Tuesday, November 30, 2010

XMind: Software made in China for OS X and Windows

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I am a niche market; I need software that few people care about. For example, I need software to dynamically manage concepts (ex: “ideas”)...

Celebrating the war for the preservation of slavery

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It’s been 150 years since the war for the preservation of slavery began … Secession Defended on Civil War Anniversary - NYTimes.com … Ja...
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Monday, November 29, 2010

Who’s betting on China’s bubble blowout?

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China will be the third great bubble blowout in a bit over ten years, following the .com and leverage bubbles. The world, of course, will go...
Sunday, November 28, 2010

wikileaks: An unstable China

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Reuters' hit list of this week's top WikiLeaks was remarkably uninteresting except for this one ... Factbox: WikiLeaks cables offer ...
Saturday, November 27, 2010

Destination Cross country resort-class trails within five hours of Minneapolis St. Paul (MSP)

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Nordic skiing (cross-country for Americans) has been in decline since the 1970s. Too warm. Last winter, though, was pretty good in MSP. The...
Friday, November 26, 2010

Price Discrimination and Black Friday

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My family doesn't normally shop on Black Friday -- the savings aren't worth the pain. Today, though, I took the boys to a local nord...
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Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Perhaps man was not meant to fly after all

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Most things do not end the way I once imagined. The buildings don’t collapse because the foundation is gone. They sag. They fade. For a long...
Sunday, November 21, 2010

Speculation: The corporate ecosystem and American stasis

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To speculate is to "form a theory or conjecture about a subject without firm evidence" [1]. My speculation tagged posts are thing...

The obvious is shouted, the interesting is whispered

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Perhaps it was always this way, and it is only with time that I see it. Or perhaps our media is less interesting, more controlled, than it o...
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The iPhone iAd framework and parental controls

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iOS devices (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad) come with parental controls. Android OS, interestingly, does not . This is rarely discussed [1]. Pare...
Saturday, November 20, 2010

Climate Change 2010: Plan B

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It was always a long shot, but 2010 was when we knew that plan A for greenhouse gas management had failed. Plan A was Europe, China and the ...

Wetware routers and intermittent consciousness

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Today's Carl Zimmer article gives new insight into the nature of consciousness. Even in neurotypical brains decision tasks create a psyc...

Rajini Vaidyanathan, Gordon Brown and me - strange loops in 2010

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I'm killing time at DC's Union Station, waiting for my train to BWI and home, when I'm accosted by a young woman with a note pad...

Michelle Bachman and Jesse Ventura: Fruitcakes are not the worst

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Minnesota has an undeserved reputation as a sober sort of place. So it surprises some to learn that  the Tea Party's Michele Bachman ha...

The phone call is dead - sort of

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Phil Bradley comments on a Tech Crunch essay on the death of the phone call . That seems strange to me, since I spend a lot of time on the ...