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An occasional examination of highly contested questions, usually resulting in no useful answers.
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I throw thy name against the bruising stones
Worried about a housing bubble, top Goldman executives decided in December 2006 to change the firm’s overall stance on the mortgage market, from positive to negative, though it did not disclose that publicly. @#$@#$#@oops. that should have be...
Bricklin on tools
Dan Bricklin, walking his dog, ponders the difference between an "agent" that decides what you should see, and a tool:It isn't the end result (e.g., only reading what I want to at the time I want to) that's the problem but how the tool interfaces wit...
Living Stories will have to overcome dead resistance
Living stories should introduce temporal duration into what has been a staccato news form. Sample.Coursey: Living Stories improves the newspapers ability to deliver news-by-topic, which has proven difficult for newspapers to master. Indeed. Let's ask...
It is risen, and it eats your brain on stale crackers
Abraham Joshua Heschel often used the word "embarrassment." "The cure of the soul," he wrote, for example, "begins with a sense of embarrassment, embarrassment at our pettiness, prejudices, envy, and conceit; embarrassment at the profanation of life....
Tweet Update
Murd and Huff at the FTC hearing become the Ping and Pong, Mutt and Jeff, Clik and Clak of my TweetAnything that makes search less direct only fucks itself. To wit....
Goodman treated like Mooseshit at Vancouver Border
Apparently you're Osama Bin Laden if you oppose the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver. Amy Goodman, who says she didn't even know the Olympics were being staged there, experienced invasive treatment at the hands of border guards as she tried to enter the co...
