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2.4 Mile Swim, Start [17MB]
2.4 Mile Swim, Start 2nd Loop [9MB] 2.4 Mile Swim Ends, Remove Wetsuits [3.5MB] 2.4 Mile Swim, Stepping out of Lake Monona [17MB] 2.4 Mile Swim, Scenes [12MB] 2.4 Mile Swim, Scenes II [5MB] |
Thanks to Omaha’s Paul Johnson for shooting this video while I snapped still photographs.
UPDATE: One additional video clip – the cycling segment [9MB]
Nassim Taleb publishes a useful website that includes a number of useful articles following up on his wonderful book, Fooled by Randomness. His latest is: The Scandal of Prediction (PDF):
“My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves & the quality of their knowledge too seriously & those who don’t have the guts to sometimes say: I don’t know….” (You may not be able to change the world but can at least get some entertainment & make a living out of the epistemic arrogance of the human race).
After 10 years in the business, Anonymizer has two million active users. The US government pays it to promote the service in China and Iran in order to help promote free speech.
But these programs are becoming popular in the West too.
The software encrypts all your requests for webpages. Anonymizer’s servers then automatically gather the content on your behalf and send it back to you.
No humans are involved and the company does not keep records of who requests what.
However, there is some censorship. Anonymizer does not support anonymous uploading to the web, and it blocks access to material that would be illegal under US law.
Benjamin Stephan and Lutz Vogel created a very useful short film on the oxymoron “Trusted Computing”.
