Archive for August, 2008
Saturday, August 30th, 2008
Power to the people!
There is a fantastic story at http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/30/13315/6849/408/580309
right now about how a man made a cheap, but brilliant, political add, secured the funding, and is now going to get it put on the air.
Contrast this with Don Draper and Nixon of the ‘Mad Men’ era.
Power to the people
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Friday, August 29th, 2008
Folk Numeracy
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=why-our-brains-do-not-intuitively-grasp-probabilities
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Friday, August 29th, 2008
Why do we still have lectures at University
http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2008/08/why-are-we-here.html
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Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Stop attacking my language!
This reminds me of the brilliant Albert Brooks rant about the devil in Broadcast News — “He will just bit by little bit lower standards where they are important. Just coax along flash over substance. Just a tiny bit.” You see it all over the place now, just the slightest exaggeration of language — a [...]
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
How to get to my (and mine alone) heart
(James Heckman, a Nobel laureate who critiqued the (Obama’s) campaign’s education plan at Goolsbee’s request, said, “I’ve never worked with a campaign that was more interested in what the research shows.”)
Obsessed with the data….first the first time I really heart Obama and am a bit worried because if there is anything I have learned about [...]
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Help people based on class, not colour
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/08/27/reich_commentary/?refid=0
I agree with this, COMPLETELY. If you make Affirmative Action about poverty it will still certainly hit the minorities that are currently targeted, plus hit poor whites, who definitely need help as well.
Furthermore, you remove a major argument against it, having to do with ethnic divisions and diversity. Imagine if you were a poor [...]
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Tony for President
http://www.inews3.com/play.php?first=Tony&last=Cohen
I didn’t do it….love the back tattoo!
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Economics Haiku
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/an-economic-haiku-contest/#comment-729674
Mine is
Waste not want not so
we really shouldn’t wonder
why many suffer
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Most cliched posters for Uni
http://www.collegehappenings.com/college/28-most-cliche-dorm-room-posters/
I had Scarface and the Pulp Fiction
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Daily Show confirmation on China
so Philip Pan on Aug 13th episode of the Daily Show said that the Chinese media is primarily used for the effort of bolstering internal support, and not so much with external image…so well done to China regarding the Olympics within this narrow substratum of ’success’
