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Missionaries and Cannibals

Created with Wink and Photoshop. Yeah, I guess I’ve avoided Photoshop for long enough. Here’s a rather bizarre version of the game on learn4good.com .

Homeland Stupidity

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Homeland Stupidity Threat Advisory System – IO ERROR The threat of homeland stupidity :

Where are the Comments?

In case you wonder where your comment went, well, my bad. I blew out the MySQL database last weekend. I was able to reconstruct my posts from cached versions on Google, and in some cases I was able to set the date to the same as the original. But I ran out of steam before getting the comments added – and I wouldn’t have been able to set up the user accounts anyway. So that’s why. I must get into the habit of archiving the database every week.

Missionaries and Cannibals Revisited

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I see from my access logs that someone found me by searching the web for “Missionaries and Cannibals”. So: Missionaries & Cannibals. This is a bar game we used to play. The rules are simple, the solution isn’t, especially when you’re in Jay’s Elbow Room getting hammered. The story is that there are three missionaries want to use a rowboat to cross a river with three newly-converted cannibal friends. There are six people but the boat only holds two, so they’ll have to row back and forth in singles and pairs. However, there are two gotchas. First, although all three missionaries know how to row the boat, only one cannibal does. Second, if cannibals outnumber missionaries on either shore they will give in to temptation and eat the missionaries. Got that? Great. Start by drawing a couple of lines down the center of a placemat – this is the river. If there’s no placemat, draw on the table. Now put three dimes on one side of the river. The...

Myers-Briggs/Keirsey lookalike test

INTP – the Architect You scored 9% I to E, 26% N to S, 71%  to T, and 84% J to P! You are more introverted than extroverted. You are more intuitive than observant, you are more thinking based than feeling based, and you prefer to go with the flow rather than have a routine. The single word to describe your type is the Architect, which belongs to the larger group of rationals. You wish to sculpt the world around you. Others often find you arrogant, yet you have no desire to direct others, only to inform them. You must know the structure of things, and have a voracious appetite for knowledge. You are very rational in everything you do, and probably consider yourself smarter than most. As a romantic partner, you can be playful with great energy to get things started, but not quite as good on follow through. You may have a tendency to hurt the more emotional types unintentionally by not sharing your own reactions and...

Edelman/Technorati blog survey

This is the first post in the new category Meta , which will be, of course, blog entries about blogging. The purpose of this post is to clarify my own opinions and practices with respect to advertising. Dear Leslie, Thank you for participating in the Edelman/Technorati blog survey . We conducted this study to: Better understand bloggers’ attitudes towards corporations and PR firms Help clients understand why and how they should engage the blogosphere Technorati contacted tens of thousands of active bloggers via email, blog posts and the networks of discussion and links those posts generated. The survey generated 821 responses during the week of September 26, 2005. [..] Thanks again for participating. Richard Richard Edelman President & CEO, Edelman richard.edelman@edelman.com My answers: The primary reason I blog is to Create a record of my thoughts . The secondary reason, of course, is to occasionally engage like-minded readers in conversations on a topic. I post Every fe...

Supreme Court: Harriet Miers?

Conservatives Split Over Bush Nominee It doesn’t matter whether Ms. Miers is Conservative or a Constructionist or anti-abortion or for war. Let’s cut to the chase. Harriet Miers has never sat on the bench. She&’;s not a judge and has never been one. She isn’t qualified for the job. Period.