Archive for June 2005

Me on NPR on stopping the finance “brain drain”.

Strange Bloomberg Headlines: Huggies Price Cut Shows Why Bond Market Backing Bernanke Considering QE3 – http://t.co/CRH83C57 -> 20 Mule Team Canyon – http://t.co/6bz27lIo -> Chancellor: ECB ‘saves’ banks as economies sink – http://t.co/N583wxkg -> Weather Extremes : Where does the Deepest Snow on Earth Accumulate? http://t.co/AgqE2xGq ->

And …. Vinny wins! #BabyNamePostitsOnStreet http://t.co/pXu781R0 -> Artificial Inflation: The True Story of Trends in Sina Weibo. (arXiv:1202.0327v1 [cs.CY]) http://t.co/1s6lSvU8 -> Good question. Not far away. RT @Just1GOLDEN: @pkedrosky who will be the company with a trillion dollar mkt cap first? -> The Kama Sutra, on BBC's In Our Time http://t.co/dSLOp2Ld ->

Cover of current Economist magazine is faux Facebook page. Clever.

Where was I that I missed season 2 of BBC's Sherlock series had started? Is this still 2012, or did I miss that too? -> If only this ran on moose dung, but still: Wood-burning iPhone charger – http://t.co/7garpgnz -> Why the Early U.S. Didn't Go the Way of the Euro zone – http://t.co/YvlypwNa -> [...]

Sht Barefoot Runners Say – YouTube.

QotD: "Piracy is the new radio". — Neil Young http://t.co/Snf7uajT -> Local fun. RT @BreakingNews: California's San Onofre nuclear power plant unit shut down after potential leak – @LANow -> I often misread "the future of content" as "the future of contempt". I'm not so sure anymore that they are different things. -> One interview [...]

/via Earlyups

The Human-Environment Dialog in Award-winning Children’s Picture Books (Source) In Afghan war, rate of post-injury survival rises (Source) Fingerprints of a Monster Quake (Source)

Nicely done Super Bowl PSA ad from my colleagues at Kauffman Foundation.

NYT: Cracking the code in "The Shining", from the Holocaust to faked moon landings http://t.co/40ZrtpQh -> Only now? RT @RWW: Blogging Declines Across the Inc. 500 http://t.co/wriEOPPf -> Bay Area Technology Professionals Can’t Get Hired as Industry Moves On – http://t.co/VNKJlYpn -> California budget problems has state contemplating abandoning a highway – http://t.co/9GPnOB8w ->

w = 2*t, where w = # of glasses of red wine required at home later, and t is time in hours at Dave & Buster's at bday party for 8 yos. -> NYT on the boulevard of busted predecessors that RIM must navigate to make it back – http://t.co/ZSpaFVlv -> Audi's e-tron Spyder Diesel-Electric [...]

What the fk is a "stealth data investment fund", & why is that not as stupid an idea as it sounds? http://t.co/I1A52Prl -> Rick Bookstaber: The Twilight of the Leisure Class http://t.co/fvDXm1PN -> Took this yesterday in BC: What happens when I'm in a hurry to get to fresh powder – http://t.co/yKZjckUk -> Whoa, best [...]

Today went through my annual exercise of unsuccessfully signing up for lunches at upcoming TED. Zero luck. Again. -> IRT @TreeHugger: What happens when a man tries to live solely on those foods advertised on television? http://t.co/DqeLVOr1 -> Vancouver showing off today in vertiginous mid-winter fashion : the Lions loom like volcanic, white sno-cones. Damn [...]

Gaddis, Pynchon, and Mistaken Identity – http://t.co/grt2mvBx -> I'm so damn helpful that sometimes I just want to kiss me. -> Mostly for the title: Econophysics of a religious cult: the Antoinists in Belgium [1920-2000] http://t.co/lkndYLKA -> Photo set: Salvaging the TK Bremen – http://t.co/oiB7U1rj -> "Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just [...]

Favorite anagram for new RIM CEO Thorsten Heins: Shit Enthrones. -> Traveling. Volunteers? RT @jholston: Can @pkedrosky read this and please translate for humanity? TIA. http://t.co/TlAQrvK5 -> Didier's finish at Kitzbuhel this weekend. Such a great moment. http://t.co/d2zG4qH6 -> Retiring Didier Cuche Sets Record at Kitzbühel – http://t.co/V9PwuZm2 -> Imagine if drastic change required. Whew. [...]

Computing probabilities in the license plate game http://t.co/p4B6vOol -> How 1920s Auto Shows Sparked a Color Revolution: Echoes- http://t.co/b8Vmi77k -> Latest SSEC animation of the river of moisture hitting US west coast. Looks weirdly alive. http://t.co/KJIsG5fM -> Writer Michael Lewis in conversation with Graydon Carter, 1/8 – http://t.co/lCeDgtII ->

.@davidhfe Totally glad Wikipedia is back. Its absence on matters like electromagnetic weaponry was palpable. in reply to davidhfe -> You know you needed this: List of electromagnetic projectile devices in fiction – http://t.co/RPPfsjT2 -> Year ago, but … the mystery of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom/Schmitz – http://t.co/DPkuKmC6 -> Whoa, in retaliation for Megaupload bust, [...]

“Do your work for six years; but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your friends does not hinder you from being what you have become.” – Leo Szilard via THE 60-YEAR JOB: FREEMAN DYSON | More Intelligent Life.

GRL: A recent and abrupt decline in the East African long rains http://t.co/B6wbooiw -> PNAS: Global risk of big earthquakes has not recently increased http://t.co/ff1JcRwb -> Cheap Trick, Surrender. Live at Budokan. And you lovely people thought I didn't care about you. http://t.co/NA08N0aE -> Benford's Law, and worldwide illicit financial flows http://t.co/g6ppa5a5 -> Turntable For [...]

Intriguing new paper: The leading digit distribution of the worldwide illicit financial flows Benford’s law states that in many data sets the overall distribution of the significant digits tends to be logarithmic so that the occurrence of numbers beginning with smaller first significant digits is more often than those with larger ones. We investigate here [...]

Samsung: We are not buying RIM! Will you please listen? We are not buying RIM, do you understand? Honestly! RIM bull: Only someone buying RIM denies their buying.Samsung: What? Well, what sort of chance does that give me? All right! I am buying RIM! RIM bull: They are ! They are buying RIM !

Shit Skiers Say – YouTube.

QotD: "If I had this [voice-controlled TV], I'd read a lot more books". http://t.co/j2WsxkHz /via @emilychangtv -> Oye. RT @Esquiremag: So this happened on Jeopardy just now: http://t.co/vrXosIOi -> .@boblesko No, it's for a presentation I'm working on. Don't ask. in reply to boblesko -> Reading that Klingons supplanted Romulans as foes in original Star [...]

Good reading from New Scientist on Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster. Why was this massive ship so close to shallow rock outcrops? Mark Staunton-Lambert, technical director of the London-based Royal Institution of Naval Architects, says this is the main question investigators will want answering. GPS and sonar instruments should have warned of the danger, he [...]