hiatus mark 2
Having just cleared out my queue, I’m going to be gone for a while. Again. Bye!
Nov 30th
let us ponder this
Richard Lawson (of Gawker and reality fame): I’ve been watching all this Palin craziness over...
Nov 29th
supply, demand
“Tonight, Tonight”: Dayton and the production crew initially had problems locating...
Nov 29th
phrases like this are so disingenuous
Populist anger has been fanned by a growing perception that the Treasury has lavished generous...
Nov 29th
This animal eats garbage to create compost.
Nov 29th
failures of materialism
My eight-year-old son, Joel, comes into my office to ask if there’s a worse swearword than...
Nov 29th
seriously, this is the most...
Michael Mann, from one of the stolen climate emails, via Seth Roberts: [B]e a bit careful about what...
Nov 28th
ugly America
Intern Juli, a little while ago: According to this extremely patronizing CNN story—in which...
Nov 28th
a useful reduction
Eliezer describes “intuition” as “subcognitive black boxes giving us...
Nov 28th
U.S. Bancorp is the best company, for...
Without doubt, [U.S. Bancorp CEO Richard Davis] said, there were “some bad actors” in...
Nov 27th
revenge of the nerds
“Jock tax” is a colloquial expression referring to the trend among tax authorities toward...
Nov 27th
This happened.
Nov 27th
go ahead and rub it in, you autistic...
Tyler Cowen: If you’re feeling a little down today, and looking for something to be thankful...
Nov 26th
“Ye gods! It’s almost as if there was a *person* inside...”
— MM
— MM
Nov 26th
bunch-of-guys theory, vol. CXXIII
The November 12 document is especially revealing not only for its omissions but also for the...
Nov 26th
a little late to the party, eh, New York...
Selling Cupcakes The small-business world is going cupcake-mad. But is it a viable business?...
Nov 26th
“a sad but true attractor in the evolutionary psychology of...”
— a phrase found in a recent...
— a phrase found in a recent...
Nov 25th
“An ironic/funny tat can come in many forms: a piece of...”
— SWPL
— SWPL
Nov 25th
"It's a joke!"
Via MR: Racial attacks like the ones behind the arrest of 32 suspects in Denver are part of a...
Nov 25th
I thought there’d be more.
Nov 25th
derrinyet:
A thing I got recently.
Don’t pretend...
Nov 21st
“You [Malcolm Gladwell] shouldn’t be in awe of David J....”
— SS
— SS
Nov 19th
I'm just going to quote myself here
Me: You know what's going to be the worst thing if it ever happens?Mrs. K., diligently cooking sausage: What?
Me: Buying a car.
Mrs. K.: Yeah...
Me: We have to study how cars work for like six months before we can even start to look at different kinds.
Mrs. K.: Yeah...
Me: Hopefully by then there'll be a space elevator or something to get around.
Mrs. K.: Yeah...
Me: Or maybe the roads will be so choked with dead bodies that we won't even have to drive.
Nov 15th
a fine line
sunplusnightplusjess: while i wouldn’t want to profit off of doom, i wouldn’t mind being a prophet...
Nov 15th
intern Juli does it again
Swiss scientists are gearing up to make another particle sacrifice to the Large Hadron Collider...
Nov 15th
apparently a slogan
“Nothing’s more real than Reddi-wip.”
Nov 15th
this zing is like that zing
Pinker on Gladwell: He provides misleading definitions of “homology,” “saggital plane” and “power...
Nov 14th
via riotclitshave
Nov 14th
Watch
endasher:
When you mean it, I’ll believe it; if you text it, I’ll delete it.
…how can she...
Nov 14th
all this has happened before, and all...
Time, Apr 23, 1934: [The] Frazier-Lemke Bill would give U. S. farmers a release from heavy mortgage...
Nov 13th
The sexiest woman that Soviet Russia could afford.
Nov 13th
I'll bet
Defining who is and who is not too tangential for the U.S. to kill can be difficult. (#)
Nov 12th
guys all the way down
Yesterday I heard the CEO of Capital One talk about his outlook for the credit-card business. As he...
Nov 12th
great moments in employment
After falling asleep last night with the lights on, I woke up late. Then I fell asleep on the subway...
Nov 12th
zing
boss [out of nowhere, via email, presumably referring to a spreadsheet I made]: What the hell kind of font is Verdana???me [via Blackberry because I am "off-site"]: A normal and standard one designed for on-screen readability at small sizes
me: Also what ikea now uses
boss: Um I don't shop at Ikea too much nowadays
Nov 11th
“Nor, on the other hand, does Waldfogel consider the best...”
— Tyler Cowen
— Tyler Cowen
Nov 10th
a veritable H of Ls
Another On Power quote, noted down four months ago: In 1814 the France of the departments seemed to...
Nov 9th
a hell of a compliment
George Saunders can “convert his sorrow about mankind into exquisite comedies of...
Nov 8th
Watch
I don’t care. This is the best thing.
Nov 8th
“There certainly are times when it’s appropriate to...”
— EY
— EY
Nov 7th
“Examined in the light of science, human behavior looks to be...”
— Bertrand de Jouvenel, On...
— Bertrand de Jouvenel, On...
Nov 7th
is it out of line
to wonder whether stupid people can experience love?
Nov 6th
“Due to a mistranslation, Soviet reports on Enrico Fermi...”
— Wikipedia via Kottke. Russia!...
— Wikipedia via Kottke. Russia!...
Nov 5th
these sorts of stories are still out...
Welcome to Biscayne Landing: Instead of a bustling new community, there are just the two towers with...
Nov 5th
“Risk appetite is back, so it is time to worry about the...”
— WSJ, “Heard on the...
— WSJ, “Heard on the...
Nov 4th
“Q. Do you believe the conspiracy theories about 9/11?
A....”
— Ran Prieur, “9/11...
— Ran Prieur, “9/11...
Nov 4th
"at the very least"
Today at work I received a small package containing a self-published financial-advice book entitled...
Nov 4th
intertemporal intrapersonal game theory
Keyholeznow is inordinately pleased that Keyholezyesterday spent all that money at Ikea before the...
Nov 1st