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July 14, 2006
~You know I like to die for awhile / Everyday in the afternoon~
If you want to know what's going on in the Middle East, the only advice (and limited it is) I can give you is to read The Agonist. Their Middle East Crisis Open Thread is particularly informative. And, of course, terribly depressing.
Metcalfe's Law is wrong. It said that the value of a network, x, as it increases in network members, n, is described by the equation x=n^2. Anotherwords, it said the value of a network was proportional to the square of the network's users. Instead, that link declares it should be x=n•log(n). My suspicion—and this has no basis in anything and I haven't even graphed it and my total knowledge of information theory is that it was started by a guy named Claude—is that Euler has to be involved somewhere and maybe x=n•ln(n) would be more correct. via
Ah, isn't the Billy Goats Gruff a great fairy tale? I know I think so. I guess a guy on acid in Colorado thought the same thing: 'Bridge Troll' Arrested After Confrontation With Deputy. He was charging people a buck to cross a bridge in a park, claiming it was his and he was the troll who lived under it. Do click—the mug shots of him and his buddy are priceless. via
Police said that Hibbs insisted he was a troll and owned the bridge the deputy was trying to cross.
Witnesses told police that Hibbs and Bradley Boville, 19, were demanding $1 from joggers and bikers who attempted to cross the bridge.
The off-duty deputy, who was not identified, told police the confrontation with Hibbs started after the man hit his bike with a broken golf club when he forced his way past without paying.
Boville, who was with Hibbs, reportedly told police that they had consumed LSD and that Hibbs was having a bad trip.
Police said they confiscated a large marijuana joint rolled in $1 bills at the scene and then searched Boville's apartment and recovered drugs and drug paraphernalia.
Posted by Jon Rubin at July 14, 2006 11:01 PM
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