Monday, January 10, 2005

Boycott God

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Send a Message to God - He has gone too far this time. By Heather Mac Donald A satirical take on the problem of evil. The blackest of hu...

Tale of a multilevel marketing scam: "Work at Home" with herbalife

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Work from Home, unwelcome Herbalife Signs Ever wonder how those "work at home" business actually work?

The big event of 2005: nanotech solar energy conversion?

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CTV.ca | New plastic can better convert solar energy TORONTO — Researchers at the University of Toronto have invented an infrared-sensitiv...
Sunday, January 09, 2005

The dismal state of consumer electronics: the curse of being market driven

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NYTimes.com (Pogue): Circuits Newsletter The newest camcorders, designed to meet the needs of discriminat ... err braindead consumers ha...

ConsumerReports.org: $26 per year, or $18 if you cancel first ...

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Consumer Reports Customer Service Center Differential charges are a common tactic, but you're supposed to be more subtle about than ...

On human language

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Economist.com | Endangered languages The Economist reviews the decline of human languages. Some interesting excerpts: 10,000 years a...

Forgotten History: Haiti and the Mau-Mau rebellion

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The New York Times > Books > Sunday Book Review > 'Though the Heavens May Fall' and 'Bury the Chains': Freed Th...

Brzezinski on what it would take to "win" in Iraq

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The New York Times > Opinion > Maureen Dowd: Defining Victory Down Mr. Scowcroft appeared at the New America Foundation with Zbigniew ...

21st century disaster response: handy to have an aircraft carrier ...

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The New York Times > International > International Special > Military: Tsunami Tests U.S. Forces' Logistics, but Gives Pentagon...

The Kennedy Curse? Perhaps not all curses are mythical.

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NEWS.com.au | Hidden Kennedy delivered from curse (January 10, 2005) Rosemary Kennedy wasn't brilliant. I gather, from the limited d...

What do Social Security "Reform", the Iraq War, IOKIFYAR, Rumsfeld, Plato, Strauss and Nietzsche have in common?

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Faughnan's Notes: Social Security talking points What do all of these things have in common? For a hint, look here and here and he...
Saturday, January 08, 2005

A clever summary of the classic republican perspectives on the poor

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Asymmetrical Information: Numbers that just don't add up 1. Those tricksy bastards (Dems) are wildly overstating the problems [this post...

How to get great press for free and fake out government: Intel/eBay "Rethink"

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Rethink Initiative: Recycle Wow. What a great PR move. I want to hire eBay's marketing/PR team. They get a great press release ou...
Friday, January 07, 2005

In Gore-world, we save 100,000 from a tsunami

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The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Contributor: Looking for the Next Tsunami A worldwide disaster monitoring and forecasting ini...

IOKIYAR means a "Higher Morality": Four years of a bad novel

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The New York Times > Opinion > Krugman: Worse Than Fiction It's good to have Paul back. Here he delivers cogent summary of fou...