Boris Dittrich is Cuba uitgezet!
LOL... Castro vond 'm niet lief, heeft zeker met ene Lodewijk de W.
gepraat. In ieder geval is de schurk direct bij aankomst in de kraag
gevat:
"Het drietal was naar Cuba gereisd om zich van de mensenrechtensituatie
op de hoogte te stellen. Bij aankomst werd het gezelschap aangehouden."
Service toch van Castro? Heeft 'ie meteen de binnenkant van de
gevangenis kunnen inspecteren. Dittrich wilde trouwens zo graag met
dissidenten praten? Die zaten volgens hem toch ook in de cel? Maar dat
'ie nou dankbaar is...
"Volgens de woordvoerster van Dittrich heeft de D66-leider haar via
sms'jes vanuit de cel op de hoogte gehouden van zijn situatie. Dittrich
is zeer verbolgen over het incident: "Ik ben woedend. Ik heb zoiets nog
nooit meegemaakt"."
Snappen jullie het?
Posted by in Old Stuff @ 16 10 04 | One comment / No trackbacks
A while ago I wrote about
the book "The Wisdom of the Crowds" and, more to the point, about the
experiment "The jellybean challenge" associated with it. I wrote then
the experiment would probably fail. It ran until somewhere in
august, the website displays the following eversince:
"Thanks to everyone who participated in the Wisdom of Crowds jelly
bean challenge. Please check back soon for the contest results."
Now publishing the result is quite an easy task, not one that would
last months. So I was probably right, someone did guess the exact
number of beans. They should have let someone with at least half a
brain devise the experiment (or trust it to the wisdom of the crowds
ofcourse ;)). Whether or not this is true, they ought to come clean.
It is a pitty though, the Wisdom of the Crowds thesis deserves
better and a better experiment (one that would actually support their
claim) can be easilly devised (use a billion times more beans).
Posted by in Old Stuff @ 06 10 04 | No comments / One trackback
Countries all over the world have been beefing up their anti-terrorist policies. Lots of secret stuff, colorful codes, lots of money being thrown towards interdepartmental cooperation and communication services and the like, but have you heard anything you can do other then the vague "be alert"? David Stevenson wrote a simple 10 point plan to lead anti terrorism efforts into the 21st century.
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Posted by in Blogging @ 01 10 04 | No comments / No trackbacks