Gordon's Notes

This is as inevitable as the rising sun ... Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters : ... British police want to collect DNA samples fr...

I think CT nails the modern Economist magazine: Crooked Timber - Are you smart enough to enjoy the Economist? ....The Economist succeeds i...

You'd think an 8 yo would remember events from age four pretty well -- but they don't. Those four year old events might as well have...

We all know frogs will jump out of a beaker of slowly warming water -- long before it boils. If they've been " pithed " howeve...

I really don't know what "Obama's Pastor Wright" said, but I gather it wasn't very nice. In reading Obama's respon...

Not a police state, not yet. Surveillance state is a good term. INTEL DUMP - NSLs and the National Surveillance State I agree with...

My old, long neglected web page on bike touring included a section on bike reference links . Surprisingly most of the links still work, incl...

I thought Gail Collins had the very best comment on the Spitzer story: Unwelcome Surprises - New York Times ...Memo to future disgraced poli...

Wired magazine's front page claimed recently that "free" was the new cheap. That would be consistent with Robert Reich's l...

Please tell me this is satire... What’s on TV Tonight? Humiliation to the Point of Suicide - New York Times In November 2006, ...

By an odd bit of synchronicity I'm simultaneously engaged with leading edge research in " Translational Bioinformatics " and r...

In a nation heading to $7/gallon gasoline and malignant obesity Tom Harkin's "Complete Streets" legislation is both good busi...

I've read recently that oil prices "now" are driven by "speculation" rather than "fundamentals". In other ...

I am so surprised by this shocking, impossible to predict, outcome: AMNews: March 17, 2008. CMS metric may prompt excessive antibiotic ...

Ever wonder how Homeland Security evaluates its security investments? Maybe you imagine dozens of super-sharp analysts, veterans and geeks...