It seems absurd since the whole idea behind digg is that almost the entire community is user moderated. Stories make it to the front by getting dugg and ones that don’t or get removed are ones that are reported.
Today I witnessed some rather odd activity on digg that made me wonder if digg is [...]

Digg got spam hacked severely today right after I posted a digg about Einstein’s riddle.

One of the spammer names is a play on my user name “jessecrouch”; they use “jessecouch”. How clever. I swear I had nothing to do with it though.
The link goes to a ZDNet article about adigg spam hack that [...]

The Seminar

I left on the morning of the 17th to go to Petersburg, IN for a martial arts seminar. I ended up getting there a half an hour late thinking I was half an hour early. Petersburg, IN is apparently in a different timezone. Took a few pictures on the way there [...]

It’s often stated that children have an easier time learning things than adults. I think I finally noticed my first episode of this recently with programming and I think I indentified exactly what it is:
I’ve been experinencing feelings of not wanting to work on things because I’m unwilling to sit down and play around [...]

One of the primary investors of thefacebook.com has ties to the CIA. Google searching the references will give you multiple verifiable sources for the information.
The full article mostly talks about where all of facebook’s venture capital came from.
It’s interesting that there’s so much information on facebook and it is structured a social mapping mechanism.. complete [...]

There are some people who believe that a national sales tax would be better than an income tax. There are plenty more who will disagree with that statement entirely. Neal Boortz, a syndicated talk show host, and US House Representative John Linder have teamed up to write a book about making a “fair” [...]

This is probably one of the most interesting studies I’ve read recently about education.
A great success story is taking place beneath the government and media’s radar. Independent private schools in the world’s poorest villages and slums are providing students with higher quality education than their public-sector counterparts. A groundbreaking study released today by the Cato [...]

One of the biggest failures of government officials and the public is the failure to recognize the long term effects of their actions and over-emphasize the short term results for certain groups. Be it in economic or social issues, this is the one area where lobbyists, politicians and the mob will probably never cease [...]

This is probably one of the best articles to concisely and easily explain the current budget situation in this country.

Congress has outspent its own income in 45 of the last 50 years, thereby running up deficits by over $5 trillion. But $4 trillion of those deficits were in just the last 20 years. And then [...]