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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

No mention of Summer Glau, though, so it’s seriously deficient.

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Invaluable advice.

The concept of “sunk cost” and the need to eliminate it from decision-making is one of the most difficult, yet most necessary, concepts that accountants must learn.

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Yeah, well, they are Italians.

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And that is the most valuable thing. Information that is not indexed might as well not exist.

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This looks very, very interesting.

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Quick Checks for Violators Improve Officers’ Efficiency but Worry ACLU

Really — seems like anything that makes it easier to catch crooks worries the ACLU.

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As you traverse your favored metropolis, the Dash Express anonymously transmits information about its location and speed to a central server. Every other Dash driver does the same. Using this data, Dash can paint a stunningly accurate picture of traffic patterns. Have you ever been stuck in a jam and wished there were some way to look two miles ahead to see whether things are still ugly? Dash essentially does that for you.

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

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Brian May, guitarist for rock band Queen, completes Ph.D. thesis following 30-year hiatus

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

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Megan McArdle gives us some very interesting graphs about who’s producing and who’s not.

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Forensic examination of the crew’s skulls, which were found next the 16th century wreck in The Solent, has revealed that Henry VIII’s flagship was mainly crewed by foreign sailors, thought to be either mercenaries or Spanish prisoners of war.

More info here.

Megan McArdle fisks a bunch of lefty professors at Chicago whose undies are in a wad over possibly being associated with such a heinous figure as Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman.

Translated, “when we go to fashionable lefty cocktail parties in Venezuela, it’s embarrassing to admit who signs our paychecks.”

John Tierney is on the case.

For most of the year, it is the duty of the press to scour the known universe looking for ways to ruin your day. The more fear, guilt or angst a news story induces, the better. But with August upon us, perhaps you’re in the mood for a break, so I’ve rounded up a list of 10 things not to worry about on your vacation.

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It all started with Herodotus.

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A lot of people don’t seem to realize that.

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We have the technology.

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Cool, yeah, but would you trust your life to one?

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Words fail me.

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Not really news to anybody who pays attention, but that still leaves a lot of people.

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A pity they don’t still have keel-hauling.

But the Navy insisted that the dismissal was “absolutely not” related to the capture of 15 sailors and Royal Marines last year or to any personnel issues on board.

Too bad. He ought to have been dragged from his bridge in irons.

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I’d rather be comfortable than have friends. But that’s me.

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Hey, we only do useful information here.

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Hey, whatever works.

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The End Times are near.

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Wouldn’t mind having one of these. Kinda pricey, though.

Steve Sailer has some thoughts on the Toyota Prius, the wheels of choice for the progressive on the prowl.

After all, the Prius is very similar in shape (just smaller) to perhaps the most unfashionable car of the decade, the Pontiac Aztek (introduced in 2001, now discontinued). The picture above is of an Aztek, not a Prius.

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Some good news for a change.

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This is fascinating stuff.

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Who knew that centers are as brainy as quarterbacks?

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So that’s how they came to be wise men.

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This would appear to be very interesting.

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Hey, it might work.

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Sometimes the old ways are best.

The state of the art swaddling is a blanket made of pure merino wool, which absorbs and releases moisture away from the baby in warm conditions and insulates it when the temperature drops.

Of course, a trash bag works just as well, is easier to clean, and costs quite a bit less.

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Hint: Yes.

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Frozen better than fresh? The Only Organic bigots will NOT be pleased.

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Here’s a very interesting scenario:

The obvious future of in-store experience: you find something you like, reach into your pocket for a small device, scan the barcode, and the device tells you whether and where the same product is available for a lower price.

Steve Sailer‘s take on the whole second-language thing.

For example, even though India is growing in importance, it doesn’t make sense for Americans to learn an Indian language because there are 15 national languages in India, and everybody who is anybody knows English. In China, there are a number of wildly different-sounding dialects, and, besides, be serious, you are never going to get anywhere with studying Chinese. It might make sense to learn Japanese, since so few Japanese learn English, but the Japanese are creeped out by the sight of white people speaking Japanese fluently, so why inflict that upon them? Lots of 19th Century scholars in gloomy Europe fell in love with Arabic, with its beautiful alphabet, but America has its own desert, so we’ve never put much emphasis on Arabic.

Jerry Pournelle has come up with a great term — don’t know whether it’s original to him — to describe the parasites of the Overclass who live off of the rest of us: ‘tax eaters’ (as opposed to ‘taxpayers’). I love it.