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Jesse Ventura Undecided on Senate Bid

Jesse Ventura can?t seem to make up his mind. The former Minnesota governor has not said definitively whether he will be running for Senate. Speculation over whether he would enter the state?s...

DOJ Sorta Admits the Enemy May Have Traits

And isn't the Invisible, Nondescript, Possibly a Poodle But Maybe a Sasquatch Wrapped in An Enigma that we've been on the lookout for. For seven years. Who knows, the enemy just may be,...

Collaborative Filtering: Lifeblood of The Social Web

Collaborative Filtering (Wikipedia definition) is a mechanism used to filter large amounts of information by spreading the process of filtering among a large group of people. Unlike mainstream media...

Hypothetical Theatre

Let’s say there’s a left-handed pitcher on the Giants. Let’s call him Tossy McDufftapper. Let’s say that he has a two-pronged problem with his pitching:His fastball is...

World Without Oil and $5 gas

Back in February people were hypothetically talking about $4 a gallon gasoline. Now with my corner gas station at $4.39, there is talk about $5.00 gas by the end of July. Crazy stuff. Who knows...

E. coli Evolution Follow-up

I'm back at last from the west coast leg of the Microcosm tour. Portland had a cloudy, melancholy charm, and at Powell's I gave a reading in front of a collection of hand-made black velvet...

Nigel Lythgoe concerned about ringers on Dancing with the Stars, but not American Idol

Paula Abdul is still considering being a competitor on Dancing with the Stars 7 this fall, maybe, but her American Idol executive producer doesn't like the idea because of how unfair it would...

Meet the Team: Ludwig Kietzmann

Filed under: Meta (about Joystiq) In the world of professional game blogging, the people are represented by two separate, yet equally important groups: the bloggers who investigate the stories and...

Blodget Says Facebook Is Only Worth $9 Billion, Hypothetically Speaking

Putting a value on private companies is hard enough for insiders and venture capitalists who have full access to the company’s financial statements. When outsiders try to do it, even...

The New Pyramid Builders II

If you thought the cosmology of the Koran was absurdly irrational and a kind of parody of the Bible's, a meeting of Muslim scientists and clerics recently claimed that the Koran contains scientific...