Scopious Pursuits

Worth Noting

• Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
• Depression and the Threat of Nonbeing
• The New Renaissance, an essay by Daniel Quinn, author of Ishmael.
• Listen to oral arguments at the Supreme Court of the United States, in the case of District of Columbia v. Heller (No. 07-290)

Useful

• A recipe for ham and beans.
• Windows Annoyances

Interesting

• Various Items
• Several articles on offshore banking and investing
• A table showing how many spam messages my mail server rejected in the last seven days.

  Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
  1770	1770	1879	2009	2016	2173	2061

  This is getting ridiculous! This is my own personal mail server, used very rarely by a few close friends, but for the most part there's only one mailbox on the whole server: mine.

  So what are the latest ideas in spam fighting? I haven't thought much about it in a while; hopefully there has been significant progress.

Beautiful

• A Collection of things I like. This is not my own work -- I'm not that creative.

Amusing

• Political Humor
• Open Directory of Random Amusing Files
• George looks awfully still -- are you sure he's ok?