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Fauxlogism: a false word, usage, or expression. Best one so far – Michael Bayesian Filters:
(1) #1. a series of computer based filters, trained over time through an artificial intelligence process, which allow computer controlled motion picture cameras to automatically record high budget action sequences in the style of producer/director Michael Bay.
2. a method of filtering email spam that relies on producer/director Michael Bay to manually read and sort all incoming messages.
1/21/2008
Fauxlogisms
Fauxlogism: a false word, usage, or expression. Best one so far – Michael Bayesian Filters:
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Even though Clinton won the most state delegates in today’s Nevada caucus, because Obama did so well in the rural and northern parts of the state, he’s being initially assigned more national delegates from Nevada, which is of course what counts in the end. Of course, more national delegates are assigned during the County Conventions, so this will likely change, but that does allow the Obama campaign to muddy the waters a bit.
(7) #1/19/2008
Back from the caucus
Quick update: just got back from caucusing here in Reno, Nevada. Obama took 50% of the delegates in my precinct compared to Clinton’s 29%, but CNN is calling it for Clinton. I’ll be back in a bit with pictures and more details, but I’ll just say one thing: if you don’t think those Muslim emails going around are hurting Obama, you’re wrong. One elderly woman with a Clinton sticker shouted at me nastily: “I won’t vote for a Muslim!” I spoke with another person who had the same belief, and I later saw her in the Clinton corner. Very depressing.
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Michel Gondry is curating the front page of YouTube, and there are some good ones. (via fimoculous)
(2) #1/18/2008
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Election mash-up videos tend to bore me, but this one is so spot on that I had to link to it. (via techpres)
(2) #1/18/2008
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One thing I’ve realized during this week leading up to the Nevada caucus is that caucuses are generally a bad idea. For instance, this Saturday’s caucus will exclude those who have to work, observant Jews, and the infirm. But I don’t think these disadvantages justify suppressing the vote of thousands of Strip workers, as Clinton supporters are trying to do in Nevada with the tacit (and less tacit) encouragement of the Clinton campaign. Caucuses are inherently unfair, but it never hurts to give more people the chance to vote. Hopefully, next time it’ll be a primary.
Update : A federal judge has ruled in favor of keeping the at-large caucus locations.
(18) #1/17/2008
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Should Vladimir Nabokov’s son destroy the unfinished manuscript of The Original of Laura , which his father asked to be destroyed before his death in 1977? Ron Rosenbaum at Slate ponders the question:
(4) #Does the lust for aesthetic beauty always allow us to rationalize trampling on the artist’s grave? Does the greatness of an artist diminish his right to dispose of his own unfinished work?
1/16/2008
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A video of Tom Cruise promoting Scientology that’s been popping around the web the past few days like a whack-a-mole. He sort of reminds me of his Magnolia character in this.
(4) #1/15/2008
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The electoral compass. Now that we’re in the thick of it, try this new candidate picker! It landed me head-on with my preferred presidential candidate. (via andrew sullivan)
(0) #1/11/2008
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Only 18.3% have chosen to pay the $5 for Saul Williams’s Niggy Tardust so far, a disheartened Trent Reznor reveals on his blog. Williams, on the other hand, is more optimistic in this CNET interview, explaining the reason they released the numbers:
(0) #But really [Reznor’s] whole purpose of releasing that statement was that we could avoid some of the pretentiousness of some of the other groups that have perhaps done something similar, like Radiohead keeping numbers to themselves and us wanting to say, ‘Hey, look this is an open experiment that all artists should know.’ I think that this information is essential for all artists trying to do what we’re doing and figuring out whether this is something that will work.
1/11/2008
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Most pollsters are skipping the Nevada caucuses because they think the transient population, the newness of the early caucus date, and the nature of caucuses themselves make it too difficult to do. Having worked for a statewide campaign here, I know this to be true, but this is great: I might be able to walk into my caucus location next week without a pre-declared winner. (via political wire)
(9) #1/11/2008
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From the I’ll-believe-it-when-I-see-it department: David Fincher may be working on a musical version of Fight Club, with Trent Reznor expressing interest in writing the music. (thx, flea)
(2) #1/10/2008
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Clinton ekes out a win in New Hampshire. This means my vote in the Nevada caucus next week will actually matter!
(52) #1/8/2008
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An interview with Paul Thomas Anderson about the making of There Will Be Blood. Interesting how he views it as a horror movie. (thx, jds)
(0) #1/8/2008
The broken nomination system
As happy as I am about Obama’s recent surge, Harry Reid is right: the presidential nomination system is broken. I think one big primary day would be a mistake, but how about choosing four representative early primary states that changes each election?
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An interview with Paul Thomas Anderson about the making of There Will Be Blood. Interesting how he views it as a horror movie. (thx, jds)
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(0) #1/8/2008
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To continue the theme of world leaders and their preferred entertainments, Queen Elizabeth II loves the Wii!
(5) #1/7/2008
