Saturday, June 16, 2007

Sachs Reith 2007 - Lecture Four - Social engineering

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From Jeffrey Sachs' 4th Reith Lecture on alleviating poverty in Africa ... BBC Radio 4 - Reith Lectures 2007 - Lecture 4: Economic Sol...

Expensive toxic toy trains from ...

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Well, where do you think they come from?  Thomas the Tank Engine Toys Recalled Because of Lead Paint - New York Times ... The affected ...

More whacko terrorists - is this why we're still standing?

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Schneier is back. Actually, he was never gone. The feed I was using to track him had been abandoned; I finally decided to see why he was sil...
Friday, June 15, 2007

Krugman again, this time syndicated

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Krugman was recently caught posting on TPM Cafe . Nice, but no feed. Today DeLong pointed to a DeLong post on an European econ site, but th...

Fall of The Economist - resting with Al Jazeera?

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The Economist has fallen a long way in the past ten years: Transparency for thee but not for me | FP Passport : ... A new study out from the...

verschärfte Vernehmung and George W. Bush

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Not much gives me chills in these waning days of Cheney/Bush rule. All the outrage seems to have been spilled. What more can be said? This, ...

A fraud victim's false victory and the high tech industry that supports identity theft

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SFGate, a San Francisco news site, puts on optimistic spin on the chance capture of a woman who did very well as an identify thief. Alas, th...
Thursday, June 14, 2007

Dyer - four new essays

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Dyer has four new essays up. Enjoy. Articles 2007 May 31 The War of Six Days and Forty Years June 4 Don't Mention the Warming (G8 and ...

Botnets, ovarian cancer, MySpace "offenders" and Bayes

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What do botnets,  "symptom" definition for ovarian cancer ,  MySpace "sex offenders" , homeland security passenger scree...
Wednesday, June 13, 2007

The Economist on China's toxic export problem

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The Economist, through teeth firmly clenched, admits that China has a product quality problem. Even so, with eyes firmly averted, they fail ...
Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Cosmic Variance's Sean Carroll on the arrow of time

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I've been reading Sean Carroll's posts on Cosmic Variance , not realizing until now that he's a research associate at my alma ma...
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Monday, June 11, 2007

Sex offender madness, Minnesota version

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A few weeks ago I commented on the lunacy of MySpace's sex offender identification process . I know something about the way these matchi...
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Sunday, June 10, 2007

GOP: party of the stone age candidate

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Throughout most of human history, the leader was probably the surviving male with the highest testosterone levels as manifested by jaw, shou...
Saturday, June 09, 2007

Liberating public goods from the NTIS - radical

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The National Technical Information Service charges absurd amounts for data that's part of the public domain, including various data sets...

Polonium - an update

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Slate features excerpts from a book on the "Sasha" Litvinenko murder: Who killed Alexander Litvinenko ? - By Alex Goldfarb and M...