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It's a small, small, small, small world
via Chris Blattman's Blog by Chris Blattman on February 11, 2008
Last week I blogged on vacation, from Morocco's ancient imperial city of Fes. A couple of days later I received the following e-mail:I was catching up on my google reader this morning and read that you are traveling in Morocco. I was wondering if by chance you were in an internet cafe in Fes a couple of days ago? I thought I saw someone who looked like you, according to your website. I was...
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Forget the Red State / Blue State labels; the real question...
via kottke.org by deronbauman@gmail.com on March 05, 2008
Forget the Red State / Blue State labels; the real question is Wal-Mart State or Starbucks State. (thx, jason) (link)
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What is the aggregate cost of trying to beat the stock market?
via Marginal Revolution by Tyler Cowen on March 09, 2008
Investors collectively spend around $100 billion a year trying to beat the stock market. That’s the finding of a rigorous effort to measure the total costs of Americans’ efforts to surpass the returns they would have received by simply holding a stock index fund. The huge price tag helps explain why beating a buy-and-hold strategy is so difficult.Here is much more, and from Felix Salmon. ...
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Backyards, Beware: An Orchard Wants Your Spot
via NYT > Most E-Mailed by STEVEN KURUTZ on March 20, 2008
In an era of local food, an increasing number of Americans are turning their yards into mini orchards, even in dense urban areas.
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Yahoo To Flag Malware Sites In Search Results
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on May 05, 2008
Tomorrow Yahoo will launch a partnership with McAfee and will integrate their Site Advisor malware scanning product into Yahoo search. The most dangerous websites are simply being removed from search results. Yahoo is also flagging less dangerous offending sites to warn users of specific problems that have been reported from those sites. Example warning messages include “Warning: Unsolicited...
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Why the 'Biggest Drawing in the World' Is Probably Fake
via Wired Top Stories by Gadget Lab on May 26, 2008
Swedish artist Erik Nordenenkar claims to have created the "biggest drawing in the world" by sending a GPS-equipped plastic briefcase on a squiggly, looping trip around the world via DHL, tracing out an unbroken line across the planet. Here are five reasons why it's almost certainly a fake.
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fMRI can tell what noun you're thinking of (sometimes)
via TED | TEDBlog by (author unknown) on May 29, 2008
... magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to visualise the brain activity of nine volunteers, as they concentrated on 60 different nouns. This 'training set' consisted of five words from each of 12 categories, such as animals, body parts, tools and vehicles.The technique Mitchell's team used is of interest to word nerds:Mitchell analysed how these words are used with the help of a "text c...
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Library of Lost Dreams
via Marginal Revolution by Alex Tabarrok on February 21, 2008
Dutch, a kind of archaelogist of recent America, takes us through the abandoned Detroit School Book Depository. This is a building where our deeply-troubled public school system oncestored its supplies, and then one day apparently walked away from itall, allowing everything to go to waste. The interior has been ravagedby fires and the supplies that haven't burned have been subjected to...
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Bill Gates
via Quotes of the Day by (author unknown) on March 25, 2008
"Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning."
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An interesting view on bank regulation
via Marginal Revolution by Tyler Cowen on May 02, 2008
It starts with this:...there are few crises I have known from the inside that would not have happened if only there was more disclosure. People knew that sub-prime was a poor risk – it is called sub-prime, after all.Then it moves here:The alternative model rests on three pillars. The first recognises that the biggest source of market and systemic failure is the economic cycle and so regulation...
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