Charles Moore | Is Conservatism In Crisis? – Capitalism Should Not Be Run By Capitalists | The European Magazine – The Opinion Magazine Mervyn King said that “the big banks are global in life but national in death.” They come home to die, and we have to pay for their funeral.
Monthly Archives: March 2012
Charles Moore | Is Conservatism In Crisis? – Capitalism Should Not Be Run By Capitalists | The European Magazine – The Opinion Magazine
2012.03.26 – 15:32
Blog: Wired Science: Particle-Wave Duality Shown With Largest Molecules Yet
2012.03.26 – 15:07
Particle-Wave Duality Shown With Largest Molecules Yet Ars Technica, Wired Science
How I Went From Writing 2,000 Words a Day to 10,000 Words a Day
2012.03.26 – 10:17
How I Went From Writing 2,000 Words a Day to 10,000 Words a Day not all butt in chair time is equal. For example, those days where I only got one hour to write I never managed more than five hundred words in that hour. By contrast, those days I got five hours of solid […]
An open letter to college admissions committees
2012.03.25 – 14:47
An open letter to college admissions committees “The solution I propose is comprehensive exams at the end of each course, much like Advanced Placement exams, that thoroughly and objectively distinguish students on merit alone. The emphasis in each classroom would then shift from fighting the teacher for high grades to cooperating with the teacher to […]
Guernica / A Common Faith
2012.03.25 – 13:17
Guernica / A Common Faith My point is that lacking the terms of religion, essential things cannot be said. Jefferson’s words acknowledge an essential mystery in human nature and circumstance. He does this by evoking the old faith that God knows us in ways we cannot know ourselves, and that he values us in ways […]
New Statesman – Religion for Atheists: a Non-Believer’s Guide to the Uses of Religion
2012.03.25 – 11:32
New Statesman – Religion for Atheists: a Non-Believer’s Guide to the Uses of Religion The fixation on belief is most prominent in western Christianity, where it results mainly from the distorting influence of Greek philosophy. Continuing this obsession, modern atheists have created an evangelical cult of unbelief. Yet the core of most of the world’s […]
Twitter: @shanselman
2012.03.24 – 22:10
shanselman An engineer walks into a bar and orders 1.0E20 root beers. Bartender: “That’s a root beer float.” Engineer: “Make it a double.”
Twitter: @BMcCarthy32
2012.03.24 – 21:55
BMcCarthy32 Sometimes the air ducts and computers will talk to you, which makes you so tired that the boss gets mad? #japan http://t.co/7ZazeGrs
Blog: Dave Winer’s “Scripting News” weblog: Blogging newness is goodness
2012.03.24 – 14:52
Blogging newness is goodness (author unknown), Dave Winer's "Scripting News" weblog
Exclusive: A’s Super Scout (and Moneyball Bad Guy) Grady Fuson Gives the Lowdown on Life in Baseball and A’s Prospects to Watch « A’s Farm
2012.03.23 – 18:02
Exclusive: A’s Super Scout (and Moneyball Bad Guy) Grady Fuson Gives the Lowdown on Life in Baseball and A’s Prospects to Watch « A’s Farm Really good interview
Why Patent Lawyers Are Clueless About the Software Industry – Megan McArdle – Business – The Atlantic
2012.03.23 – 15:17
Why Patent Lawyers Are Clueless About the Software Industry – Megan McArdle – Business – The Atlantic As a result, there’s a deep and persistent rift between the community of computer programmers, who are overwhelmingly hostile to software patents, and patent lawyers who seem mystified by all the outrage. The job of a patent lawyer […]
Comment: Sergeant Bales’s Shame and Ours : The New Yorker
2012.03.23 – 13:02
Comment: Sergeant Bales’s Shame and Ours : The New Yorker
Blog: Dilbert.com Blog: The War on Parents
2012.03.23 – 11:52
The War on Parents (author unknown), Dilbert.com Blog
Six Ideas for Saving Bay Area Transit | SPUR – San Francisco Planning + Urban Research Association
2012.03.23 – 10:19
Six Ideas for Saving Bay Area Transit | SPUR – San Francisco Planning + Urban Research Association
Blog: Wired Science: ‘Bird Man’ Hoaxster Comes Clean on Dutch Television
2012.03.22 – 18:23
‘Bird Man’ Hoaxster Comes Clean on Dutch Television Dave Mosher and Daniela Hernandez, Wired Science
YouTube: Sebastian Seung: I am my connectome
2012.03.22 – 18:11
Sebastian Seung: I am my connectome TEDtalksDirector
Twitter: @CSNBaggs
2012.03.22 – 18:11
CSNBaggs Lincecum not happy w/fastball. Said his balls were at his waist and he wants them closer to the knees. I told him to wait a few decades.