December 2008
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“Instead, Bernanke and Paulson are running around with bags of money trying to...”
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Should We Penalize Liquidity Preference?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
November 2008
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SMS from Saikat: I just went to a book store that after some time i realized was a christian book store. So i was impressed when i say [sic] that they had the god delusion. But then i realized that they had it in the fiction aisle.
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Hacker News | Robots with lips and vocal chords →
I can’t believe I saw this headline and first read, “Robots with Lisp and vocals cords.”
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“Once the Pilgrims in the Plymouth Plantation abandoned their communal economic...”
– The Pilgrims’ Real Thanksgiving Lesson: Newsroom: The Independent Institute
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While figuring out this, I came across Safari Next Page, an script that does what is sounds like and takes you to the next page. I’ve mapped it to option-right-arrow in Safari and it works for at least Television Without Pity and The New York Times, which is amazing enough for me.
Is pagination still necessary? I’d say no, but having this makes it a lot more tolerable.
I do...
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Blair Waldorf the American Girl →
(I know it’s kind of silly to link to myself somewhere else, but I like the way posterous does galleries of images.)
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“I like a lady to be exclusive; I’m dying to be exclusive myself. Well, we...”
– Daisy Miller by Henry James
“Happiness. Another future abundance. I suppose it seems impossibly far off — but...”
– Seth’s blog » Blog Archive » The Four Abundances
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“Serena: sometimes it’s like she’s being criminally earnest, other...”
– Gossip Girl TV Show - Gossip Girl Recaps, Gossip Girl Reviews & Gossip Girl Episodes | TWoP
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“And so the “secret unlock code” during the height of the nuclear crises of the...”
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Keeping Presidents in the Nuclear Dark (Episode #1: The Case of the Missing
“Permissive Action Links”) - Bruce G. Blair, Ph.D.
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“But her own kiss was warm and loving, and she held him lightly, so that he...”
– Queens Play by Dorothy Dunnett, p. 168
“Sweden, for example, with one of the highest tax rates in the OECD, has school...”
– Why Redistribute Inefficiently? | The Distributed Republic
“It’s clever, like how when Bella sees Edward in science class for the first time...”
– FlickFilosopher.com: Twilight (review)
Rant: Twilight's Hidden Morality Plays →
The most ridiculous part might be that Bella Swan has a daughter named Renesmee.
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Rainwave Radio is my new favorite thing. It’s streaming video game music, and it’s been around for a while now, but for some reason I’m only now hearing about it. The listeners also get to vote on what will be played, which is pretty cool. iTunes won’t work (it’s in ogg format), but FStream has both Mac and iPhone apps.
“It would be wonderful if we lived in a world where there were these...”
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The Case for Global Warming Skepticism
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“What is the colour of that knowledge? Nobody knows, nobody can ever know, not...”
– The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh, p. 68
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A wounded, angry bear is loose north of here, and it has people terrified.
The bear has ravaged this lovely country, a booming capitalist enclave that worships America, relies on a much-praised flat tax and has uprooted corruption almost overnight (in part by firing every traffic cop in the country).
A main road here is named for President George W. Bush, who visited in 2005.
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“One solution to boredom on certain kinds of jobs such as polishing and vacuuming...”
– Zen and the Art of DeLorean Maintenance
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“Boredom means your gumption supply is low and must be replenished before...”
– Zen and the Art of DeLorean Maintenance
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“Gumption trap is defined as:
“Throughout the process of fixing the machine...”
– Gumption trap - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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“His first two sons are named Kevin, and the third is named Kevlar.”
– Kimbo Slice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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“Please remove the word “automagically” from flashvideo.admin.inc....”
– Please remove the word “automagically” | drupal.org
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“In that blog I mentioned I was working nights part-time (among other things) on...”
– Stevey’s Blog Rants: Ejacs: a JavaScript interpreter for Emacs
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“Dr. Irene Davis, a professor of physical therapy at the University of Delaware,...”
– Common Ground: Barefoot Hiking
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I was trying to decide whether to make an RSS or an Atom for a site feed today, so I did some internet research and found this opinion on the subject:
What many don’t know is that Atom (currently 1.0) was created out of frustration with the limitations found in RSS 2.0, so it is in fact superior to all other formats out there.
RSS 2.0 vs. Atom 1.0 - Which is the better syndication...
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“ntoshev: How can you teach concurrent programming without teaching sequental...”
– tjr on Hacker News (via tassadar)
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This conviction, that technological innovation will obviate the need to make any actual changes in the domestic economy and human geography, paralyzes intellects across the whole of American politics and culture. They imagine the future as a sort of Jetsons pastiche, where everything is the same, except that it flies.
http://whoisioz.blogspot.com/2008/11/same-but-its-different.html
Where...
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We Just Can't Know
Of course, we do not know what would have happened had fiscal and monetary policy been to provide a weaker stimulus, or none at all.
http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2008/11/lectures_on_mac_3.html
As my friend Mike pointed out recently, I love arguments of this form.
Also, my favorite ever claim that there “would be no way of knowing”:
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“The upshot is that if you judge Hoover for what he was against, instead of what...”
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Hoover Blasts His Opponents, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Tim Harford — Article — The stock-market... →
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“Both men were fair, but he thought that nothing in life could ever approach the...”
– Gemini by Dorothy Dunnett, p. 503
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“Together, they had engendered a form of articulate and genderless lunacy which...”
– Gemini, by Dorothy Dunnett, pp. 409-410
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“As so often before, the mystery of it overwhelmed her.”
– Gemini by Dorothy Dunnett, p. 407
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“‘D’ye know,’ said Tom Yare. ‘That’s exactly what...”
– Gemini by Dorothy Dunnett, p. 392
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“Inside the door, Simon de St. Pol stood with the boy at his feet, his hair an...”
– Gemini by Dorothy Dunnett, p. 378
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“Sod beauty. The messy significance of sorting out people.”
– Gemini by Dorothy Dunnett, p. 223
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“It was the highest satisfaction to her to believe Captain Wentworth not in the...”
– Persuasion by Jane Austen
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“Now I have done,” cried Captain Wentworth. “When once married people...”
– Persuasion by Jane Austen
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“In fact, as I have
long been convinced, though every profession is necessary and...”
– Persuasion by Jane Austen
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“For one daughter, his eldest, he would really have given up any thing, which he...”
– Persuasion by Jane Austen
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“I am not fond of the idea of my shrubberies being always approachable.”
– Persuasion by Jane Austen
“After trying almost everything from artificial insemination to having George...”
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Galapagos bachelor turtle struggles to be a dad | Environment | Reuters
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“I worry that mainstream Keynesian macroeconomics is little more than fancy...”
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Lectures in Macro, No. 2, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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SUPER OBAMA WORLD →
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“Cabinet Position: Secretary of Agriculture
Our Nominee: Dwight Schrute (The...”
– Photo Gallery - TV Shows & TV Series Pictures & Photos | TWoP 