RhetoricVille

I have been playing around lately with Joomla, the open source content-management system.  Partly I just like to learn new technologies — new to me, I mean.  Partly, I am thinking of using Joomla for the web site I manage for my union.   I am fond of open source software.  Not just because it’s free, […]

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M. Daniels at Princeton has a online playable version of the Prisoner’s Dilemma. The computer opponent is programmed to play four different strategies. The human player can pick the strategy or let chance do it.  It’s a simple interactive introduction to a basic non zero-sum game.

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Apparently I qualify. You need to be 50+ and blog. This according to Ronni Bennett over at the Time Goes By blog. Well, I may as well own up to it. I passed 50 a few years ago. The year I turned 50, I helped organize a labor union. Since then, […]

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Currently, I am writing for my other blog, MWCWC: The weblog of the Marian Wright Computer Writing Center. Maybe I will cross-post some of the content here.

I also have a new Twitter micro-blog at http://twitter.com/jimanderson. Not sure how long I will keep that one up, but it is fun.

Finally, I have helped my wife, […]

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http://www.thinkbabynames.com/
This site is the best I’ve found for finding names. You can generate random names, browse lists of male and female names (organized by country, popularity and era), and find out what names mean.

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