April 2009
160 posts
Fuck. Swine flu hits Wisconsin.
Sabato: “[The GOP] are afraid of their own base. They’re afraid of losing nominations and primaries and conventions.” http://bit.ly/uceHN
Brain Gain →
Even with the aid of a neuroenhancer, you still have to write the essay, conceive the screenplay, or finish the grant proposal, and if you can take credit for work you’ve done on caffeine or nicotine, then you can take credit for work produced on Provigil.
Different than performance enhancing drugs in sports how?
14 pitchers? Cleveland, you’re doing it wrong.
Empirical Legal Studies →
Sara Benesh + Christopher Zorn + others
Writing the last quiz of the semester.
Dead Like Dead
Marco is right:
If you enjoyed the Dead Like Me TV series, absolutely never see the follow-up movie. Wow, that was just about as awful as they could have possibly made it.
It was one of those times when I wished Amazon would allow zero star ratings. What I don’t understand is why so many people seem to think it’s okay or even good. On Amazon at the moment there are more five star...
I miss the streak already.
You can send Javier Lopez to the same place you put Penny.
Pronk is the dumbest nickname.
Brad Penny is a living advertisement for the Clay Buchholz era.
Why does it feel like Brad Penny is going to squander this lead?
Rob Neyer on design:
[T]hey sure don’t make S.I. covers like they used to. I’m not even going to go back to the real beauties of the 1960s and ’70s. Look at this David Cone cover again. Not including the date and the name of the magazine, there are 14 words. It’s clean and dramatic, something you might want to get signed and framed. And Zack Greinke’s cover? Nearly...
No Certain Night or Morning by Home Video →
Arlen Specter becomes Dem !!!!! http://bit.ly/62Tc2
Would you say that he caught the Blue Flu?
“I have not represented the Republican Party. I have represented the people of...”
– Arlen Specter
“Because only babies and crazy people get to pretend that reality actually...”
– Merlin Mann
Toronto, ON : 9/2/2009 - 9/6/2009 Shows on JamBase →
Slim pickings.
Milwaukee’s own Lakefront Klisch Pilsner received three stars from Asimov today( http://bit.ly/oVXSx). Can’t say that I am big pilsner fan.
11!
Feast of Wire by Calexico →
new to eMusic?
“Hey it wasn’t Dave Roberts stealing second in Game 4 of the 2004 ALCS, but this one was the best theft since” (Cafardo http://bit.ly/qm1Hz)
Ellsbury just stole home! Andy Horse Face looks like he is going to cry. Wheels coming off, Drew doubles. Let’s go Bay!
Todd Nitschelm once gave me a mixed tape which had Maceo Partker’s “Pass the Peas” on it. I still can’t listen to the song at low volume.
Listening to Hockey Night (Keep Guessin). You know an album is good when nearly every song convinces you it was better than the last one.
16-11 is quite a score.
Why was Beckett still in there !?!??!?! This is the downside of having Masterson in the rotation. #redsox #mfy #tito #slugfest #giantglass
Wisconsin - “Live Like You Mean It.” http://bit.ly/xCAhi
“Bark like a dog. A big dog. Hop on one leg.”
Wife: “Javier [Lopez] is pitching like he won’t be happy until he hits someone in the crotch.”
“I tied my own shoes once. It is an over-rated experience.”
How do you like your hero now? So you can tell people to torture if it’s your honest advice? http://bit.ly/zZwUZ
Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears →
Daytrotter Session
Tornado Drill. #uwm #fun #ugh
In defense of Twitter →
Does anyone understand the internet and society as much as Jason Kottke?
“[E]phemeral chit-chat is the stuff that holds human social groups together.”
– Jason Kottke, In defense of Twitter
Race, Racists, and Journamalism →
When there is data, he wants a simple story. When there is a simple story he wants data.
Oh well. At least he’s built cool websites. More than I have done.
Game Theory Explained by Avinash Dixit →
Never So Divided? →
Andrew Gelman: “Similarly, views of partisans on specific issues have diverged. Here are average positions of self-declared Democrats, Republicans, and independents on abortion.” Nice graph in…
I feel the absence of @sethkjolly from the internet already. Someone get the man an iPhone. It’s a lonely web without Old Red.
Off to learn the kids.
Why is Microsoft encouraging the browser to be the OS? Won’t it enable Windows users to leave them? (via @gruber) http://bit.ly/16YOVj
When Gmail goes down a little piece of my soul dies.
Rabbit Songs by Hem →
rec from grad student
AJPS Guidelines for Manuscripts →
“Interviews have their flaws, of course — everybody lies, after all. But...”
– Aaron Swartz
And with that my respect for Swartz as an intellectual is gone.
The Use Of Reconciliation 1980-2008 →
Nyhan on the curiosity that is the US Senate