Sunday, October 31, 2010

A NYT job interview and capitalism 2010

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Emily told me of a  lightweight NYT piece on job searching describing the clever and industrious things a young man did to land a job in a ...

Apple's share price, market movers, and the latest market bubble

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Two fragments that I like to consider together. One is an anonymous comment on an Irish Economy blog called out by Paul Krugman ... What mar...

Greg Bear: City at the End of Time - A review

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I gave Greg Bear's City at the End of Tim e three stars; five for ambition, two for execution... Amazon.com: John Faughnan "John G....

Words we need to add to English

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In a list of novel words from around the world, I found six we should add to English, and three in bold I have added to a list of words I pr...
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Saturday, October 30, 2010

Is Quebec why Minnesotans drive on the right side of the road?

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It finally occurred to me to wonder why Americans, and especially Canadians, drive on the Continental (right) side of the road instead of th...

Lessons from the Cloud: Nobody loves your data like you do

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There's a lesson here worth sharing  in this personal story (revised from original post to correct and clarify) ... I now have about 50...
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Rally for Sanity - and The Enemy Within

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The  Rally to Restore Sanity was today. It went well . Emily and I would love to have attended, but most sane people our age are pretty roo...
Friday, October 29, 2010

My life with Amazon

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Amazon's  Improve Your Recommendations  list is a chronological record of purchases. The oldest item on my list of about 560 items is a ...
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Can Apple be sued for false advertising?

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On the Aperture site Apple claims that the move from iPhoto to Aperture is "designed to be seamless". That's certainly untru...

Lessons in Software: Aperture 3 and iPhoto 11

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The state of OS X photo management is mixed. It’s not so bad for customers who aren’t invested in iPhoto. Much of Adobe’s OS X software is...
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Monday, October 25, 2010

Google's computational thinking curricula for grades 6 and up

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A new way to torture your grade 6-12 child ... Google: Exploring Computational Thinking ... Use a CT approach to develop an algorithm for ca...
Sunday, October 24, 2010

Why we can't raise the retirement age to 70

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We live longer, work is less physical, and so we can raise the retirement age. That's the usual argument. Then there's this. Gasse...
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Lessons from Allais Paradox - making right choices

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DeLong refers us to  a summary of the Allais paradox and its relationship to the 2002 Economics Nobel . The bottom line is that humans fea...

Advertising

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The kids like FM pop radio. I don't mind the music, but I have to listen to the ads. That hurts, because half the ads are for goods and...
Thursday, October 21, 2010

The rational basis for climate change denialism

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I consider this a respectable and rational basis for denying that the earth's climate is being significantly altered by human greenhouse...