July 2011
19 posts
“It’s difficult to see how it could have ended otherwise. Virtually no Democrats...”
– Democrats will lose now. But they can win later. - Ezra Klein - The Washington Post
Sawickipedia says: And that is the #batshitcrazy part of the negotiations. Republicans complete failure to see the long game - that in fact they have no leverage at the end of 2012. Hence why the compromise of some...
“Yet if disaster is an outside risk in America, it is an odds-on likelihood in...”
– America is merely wounded, Europe risks death - Telegraph
And the Fiddler plays while Rome burns… Euros and their sacrosanct summer vacations. #thisisnotgoingtoendwell
“If cuts continued into September without either side blinking, the knock-on...”
– America is merely wounded, Europe risks death - Telegraph
Sawickipedia says: Holy crap - NV spends 50% of it’s state budget on interest costs?!?!?! MI 40%?!?!?! Wow we have some f’ed up fiscal houses at the state and local level to fix. There is a lot of fiscal/debt indigestion to work...
“Rachel’s 9th Birthday Wish Rachel Beckwith refuses to quit. When she heard about...”
– Rachel’s 9th Birthday Wish - EastLake Sammamish
This happened locally here in Seattle and Rachel tragically died last night. I feel so awful for her and her family.
May her memory help thousands via Charity:Water.
As her family and pastor said - any gift will help. Go here.
Update on the...
“Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation think that some scientific breakthroughs are...”
– The Toilet Challenge — Marginal Revolution
In general I love the do things better attitude of the Gates Foundation. Fascinating challenge.
“But most of all, the war on the goldfish market is about class. The liberals of...”
– San Francisco goldfish ban exposes the pathology of America’s bourgeois liberal nutjobs – Telegraph Blogs
“Rather than create drastic salt policies based on conflicting data, Alderman and...”
– It’s Time to End the War on Salt: Scientific American
“Based on wild extrapolations…” - yeah that usually works out.
“With respect to Kevin Rose, you should no more move your blog to Google than...”
– Post by Danny Sullivan from Mobile
(Ironically I am posting this on tumblr instead of my self hosted WP blog) and analogously brands are building facebook brand equity instead of their own domain brand equity at the same time.
“For instance, a study published in February 2010 in the New England Journal of...”
– It’s Time to End the War on Salt: Scientific American
Please note the word “CONJECTURE”.
“This week a meta-analysis of seven studies involving a total of 6,250 subjects...”
– It’s Time to End the War on Salt: Scientific American
I love how more and more real science is showing that supposedly common wisdom science is actually a bunch of bunk. Much like how a low fat diet actually is less heart healthy then a high fat low carb diet.
“Amazon has so far been mum about its plans, although Jeff Bezos has all but...”
– Report: Amazon prepping for big sales of its tablet, from the start - GeekWire
AndroidNoGoogle is about to get a huge US sponsor. Gotta believe Facebook ends up w/ it’s own AndroidNoGoogle variant at some point as well.
“There was a lot of concern about the Fukushima radiation a few months ago, but...”
– Cliff Mass Weather Blog: Fireworks Air Quality Alert!
#goodmath
“The mistake that straight people made,” Savage told me, “was imposing the...”
– Dan Savage on the Virtues of Infidelity - NYTimes.com (via felixsalmon)
Too bad Dan Savage is completely wrong - please refer to just about any sociology research study on the western family structure and sexual mores. For middle class folks monogamous “marriage” has been the norm in...
““The political class was never accountable - it floated above the people,...”
– BBC News - Greece: What’s burning is consent
J.K. Rowling on Taxation →
rafer:
sawickipedia:
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mattgalligan:
An excerpt from The Times.
I chose to remain a domiciled taxpayer for a couple of reasons. The main one was that I wanted my children to grow up where I grew up, to have proper roots in a culture as old and magnificent as Britain’s; to be citizens, with everything that implies, of a real country, not free-floating ex-pats, living in the limbo of...
“The Senate Finance Committee was unable to consider trade pacts with South...”
– Republican Trade Boycott Derails Swift Vote - Bloomberg
Our elected bodies are full of third graders…
(via tedr)
more and more we resemble the classic italian parliaments from the 60’s to the 90’s then I would have ever wanted/hoped to admit.
theMattSmith: I wouldn't want to be just joining... →
tedr:
emptyage:
themattsmith:
I joined Tumblr in February of 2008. More than HALF of the people I follow now are people I started following in the first 6 months of using Tumblr, mainly because we had something in common- we were using Tumblr when basically no one else was, we were probably compatible personalities.
That’s not just not the case anymore. I’m not necessarily lamenting that...
“By not being a 99% committer, I’m always able to make a decision, deal with the...”
– The Dynamics of a 99% Committer
One of the reasons I think @benhuh and I get along and work well together is that I don’t think neither he nor I are 99% committers. We tend to look at data, make decisions and not let emotional backlog get in the way.
And that likely help explains why I...