
“More and more, the thing we buy isn’t a thing, it’s a subscription....”
– Seth Godin on understanding the true costs of what you by or sell.
Beth Hawkins Breaks Down MN's Bong Water Legal... →
SuperMedia puts Syracuse phone book on diet →
The Verizon Superpages was 1/2” skinnier in Syracuse this year because they took out the maps, stadium maps, health and wellness pages, and coupons. They also lost 32 pages of advertisers. That’s one way to go greener.
“I’ve already opted out using our primary account but still get these...”
– One of the 328 negative comments (so far) on Comcast’s blog post about their Domain Helper Services / Internet hijacking service.
WatchMinnesotaHistory.net has been cranking out and pointing to some interesting stuff about Fort Snelling in recent weeks.
“After a bit of silence, a woman in an embroidered sweatshirt tells him, “I think...”
– A nugget from Mark Dayton’s campaign trail by Tim Gihring.
You are reading this on a blood diamond →
beenthinking:
Letitia and Chris’ respective smart comments have stayed on my mind since I read them. I knew some of the world’s history of plundering the Congo. In my personal experience, partially because of the vicious laziness and corruption of the DRC government, doing little to nothing to protect their own people’s livelihood from outside manipulators if they can personally make an easy...
“Capital Growth has agreed to “provide free one-month transit passes to...”
– A few nuggets on the transit-friendly (auto-hostile?) plans for the new development planned the SE corner of Hiawatha at 38th St E.
Solid Analysis of the Housing Market →
Short version: It’s hard for people to sell their homes when they’re behind on their mortgage, or current on their mortgage but with negative equity.
How Does the Vuvuzela Work?
fakescience:
“What’s your problem. You guys hate working people, the middle class, and...”
– Minnesota Democrats Exposed commenter, Alex, on how strange it is to see the MN GOP attacking the Republican behavior of former Republican and IP candidate, Tom Horner.
Goin' Snowmobilin' in the 218
“If you tithe 10% of your income, and your ARM resets, how do you come up with...”
– Interesting article on choosing between one’s home and religious financial obligations. To me, it seems like someone could do more to help others if they first have taken care of their own need for shelter.
Watchdanwick:
katespencer:
Hey Guys - Just want to make sure everyone watches this video of Salma Hayek shitting her pants over a snake that appears during an outdoor interview.
It will probably be the best thing you watch all day.
The Movie: Grown Ups.
“Now, many phones are mobile and can hold their own directories. And with the...”
– A Yellow Pages rep on antiquated phone directories. Nope, not yellow pages directories. She’s talking about white pages. Funny how the same arguments apply to both, but only to white pages if your paycheck is yellow pages dependent.
via Greg Swan (who’s also doing some fine TP folding...
Toxic cities mock 'healthy' cycle riding →
robosheep:
thepolitics:
Cycling to work may seem the healthy option, but a study has shown that people riding in cities inhale tens of millions of toxic nanoparticles with every breath, at least five times more than drivers or pedestrians.
The research involved fitting cyclists with devices that could count the particles, mostly emitted by car exhausts, in the air they were breathing.
It...
Give Me Something To Read: collecting long-form... →
nickdouglas:
nostrich:
From “a really little town” in Berkshire County, England, Richard Dunlop-Walters hopes to give you something worth checking out at a site called, well, “Give Me Something To Read.”
Andrea Pitzer wrote a little thing about me! Ok, about Give Me Something to Read, but she had to talk to me first to do it. Take that!
Now I’m going to quote something that I said, to...
“- Senator Al Franken and Tom Davis’s One More Saturday Night is set in St....”
– A sampling of St. Cloud’s pop culture claims to fame on Wikipedia. This section comes before the section on education. Which comes before the section on Famous Residents. Which lists one: Tom Petters. History wise, the city’s first mayor was a slave holder.
I’ve said it before and...
“The Puffy Dick
Probably the most bizarre dick I’ve ever seen was...”
– CJ has seen her share of dicks.
“Bloggers generally explain how they discovered a news item.
As a result,...”
– Danny Sullivan has an excellent breakdown about how a story he broke flew around the web via mainstream media sites that failed to cite their sources. An all-too common scenario.
“Why is it that privileged suburbanites—the kind of people we see swing...”
– Johnny proposes the same “grow your own” solution to cutting financial support for drug gangs.
“If you have an “obscure but important topic,” that actually tends to...”
– Mike Masnick on why reporters are misguided by getting into pageview chasing shenanigans rather than writing stuff worth reading. I’d also much rather read what people have to say about a topic they truly understand and are passionate about rather than pieces by writers attempting to give me...