JR brought my attention to a NYT article on the uproar over the difficulty fans have getting tickets to concerts and other events. Of course, it certainly doesn’t help if Ticketmaster is correct in alleging one software company developed a program that means ticket brokers are “bombarding Ticketmaster’s Web site with millions of automated […]
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Continuing the transition from too many doses of the political to normalcy (including a review, albeit of a politically tinged book, Monday), here’s some accumulated general marginalia. An installment specifically related to books and reading comes later today. Federal immigration authorities have announced a redesigned test with 100 new “civics” questions immigrants will have to […] With a couple more substantive posts on the immediate horizon, here’s a Sunday morning helping of marginalia: I hope he went there for research purposes, but David Louis Edelman’s poking around at the Fox News website produced a very observant post. When we actually win one, the DOJ makes sure it provides some payback for […] As I imagine the blogosphere will be relatively quiet over the holiday weekend, (more a four-day weekend for me thanks to assisting oldest daughter with her return to college Friday), here’s a variety of wide ranging items to explore: It’s awards time at the World Science Fiction convention. Vernor Vinge’s Rainbows End won the biggie […] We can only hope that a now-pulled post on a neocon website urging Bush to assume the role of “President-for-Life” was satire or the work of hackers. (Via.) Denise Ross points out that in part due to her recent vote on the government’s warrantless surveillance powers (discussed in a post earlier this week), has […] |
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