TheStar.com | Entertainment | Cultural resolutions: bigger, better, closer, stronger "No offence to those of you who buy all your books online, but whenever anyone asks why I invariably prefer to purchase my reading matter in a bricks-and-mortar establishment, I have one simple answer: because I don’t want to live in a world without bookstores."… Continue reading links for 2009-01-04
Author: Chad Orzel
Data Presentation Nerdery
A couple of smallish items that came up in recent days, that can be grouped together under the general heading of “data presentation oddities.” First, over at Crooked Timber, Kieran Healy tries out a semi-hemi-demi-log plot for a graph of WPA expenditures. The problem he’s trying to address is the gigantic difference in magnitudes between… Continue reading Data Presentation Nerdery
God of Thunder 1, Satan 0
The world is a very strange place: An intruder received a taste of divine reckoning as he was chased from the Edinburgh flat he was breaking into by a man dressed as the Norse god Thor. The housebreaker leapt from the first-floor window of the building to escape Torvald Alexander who was dressed-up for a… Continue reading God of Thunder 1, Satan 0
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Refuted economic doctrines #1: The efficient markets hypothesis at John Quiggin "I’m starting my long-promised series of posts on economic doctrines and policy proposals that have been refuted or rendered obsolete by the financial crisis. […] Number One on the list is a topic I’ve covered plenty of times before (in fact, I was writing… Continue reading links for 2009-01-03
Donald E. Westlake, RIP
Many years ago, when I was a kid growing up, I used to be a regular at the Mary Wilcox Memorial Library in town, and tore through most of their kids’ books before mounting an assault on the adult section. The librarian at the time, Mrs. Sinclair, was a terrific woman who knew pretty much… Continue reading Donald E. Westlake, RIP
2008 in Blogging
Because there’s no better form of procrastinatory blogging than making traffic graphs: That’s how you know it’s Science! Unlike the last couple of years, 2008 did not see any gigantic spikes in traffic, despite a couple of posts that I thought would really have some juice. Shows what I know.
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So it goes.: A Day in the Life "I wake up to the sun’s early morning glow or from the Luganda streaming through my mosquito net, which I’m not sure. It is another day in Uganda, a handful of kilometers beneath the equator. I can easily recall the first days in Africa when the sun… Continue reading links for 2009-01-02
Thursday Space Commander Blogging 010109
Captain’s Log, Stardate 010109 USS BabyPod Space Commander SteelyKid reporting “Our mission to explore the dining room is progressing well. It is almost time for Baby Blogging, and–“ “Commander, sensors have detected a ship!” “On screen!” “What the heck is that?
Hey Hey 2009
2008 was a rotten year for a lot of people, I know, but I’ll always have a soft spot for it, because it marked the beginning of the SteelyKid Era. There was plenty that sucked about 2008, but not nearly enough to outweigh that. (There will be Baby Blogging later today, but the Empress of… Continue reading Hey Hey 2009
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slacktivist: Clean shoes "Getting down on his knees and taking unclean things in his hands was more than just a pattern with Jesus — it was something like an obsession. This goes beyond a mere motif or refrain in the Gospels. Jesus looked at the purity codes and the holiness codes and the long lists… Continue reading links for 2009-01-01