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Well, why not….

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Of course they don’t shop at Goodwill, the women said.

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These are funny. Trust me.

Alex Tabarrok says No.

Alex Tabarrok explains it all to you.

We’re better off without it. In this, as in so many things, FDR’s government did exactly the wrong thing.

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I’d love to have one of these things today.

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You’ll never outfox the fox.

Jerry Pournelle also has some things to say about statistics and systems analysis.

American have got to understand that moving money around in circles is not actually production; that most “services” in the service economy aren’t actually need or producing much — did we need 100,000 sales agents for high risk mortgages that put illegal immigrants into $400,000 houses on interest only loans? Sure there are real service jobs, like mechanics and plumbers, who take things that don’t work and make things that do work, but that’s not the same as selling bad mortgages to people who shouldn’t be borrowing money in the first place.

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Wilson writes: “Advice to anyone about to travel to Thailand is simple. Before you go, sort out a decent photo of yourself, preferably taken at a party smiling and celebrating the joy of being alive, because the newspapers and TV news bulletins will want something to accompany the article about your tragic death.”

My kind of guidebook.

And about Machu Picchu, he writes: “It’s a 6,000-mile journey – 12 thrombotic hours on a plane followed by a bladder-bursting seven-hour bus ride – to see something you could watch Michael Palin climbing up on TV – all in the company of the 400,000 intensely irritating gap-year students who think it’s totally awesome, dude.”

Preach it, brother.

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Before you begin hanging around with white people, you should know that all white humor comes from three sources: The Simpsons, Monty Python, and The Onion.

John Derbyshire, Patron Saint of Dyspepsia, takes a break to review a book.

Cat owner? Likely Democrat. NRA member? Probably Republican. Mailings and phone calls can then be targeted more accurately. Health professionals, especially when treating older patients, are now monitoring such things as weight, body temperature and pulse by having a computer follow data streams from sensors on clothing or even from sensor-laden “magic carpets” laid around the house. Disturbing patterns prompt the computer to signal a problem. The Numerati are taking over dating services, too. How do you find that special one in a million? By mining the data of the million. How do you improve your own chances of being found? By the same techniques that companies use to show up first in a Google inquiry — “search engine optimization,” now a flourishing industry.

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Boy, there’s a shocker.

People get paid for this. From tax money, i.e. your wallet. Take whatever action you think is appropriate.

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This point is stressed by project leader Professor Mark Spigelman, of University College London. ‘I don’t think we’ve got new diseases today; we have got variations of old diseases,’ he told The Observer.

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(Especially if you do something stupid and get a Darwin Award. But they don’t mention that in the article.)

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Now that is clever.

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Perhaps that explains the federal government.

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Basically, Master Bladesmith Takamura will be partnering with Gordon Ramsay to produce, market and sell 1,000 high-end Chef’s knives.

Don’t ever say we don’t post useful stuff here.

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Wouldn’t mind having one of those.

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I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked.

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Steve Sailer points the way.

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Standing astride history yelling “Basta!”.

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Well — there it is.

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Jerry Pournelle has both a Kindle and a Sony Reader, and finds that he uses the Kindle almost exclusively.

I just wish the Kindle weren’t so butt-ugly.

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Everything I really needed to know I learned from Dungeons & Dragons. (For example: In any group at least 30% are idiots who will do their best to get the rest killed.)

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Well — there it is.

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Adjusting for various demographic factors, the economists found that children with more access to TV had better test scores than those with less. The effects were especially keen for kids in homes where English wasn’t the primary language or parents had little education.

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Slow news day.

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The black and white, E Ink device features a wireless link to download content, room enough to store “hundreds of pages of newspapers, books, and documents,” and a display more than twice the size of the wee Kindle while suffering just half the ugly.

Gotta like that.

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That would be amusing.

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Wait till the Muslims find out about that. I see an assassination in his future.

Lord Winston is moving the research project from Britain to America after British regulations and a shortage of funding prevented experiments here. The pigs will be bred in Missouri.

Land of the free, and home of the brave.

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The chain-restaurant theory of international relations.

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David Frum, a charter member of the doom-and-gloom wing of the Republican Party, doesn’t always get the right answers — but he usually asks the right questions.

Measured by money income, Washington qualifies as one the most unequal cities in the United States. Yet these two very different halves of a single city do share at least one thing. They vote the same way: Democratic. And in this, we are not alone. As a general rule, the more unequal a place is, the more Democratic; the more equal, the more Republican. The gap between rich and poor in Washington is nearly twice as great as in strongly Republican Charlotte, N.C.; and more than twice as great as in Republican-leaning Phoenix, Fort Worth, Indianapolis and Anaheim.

And a lot of his observations are spot-on. The Democrats are the Party of Inequality, and have been ever since they found that a conspiracy of the Overclass and the Underclass against the middle class was a winning political formula.

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We have the technology.

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I’ve always thought that we can do better than huge bird-killing fans.

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Maybe, or maybe not — but it’s still an interesting idea.

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Let that be a lesson to us all: Skinny people are dumbos. Knew it all the time.

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We have the technology.

Steve Sailer is always worth reading.

There’s a line in the Stuff White People Like book to the effect of: “Is there something you like? I mean, is there something you really like? Well, whatever it is, there’s a white person who likes it more.”