Gordon's Notes

In the 90s the world kind of made sense. Since then, not so much. I don’t know if teens truly are experiencing an anxiety epidemic, but any ...

A  Jonathon Duerig comment on App.net  reminded me of an old idea that still hasn't come to pass. It should be possible to define a st...

Via Funny Times  [1], I came across allegations of a confident eugenics program (emphases mine): NEWS of the WEIRD - Current News Beijin...

Even by China's standards, North Korea is a hideous place. Why does China keep it going then? Is it merely for cheap labor? A way to ke...

Life in the empire of the Kims: How one man escaped from a North Korean prison camp | Books | The Guardian ... The South Korean governmen...

A copyright troll claims ownership in China of a brand Apple thought it had bought from the original company ... in Taiwan. Chinese IP law ...

"With great power comes great responsibility." Gingrich's inner geek smiled at that one. Certainly they had the power. The Dem...

I've been chattering for a few years about the rise of  mass disability and the role of RCIIT (India, China, computers, networks) in t...

Today one of the quality bloggers I read declared  blogging is dying . Two weeks ago, Brent Simmons, an early sub/pub (RSS, Atom) adopter ta...

Today's DeLong is about bond prices, and, in part, about the effect of uncertainty on savings decisions (emphases mine) ... Hoisted fr...

It occurred to me that a custom Google news section would help me track the worldwide retail organ business. The results were more impress...

The thinkers I follow [2] have been struggling to understand why America's unemployment is so high. Productivity is rising, the economy...

A student of mine grew up in Suzhou, China ; she left about six years ago. It was, she said, an  hour west of Shanghai, and had a population...

Blood and Treasure , one of my favorite blogs, suggests a leaked document as a guide to the current fears of China's leadership --   A G...

I am a niche market; I need software that few people care about. For example, I need software to dynamically manage concepts (ex: “ideas”)...

China will be the third great bubble blowout in a bit over ten years, following the .com and leverage bubbles. The world, of course, will go...

Reuters' hit list of this week's top WikiLeaks was remarkably uninteresting except for this one ... Factbox: WikiLeaks cables offer ...

The NYT is reporting that China is limiting the export of “rare earth” minerals to the US and Europe (and Canada too I’d assume). China did...