Looks like will need a new ISP at the new residence.  Do people have any ISP recommendations? (Or dis-recommendations, for that matter.)

Was having dinner at mrsbrown and mr_bassman's place when sjkasabi mentioned a paper on travel times in the Roman Empire. A Google(tm) search led me to the Orbis site.

A rather fun marriage of Classics and IT.

Regarding my previous post about our annoying intermittent internet problems, if I wait long enough from the last I did it, if I restart the router I get a brief window of opportunity where I can download emails and have those I have queued in the outbox.

My housemate Snake and I are having annoying intermittent internet problems ( Read more... )

The internet was not online at chez erudito for a few days. (Router and modem died, then getting the new router-modem up was a bit of a saga.) But back in communication now.

I can search the internet with Google(tm) quicker and easier than the files on my computer with Finder(tm).

That seems wrong somehow.

ADDENDA: I originally called this a puzzle: clearly, that was just my ignorance. At most, it is an incongruity.

Kiwi Parliamentarians having a lot of fun during Question time.

Oz ranks in top 10 of gender-equal countries according to World Economic Forum.

About the Oz diaspora (many whom are in fact migrants who have returned to their original countries).

Australians have the world’s biggest houses.

Raising a few issues on the Rudd Government’s ( Read more... )

How finding a Norwegian film about Nazi zombies awesome connects to hostility to free markets. More.

Paper surveying the evidence on minimum wages:
…the studies that focus on the least-skilled groups provide relatively overwhelming evidence of stronger disemployment effects for these groups.

Nice discussion of the real world impact of Smoot-Hawley ( Read more... )

The growth of cognitive science has been one of the major intellectual advances of the last few decades. Largely kicked off by Noam Chomsky’s rethinking of the human aptitude for language, and attracting noted popularisers (such as Steven Pinker), it has been spreading across intellectual life. That humans have finally created something that is ( Read more... )

Back on line at home, yay!

But having trouble sending out emails. Hmmmm.