I’ve just launched PageRankGraph.com - so what on earth is it?
A few days ago I sat down with the team at Blekko, and as we were geeking out together I realized they’d done something…
I’m at DIA in route to Boston to meet with our friends at @edialog - strange: TSA was randomly swabbing hands
The state of Wisconsin has gone an entire deer hunting season without someone getting killed. That’s great. There were over 600,000 hunters. Allow me to restate that number. Over the last two…
I enjoyed brightkite -foursquare without gaming- but way early. They’ve now built @forkly, a mobile restaurant service http://t.co/M1FPEq8
Israel is fighting probably her greatest single disaster in her 62 year history. A fire continues to rage in the Carmel Forest on the outskirts of Haifa. The fire has destroyed thousands of…
I have a theory about “dumb blonde syndrome”, the idea that beautiful women are dumb. Folk psychology says that everybody gets the same number of character points to distribute among their attributes, so some people get intelligence while others get beauty. But reality says that beauty is correlated with
But I remember taking a class with a stunningly beautiful woman, who every week would loudly make some inane comment or question, and not realize it was inane because no one would tell her so. And I developed the theory that beautiful people don’t learn to self-censor, because they don’t need to. Anybody else would get ridiculed when they said something stupid, and learn to be more shy.
Maybe this also applies to smart people. They’re more likely to be correct, and so less likely to be made fun of when speaking their mind, and so less needful of learning how to phrase a question in a way that reduces their chances of being made fun of.
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RT @DenverEric: Happy Chanukah day 1 & night 2. I will be hanging out with the #IgniteChanukah crowd tonight in #Boulder. Thanks @JRideo …
Apparently, Congress just before the election appropriated $900 million to build part of a high speed rail line in CA. Rather than focusing either on LA or SF, Congress apparently appropriated the…
Well, as usual, the progressives have the rights and roles of private individuals vs. government exactly backwards, from Kevin Drum:
As I said earlier, I’m on the fence a bit about whether an…
TaxProf Blog points to a Wall Street Journal piece by W. Kurt Hauser showing a hard fact that has yet to sink in on most budget-balancers: Since World War II, federal revenue as a percentage of…
RT @virusbtn: One would wish companies would be more open about #phishing attacks they fell victim to; ReturnPath sets a good example ht …
