September 2009
18 posts
How Races and Religions Match in Online Dating « ... →
Yay for dataporn! I love charts and graphs.
Back To The Ship →
I’ve taken too much LSD, I’ve got to get off this planet. I need to go back to the ship. I’ve never taken so much LSD in my life.
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Good article about Keynes, great quote. →
It used to be, Keynes says, that wealthy men just thought investing was the manly thing to do. They weren’t going to sit around and calculate what kind of bonds yielded the greatest expected return. Bonds are for wusses. They were real men. They were going to take their money and build a railroad.
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The Swinery: Mom & Pop butcher shop open in West... →
Just down the street from me. I’ll have to get in there and check it out. The article also mentions a book by Robert Spector on local “Mom and Pop” businesses. I’m pretty sure he was one of the parents in my carpool in high school. Weird.
Confused Justine Bateman Attacks 'Human Waste' on... →
I generally don’t like Internet celebrity gossip, but this is hi-larious.
(via Instapaper)
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The Oak Island Money Pit →
I’ve heard of this place before, but I ran into an article on it this morning thanks to the wonderful, Instapaper-affiliated Give Me Something To Read. It’s like something out of your wildest, piratest dreams. It’s like an adventure where Tom Sawyer and Indiana Jones team up. And people have been trying to excavate this thing for two hundred years! I’m actually pretty...
Kurt Vonnegut explains drama →
"The Government"
squashed:
Try something. Every time somebody complains about the evils or failings of “the government,” strike out “the government” and see what results.
Here’s an example from Sarah Palin’s WSJ editorial:
Common sense tells us that the government’s attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones.
Attempts to do anything often have undesired and unforeseen consequences. The...
Photos of Normandy in 1944 and 2004. →
Pretty incredible set of pictures. Makes the history seem very much alive.
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“Comprehensive health insurance is such an ingrained element of our thinking, we...”
– http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/200909/health-care
“In January 2008, Tama was promoted to “super station master” in a...”
– Tama (cat) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There’s a sad comment on the state of social progress in Japan.
Stuff Christian Culture Likes →
I thought the Stuff White People Like blog was stupid-tacular, but this is highly entertaining. I’ve been going through it all morning.
Pioneer anomaly →
This somehow came up at trivia night at the bar last night. The Pioneer space probes we launched years and years ago aren’t proceeding quite as we’d expect them to. Something is causing them to slow down faster than the Sun’s gravity ought to be. It isn’t by much, but at the interplanetary scale it adds up.
“It is not ‘your’ Facebook profile. It is... →
“SFJ: Do you ever hear from your fans about audio fidelity? JG: We had a few...”
– Dithering: Jonny Greenwood: Sasha Frere-Jones : The New Yorker