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Tech Help
Quickie one here, for anyone with some familiarity with iTunes. My computer crashed causing the iTunes library to become corrupted. iTunes restarted and reassembled its database. However ~15GB of podcasts were left in limbo. iTunes can see them but they don't appear anywhere in iTunes (so when I sync my iPod, the computer says "you need 15GB ( Read more... ) -
photo meme
From the nifty photo meme ( dreadwinaard's is the most recent and has the questions). I don't generally do these sorts of things, but I did poke at some of the images on google, and was surprised.
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Books that Sound Interesting
Rather than doing my standard thing of buying a whole bunch of very interesting sounding books (that will lay around unread), I'm trying to provide a reference to myself of why these things should be read (and I will then purchase the books as necessary). If anyone else has any thought on these books and authors, I'd love the input.
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Bruce Bueno de Mesquita (plus others)
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is a very interesting political scientist from NYU, with many interesting thoughts on autocracy vs democracy. Probably the best introduction is the great collection of his interviews at EconTalk (I'd start with the second podcast on Democracies and Dictatorships). So he speaks on Israel versus Palestine:
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Why Marrying For Money Is Never a Good Idea
Greg Mankiw (respectable right-wing economist) vs. Brookings economist Jason Furman on current SCHIP bills.
Financial Models for Underachievers: Two Years of the Real Numbers of a Startup (interesting information on the financing of a startup) -
On Photography
Somehow, I've been browsing a lot of incredibly cool photography related stuff online, and frankly, much of it is brilliant and well worth reading. This might have something to do with the fact that I got a new camera (or have a nifty low-end DSLR that I can borrow with regularity). The following sites are really interesting (but given my ( Read more... ) -
How Is Your Civic Knowledge?
Surprisingly, from my mum: http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/resources/quiz.aspx Test your knowledge of civics, political philosophy and American history. Reply with your score ( Read more... ) -
Best Article of the Day
Robin Hanson, economist at George Mason University (also rampant blogger at Overcoming Bias) argues that we should reduce health-care spending by 50% (which would lead to an immediate 8% wage increase for everyone, and would have no net effect on health).
Am I being too allegorical? Then let me speak plainly: our main problem in health policy is ( Read more... ) -
Linkage
Awesome article found via del.icio.us:, an Ask Metafilter question: What single book is the best introduction to your field (or specialization within your field) for laypeople? The requisite comment thread at reddit also has some more good suggestions (if your profession were a whiskey taster, the book would be Whiskey: The Definitive World Guide ( Read more... ) -
On Wisconsin ...
From the interesting book A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide (discussing William Proxmire, a senator who campaigned heavily for the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide):
He ... moved to Wisconsin, home of the iconoclastic populist Robert LaFollette and a state that columnist Mary McGrory likened ( Read more... )