March 2008
“A careful study of the annual statistics of suicides will show that nearly all...”
– “The Unseen Poor,” by Charles Dickens, All the Year Round, Nov. 22, 1884. Lapham’s Quarterly
Graveyard game: walk around until you die →
6.6 - Tokyo dog-rental service →
SOMEONE'S new year's resolution was "to cause less... →
Href affection for March 31st →
"The average Atlanta resident with a job drives 66... →
Loss of water permit threatens big oil sands... →
A history of the hangover. →
Weakness, Treason, and the First Epidemiological... →
“Transfer to money the properties of mind and spirit for which it often stands as...”
– Lapham’s Quarterly The echo’s of Marx in his 1844 unpublished Economic Manuscripts is chilling.
MILLIGRAMS » The Zyprexa Documents: Beyond Eli... →
“Here is a new release of the Zyprexa documents, free for download. They are contained within a single PDF document, the original TIFF filenames intact as bookmarks. It is 5,506 pages and slightly over 200MB (a CD is usually 700MB). Notably, this release allows you to search all the Zyprexa documents for words and phrases simultaneously, like any other text-based document. It has a...
“But why did I do it? I confess that I’m an unabashed Old Leftist who never...”
– Alan Sokal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Union urges CRTC to curb internet interference by... →
Linux becomes only OS to escape PWN 2 OWN... →
Epub’s Tall Shortcoming: How Annotation Needs... →
“It’s time for something a little lighter, and nothing cheers me up like a...”
– THE EXILE - The Comoros Coup Factory: Vive le Bob! - By Gary Brecher - The War Nerd
My New Ambition →
Your cheatin’ words →
Hype Machine Adds New Features →
Organic farmers lagging behind demand at the... →
Who Is Surprised by Economic Data? (part II) →
Michael Geist - Bell Secretly Throttling Wholesale... →
My answer? BOMB the TELECOS.
The Security Mindset →
“Clinton’s primary nod to Wall Street’s troubles was to observe that...”
– Hillary Clinton’s plan to fix the economy - How the World Works - Salon.com
“Opinions are really sharply divided,” Mr. Gendreau said. “Is this is going to be...”
– Wall St. Cheers Bear Deal and Housing Data - New York Times
Does Bear Have JP Morgan Over a Barrel? →
Japan Says US Financial Crisis Worse Than Its... →
“Still, women control only 3 percent of the roughly $1.9 trillion invested in...”
– Corner of Finance Where Women Are Climbing - New York Times
Bear Stearns Paraphernalia on eBay →
Israeli immigrant mathematician solves puzzle that... →
“Avraham Trahtman, a mathematician who also toiled as a labourer after moving to Israel from Russia, succeeded where dozens failed, solving the elusive “Road Colouring Problem.”“
Bear Stearns Paraphernalia on eBay →
Commodities Plunge Continues →
List of Twittering Librarians: who to follow →
You could add @quinndupont to that list, if you want my inane Twitter updates (private profile, ask for following). If not, these librarians probably have clever things to say, and Twitter is a great way to get dialed in.
Rebecca Granovsky-Larsen is pouting. Lest we... →
WatchMichael Bierut Talks Typography with ‘The Atlantic’ | New at Pentagram | Pentagram
Would You Pay An Extra $100 For An... →
SlySoft's latest AnyDVD HD release strips BD+ from... →
Pleasing Google's Tech-Savvy Staff →
CBC: Who Needs TV? →
“LittleDog,” the pint-sized alternative to the... →
9.3 - Adobe to develop an iPhone Flash player →
Michael Geist - CBC To Release Program DRM-Free... →
Oh my, Geist is reporting that CBC will start to release television media via bittorrent. THIS IS BIG! Now, maybe Bell and Rogers won’t traffic shape on BT use. Geist’s report: “Sources indicate that the CBC is set to become the first major North American broadcaster to freely release one of its programs without DRM using BitTorrent. This Sunday, CBC will air Canada Next Great...
WatchScary robot is so nimble it can recover from a “kick” (more like a push). (via Google Video)
“By Thursday, the drumbeat of worries over Bear had grown so loud that my voice...”
– Saving Wall St. (For Now) - New York Times
“Ultimately, though, action will be taken because there will be political...”
– America was conned - who will pay? | Business | The Guardian
A Generalized Run on the Shadow Financial System →
“Since the onset of the liquidity and credit crunch last summer this column has been arguing that monetary policy would be impotent to address such a crunch because, in part, of the existence of a non-bank “shadow financial system”. This system is composed of conduits, SIVs, investment banks/broker dealers, money market funds, hedge funds and other non bank financial institutions.”
The Fifth Blackbird: Some Thoughts on Economically... →