5 rules from every Chuck Norris movie. Lessons from Arnie movies. Top 10 actors who die in movies (a lot) (massive spoiler alert). Top 10 actors who play villains. Top 10 iconic movie villains.

Internet trolls are likely to be sadists: the news that many trolls take pleasure in your pain is hardly surprising.

Internet at the new Chez Snake & Lorenzo will be connected sometime Friday. Normal email service will resume then. Until then, please be patient.

Well, the great Mediterranean research trip is underway. N and I have made it to Dubai. Emirates has been a pleasant way to fly so far.

There was a certain amount of Internet device franticness Friday night, but a massage at Chadstone and at chauffeur driven car to the airport was a great starting point.

The internet was not online at chez erudito for a few days. (Router and modem died, then getting the new router-modem up was a bit of a saga.) But back in communication now.

Hong Kong economist Yue Chim Richard Wong's blog is a fine source of clear-language explanation of economic thinking and current events. He provides an excellent summary of Market Monetarism here and a great short history of the emergence of the Chicago School of economics here.

Other economic blogs I can recommend start with Scott Sumner's The ( Read more... )

Went to an entertaining and informative CERC seminar about Amadeu Abril and the introduction of the .cat top level domain. (Some of the academics were clearly a bit bemused to be also told that there is a proposed .xxx TLD: the Oz Govt is clearly not amused. Via lokicarbisThe presenter, Peter Gerrand, gave a nice history of the domain name system (DNS) and ( Read more... )