Wednesday, November 04, 2009

The magical bomb detecting wand saves Iraqi police

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When you read this story, there are 3 things to keep in mind. The first is that US money, directly or indirectly, pays for these “wands”. ...
Tuesday, November 03, 2009

The Abyss. Averted?

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A must see graph: The story so far, in one picture - Paul Krugman . Team Obama deserves our sincere gratitude Alas, it's far from over. ...
Monday, November 02, 2009

Marcia Angell on the corruption of physician expertise

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I missed this Jan 2009 quote when it came out. I tracked it down after reading a post Jacob Reider shared (emphases mine, I remember that sh...

The hero of the marketarians ...

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Any Rand is the heroine of the marketarians ... Two biographies of Ayn Rand. - By Johann Hari - Slate Magazine ... In her 70s Rand found her...
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My son destroys 2010 Outback sales

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My son singlehandedly destroyed 2010 Subaru Outback sales. It was a considerable accomplishment. Until late 2009 the Outback had been selli...

Curious world and Google Wave

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For some time I've been (Google Reader) following a man named Thomas . Some months ago he liked something I liked (say that three times...
Sunday, November 01, 2009

Reading my writing translated

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I have knacks, but not for language. I still remember a bit of the old country however. Which is why it's neat to try to read a blog p...

Wanted: email redirect to google reader note shares

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I'm not so keen on Twitter , but I do like Google Reader . Lately, I'm particularly keen on GRs shared posts, notes and microbloggin...

Facebook has the eBay disease - the Farmville story

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eBay went downhill because they made money off scams . They didn't run the scams, but they didn't fight them that hard either. eBay&...

Bad genes, bad people and a crisis of punishment?

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If every there was a slippery slope, it began the day we allowed that a two year old who'd pocketed some candy should not be sent to the...

Goodbye to Discworld - Unseen Academicals

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My Amazon review of Terry Pratchett's latest, and perhaps last, book: Amazon.com: Unseen Academicals (Discworld) (9780061161704): Terry ...
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Saturday, October 31, 2009

Contribute your Google Data Liberation suggestions

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Google's esteemed data freedom team accepts suggestions through the Google Data Liberation moderator forum. Please vote on the items you...

My latest take on Twitter

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A while ago a friend asked me to explain Twitter to him. I've been giving it some thought since, today I posted my most current thoughts...
Friday, October 30, 2009

On vaccines

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Via Daring Fireball, a superb essay on vaccines . And that was "just" chickenpox. Moderns have no idea of what diphtheria was like...
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Thursday, October 29, 2009

Midwest Skijorers Club

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Fourteen years ago I authored one of the very first skijoring pages on the WWW . Heck, it might have been the first in English. We didn'...