No maps for these territories

http://www.edge.org/discourse/whosays.html#go “Here is my modest epistemological prediction: The more knowledge grows on Wikipedia or other similar tools on the Web, the more crucial the mastery of reputational cues about the quality of information will become. An introduction of tools for measuring”credentials” seems thus the most natural development of such a system. But of course we [...]

==Sightings in Davis, part 17 of 23== Today, in the hippie food coop, I saw the following excellent sight: an entire caucasian family, all with ratty dreadlocks. Papa, mama, big sister, little sister — all had matching tangles and long, white-boy ‘dreads. They were also all wearing board shorts and flipflops, but that is common [...]

Tonight the town where I live — a good town, in many ways, for reasons like this — threw a block party for the Harry Potter release. They closed off the street, erected a portable movie screen, and gave a free showing of the fourth movie; there were prizes and games and snacks from the [...]

I have a new computer (yes, again; it’s a long story, but the last one did not really work out). It was expensive. It’s shiny and small; the keyboard is perfect. I love you without hesitation, new Dell laptop. This is the laptop for someone who travels a great deal; for someone who is writing [...]

My productive activity for the day has been sweating. It is so hot. In a certain perverse way, I don’t mind; I’ve only had the air conditioner on a couple hours. But, this also means I haven’t gotten anything else done. My brain turns off at temperatures over 80F, I think. Yesterday I went into [...]

So, on Wikipedia these days, when you mistype your username/password (as I often do, having changed my pass recently) you get prompted with a captcha to help prevent password cracking. A worthy goal. I think this may be the best one I’ve gotten yet, considering the circumstances:

From a job ad: The Pleasanton Public Library, serving 67,000 citizens in the beautiful tri-valley area east of the San Francisco Bay, has an opening for a full-time reference librarian. One of Northern California’s premier residential and business communities, Pleasanton is well regarded as an attractive and friendly city with well-educative, active and involved residents…