Lynne Kiesling Wired also has an article this morning about VinoVenue, a wine bar in San Francisco that opened in September 2004. The cool thing about VinoVenue is that you buy a smartcard and go around to the stations, inserting your card and having a taste automatically dispensed. The card records which wines you tasted, …
Lynne Kiesling Wired has an interesting article today about creative means of cell phone shushing, linking to the SHHH cards that I discussed here in December.
Lynne Kiesling I am following Will Wilkinson’s lead (which can sometimes be tantalizingly dangerous!) and putting my entire online music collection on shuffle to see what comes up. For some reason my party shuffle gave me 12, so I report them in order here: 1. The Verve, “Neon Wilderness,” from Urban Hymns 2. De/Vision, “6 …
Lynne Kiesling When in the DC area I’ve always tuned to WHFS, and the KP Spouse credits WHFS with contributing to the development of his taste in music that kept us up talking until 2AM on our first date (and many times since!). Although it had gotten to be a shadow of its former self …
Lynne Kiesling Today the Chicago Sun-Times is running a story by Mary Wisniewski about the Energy Smart Pricing Plan, a residential demand response program that has been running in northern Illinois for two years. One of our many long-cherished preconceptions of the demand for electric power services is that residential customers do not respond to …
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Michael Giberson Randall Parker at FuturePundit discusses research that suggests that being in love makes it harder for a person to assess the degree of emotional involvement of other couples. As he puts it: People who were in love and other people who were not in love were asked to view film clips of couples …
Michael Giberson So I was driving home last night, worming my way through traffic and punching buttons on the radio trying to find something to listen to. One of the buttons produced some brand of Latin pop, which surprised me since I hadn?t programmed any such station into the radio. But I just cursed at …
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Michael Giberson In ?Regulation by Network,? Amitai Aviram explains how opportunistic behavior is disciplined when markets are networked, and how regulation in networked worlds differs from regulation by private enforcement of contracts or regulation by government. This article came to mind last night as I was reading Dana Gioia?s ?Fallen Western Star,? his account of …
Michael Giberson In ?Regulation by Network,? Amitai Aviram explains how opportunistic behavior is disciplined when markets are networked, and how regulation in networked worlds differs from regulation by private enforcement of contracts or regulation by government. This article came to mind last night as I was reading Dana Gioia?s ?Fallen Western Star,? his account of …
Lynne Kiesling Instead of doing what I should be doing today, I am sidelined with a bug and an almost-migraine that I am trying to keep in its “almost” state. First bad headache in six months. So I’ve done a little housekeeping, including adding two new sites to the link list: Ramble On from Courtney …
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