January 2011
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Gil Meche Tosses Away $12m →
It must be nice to be rich enough to feel that guilty.
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“I’m not even sure what to say about this.”
– Josh Marshall’s complete live blog transcript for Michele Bachmann’s response to the State of the Union address
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“Without [Marginal Revolution], or something comparable, this publishing...”
– Tyler Cowen on his new ebook
Maybe the future has an RSS feed after all?
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“Without invisibility or the support of his 54 Twitter followers or the...”
– Jeff Pearlman, who tracked down one of his online haters (via Waxy)
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Understanding Uncertainty →
Andrew Gelman recommends five books about statistical thinking. He cleans up the interview with a Murders’ Row of Great American Thought:
Bill James once said that you can lie in statistics just like you can lie in English or French or any other language. Sure, the more powerful a language is the more ways you can lie using it. There are a bunch of great quotes about statistics. There’s...
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Bring on the Minor Leagues →
Joshua Tucker at the Monkey Cage responds to the Economist’s critique of the “over-production of PhDs” by academia with Mike Piazza and the difficulty faced by talent evaluators:
Piazza was drafted in the 62nd(!) round of the 1988 baseball draft. He went on to become one of the (if not the) game’s best hitting catchers, and is a sure bet for the Hall of Fame. Without a...
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“Some people love John Cage, other people would rather listen to nothing at all.”
– Alex Tabarrok on art and beauty
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“Nothing is so perfect that it can’t be complained about.”
– from the description of Hypercritical a new podcast from 5by5 hosted by Dan Benjamin and John Siracusa
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The End of Search and the Last Query →
Marco Arment on the plummeting quality of Google web searches.
If Google searches become more useless, what happens to the ad revenue and the overall business model?
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Intellectually Indefensible →
Rob Neyer describes the distinction between amphetamines and steroids as performance enhancing drugs.
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Members of the U.S. Congress Who Have Died of ... →
A morbid link (via KD).
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Huckleberry Finn: Slave Edition →
SeoulBrother on race and language. Sad, insightful, inspiring.
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It's the Ecosystem, Stupid →
Marco Arment on the iPad and would-be participants in the market for tablets:
To be competitive, a newcomer to the tablet software market needs to replicate or sidestep the need for nearly all of Apple’s major efforts, including synchronization of media and data with Windows PCs and Macs, integration with popular web services, an integrated payment system that customers will actually use at a...
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Three Recipes →
Mark Bittman offers three basic recipes which are all cheap, easy, and infinitely expandable. I completely agree with his claim that regular preparation of these types of dishes will make you a decent home cook. Similar dishes defined the cooking I did for myself and roommates in college, but substituting Bittman’s salad for roast chicken (because you don’t win friends with salad).
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