Archive for April, 2006

Want your daughter in modest dress?

Wednesday, April 26th, 2006

Tell her to join the cheerleading squad:

In the United States, the National Federation of State High School Associations issued a new rule for the 2006-07 school year requiring that cheerleading uniforms cover the midriff.

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No one would expect ROT-3!

Friday, April 21st, 2006

Hint: if you’re a fugitive Mafiosi, consider a laptop and GPG. Or at least a one-time pad.

Star Trek, the early years

Friday, April 21st, 2006

Supposedly there’s going to be a Star Trek XI coming out in 2008, which will focus on the TOS characters’ early years. I love the concept, but am worried about the execution. I’d love to see them hire Peter David to write the script.

We welcome our networked tamagotchi overlords…

Wednesday, April 19th, 2006

Tamagotchi are back. And they can communicate with each other. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Pennies as call options

Thursday, April 13th, 2006

Tyler Cowen has a neat post about pennies behaving as call options on zinc/copper.