March 2011
2 posts
The Internet Wishlist →
All devs should start here rather than with some of the bullshit thats being made these days.
November 2010
1 post
October 2010
3 posts
“It became clear that people don’t much like stern-faced do-gooders telling them...”
– The Way We Live Now - Is Michelle Rhee’s Revolution Over? - NYTimes.com
Has ANYONE ever liked this? This sort of style is what hampers the Democrats, unfortunately.
James Surowiecki on Procrastination : The New... →
rentagreenbox.com →
This is pretty awesome!
September 2010
5 posts
“What makes people capable of this kind of activism? The Stanford sociologist...”
– Twitter, Facebook, and social activism : The New Yorker
Perhaps I’m contributing to the problem, but this is a good-ass article.
“What better evidence can there be of Africa’s burgeoning potential as a consumer...”
– Walmart’s $4bn bet on Africa’s consumers | beyondbrics | FT.com
Books of The Times - Isabel Wilkerson’s Sweeping... →
Marginal Revolution: Does the well-off law... →
CLASS WARFARE. But seriously, we need to reduce payroll and income taxes and add a VAT, more capital gains taxes and better enforcement on super rich people. People in this man’s tax bracket pay more than their fair share. The superrich have their loopholes and 47% of the lower income people pay no federal taxes aside from Social Security/Medicare so they really shouldn’t even have a...
January 2010
8 posts
Italy’s African Heroes - NYTimes.com →
Ball Square Café (4/5) on Yelp →
A-mazing! The food I had was nothing extraordinary, but it was perfectly done breakfast food without too much grease and at a good price. I appreciate the coffee bar and the ridiculous friendliness…
Editorial - It Isn’t Working for Anyone Else -... →
Trade war trade war trade war
allAfrica.com: Nigeria: Shell to Quit Country This... →
Wow, this is pretty major.
Google Applies to Become Power Marketer - Bits... →
WAT? Maybe I can follow my dream and work at the goog after all.
Letter From London - My American Friends -... →
European Wax Center (5/5) on Yelp →
Love this place! LOVE LOVE LOVE! It’s cheap! (even without the first timers deal or the membership, it’s insanely cheap for what a lot of places want for eyebrow and hoo-ha waxing) It’s sanitary and…
Don't lose perspective on Yemen | Marc Lynch →
I can’t even bring myself to read all this news on Yemen, it’s so ridiculously over blown. There was an article on Yemen in the FP a few months ago that was a pretty good indicator…if I can figure out that Yemen is a hotspot by reading a glossy magazine that’s sold at Barnes and Noble in PINOLE, why are the US and UK governments only NOW getting the idea? And acting like...
December 2009
29 posts
“The golden age of refining — if it ever existed — didn’t last very long,” said...”
– Oil Refiners’ Fortunes Sink Along With Gasoline Demand - NYTimes.com
Gas price spike a comin’.
China fears climate change openness | John Lee... →
This is a tad more plausible than the previous one. (I am just catching up on all the Copenhagen postmortems)
How do I know China wrecked the Copenhagen deal? I... →
I am not sure I believe this 100%, but it is certainly compelling.
Clueless in Costco →
YES! F-ing dumb ass New Yorkers.
Layer Cakes as Southern-Style Stacks of Tradition... →
The Times is on POINT with these Christmas baking articles. My grandma (from Alabama) never made a layer cake, but the article is making me hungry and miss her at the same time: pound cake, coconut cake, 7-up cake were always in the house. Although Grandma was more of a great cook than a baker….all these cakes were bought from the store! :D
In Pittsburgh, It’s ‘I Do’ and Then ‘Pass the... →
awesome, these are my kind of people!!
“They’re going to wait until the last hour of the last day and just as the other...”
– China and U.S. Hit Strident Impasse at Climate Talks - NYTimes.com
Yay Barbara!
The Union Rooms (3/5) on Yelp →
Why am I, an American, writing the first review of this place?! Can someone else come and write something? Being right across the street from the station and being a Wetherspoons (a.k.a. one of the…
East Asia (4/5) on Yelp →
Cheap cheerful Chinese, deliciously devoid of grease with fast, friendly, free delivery! Crab rangoons, 5 spice tofu, Thai rolls, hot basil noodles are all amazing. Four stars because it’s still…
Salon 2 (5/5) on Yelp →
This is where I get my hair did. Wayne is a great, funny guy and does a relaxer touch up and a roller set on my very thick, very long hair for under $90, which is kind of hard to find. He is also…
Tu Y Yo (4/5) on Yelp →
I take back my snobby Californian declaration that there was no decent Mexican food in Boston: this is some serious Mexican food. If you don’t believe me, believe the two Mexicans in my party who…
“A solution to climate change is closely related to population management....”
– China wants population reflected in outcome of climate talks_English_Xinhua
Ok, but you have to admit, this is a bit creepy coming from China
“Yet the world must remember that it was not simply international institutions -...”
– Obama’s Nobel Lecture | Foreign Policy
Thank you, Mr. President!
“To see how energy efficiency works to curb energy-demand growth, imagine if the...”
– FT Energy Source| ExxonMobil energy outlook underlines the importance of efficiency
Hmm, I was rather impressed by the presentation they made here last year. Exxon is surprisingly (at least to me in March of last year) a very serious and forward looking company in many respects.
Copenhagen, EPA, and climate change: Obama's false... →
I agree with the Monitor somewhat. I’m not sure good ol’ command and control environmental regulation is the best way to deal with carbon on a national scale. Yet I was in favor of the California EPA getting the right to regulate tailpipe emissions. I’m still confused.
BBC News - 'Fake fingerprint' Chinese woman fools... →
ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff its Gattaca
In fear of 'Eurabia'?
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‘Whitening’ the Résumé →
More obviousness….
JBLU: 5.83 +0.13 (2.28%) - JetBlue Airways... →
What is up with the airline industry? I was surprised to see so many positive numbers when all these companies (with the notable exception of Southwest) were hemorrhaging cash. (Delta especially) Looking at the 10 year stock chart, it matched up more neatly with the financials, but maybe people are buying because they think it’s hit the bottom? I still don’t understand the stock...
Jared Diamond - Will Big Business Save the Earth?... →
Suck it tree-huggers….oh wait. People always want to cap on big business for…moral(?) reasons. The truth is that these three companies and ones like them can do this sort of thing because 1) they have the cash and market share to afford it and 2) they’re so high profile that they might lose more money by not doing it. It’s smaller enterprises that don’t have the...
THE LAST DAYS OF THE POLYMATH →
“Probably the most unusual via ferrata in the eastern part of the Dolomites is VF...”
– Via ferrata - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
So…I know where I’m going on my next vacation.
Geography of a Recession →
FT.com / In depth - The UN’s carbon trading system... →
Really interesting tool with many statistics on the CDM displayed any which way you like.
In Job Hunt, College Degree Can’t Close Racial Gap →
On one hand, no duh, on the other hand, depressing
“Sooner or later an open referendum process will get even a very smart,...”
– Marginal Revolution: Swiss minarets
True, yet disturbing quote.
WatchBeyoncé - Single Ladies + original Gwen Verdon -
Fosse is everywhere!!
November 2009
32 posts
Arthur Cecil Pigou Provides a Guide to the Great... →
Link from the Marvelous Ms. May