Lots of Reason Online today.

• Michael C. Moynihan, Michael Moore’s Shticko
• Steve, Chapman, Confessions of a Feral Beast
• Katherine Mangu-Ward, Idiot Investors?
• Cathy Young, Finking on Finkelstein
• Brian Seasholes, Let the Mighty Eagle Soar
• David Weigel, Hello, Nurse!

• David Glenn, You Will be Tested on This
• David Glenn, Why Cramming Doesn’t Work
• Will Sherman, 33 Reasons Why Libraries and Librarians are Still Extremely Important
• Andrew Albanese, Cyberexperts: Fight the RIAA!

I upgraded WordPress to version 2.1.3 today. It was about time. I also read this:

• cpbotha, a critical look at ubuntu feisty beta on an hp nc8430 laptop

• Barbara Quint, “A World of Riddles“—not much substance
• Jill E. Grogg and Beth Ashmore, “Google Book Search Libraries and Their Digital Copies“

Mostly school work today.

• Stephen Baker with Bremen Leak, “Math Will Rock Your World”
• Ian Hacking, chapter 3, “Public amateurs, secret bureaucrats,” from The Taming of Chance
• Ian Hacking, chapter 13, “Regimental chests,” from The Taming of Chance
• Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., chapter 3, “The Railroads: The First Modern Business Enterprises, 1850s-1860s,” from The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business
• Theodore M. Porter, chapter 2, “How Social Numbers Are Made Valid,” from Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life
• Simon A. Cole, chapter 2, “Measuring the Criminal Body,” from Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification

I read quite a few articles and other such stuff online most days, but I never talk about it with anyone usually. I don’t keep track of it either. I figured I could use this “web log” as it is to just link to them for my own purposes and maybe someone else will care.

• John C. Dvorak, The Little Things I Hate About PCs
• John C. Dvorak, Inside Track v26n09
• Gary North, Iran’s Pre-Emptive Strike
• William S. Lind, Blinking Red Light
• Scott McCartney, WiFi in the Sky: Airlines Prepare Cabin Hotspots
• Alvaro Vargas Llosa, The Ethanol Alliance
• Michael Arrington, Mozilla To Build Social Networking Into Firefox: Bad News For Flock
• Shawn Hardin, Mozilla Labs - ‘The Coop’
• Gene Healy, ‘Security Is the New Freedom’