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Ceramic microneedles to make injections painless

13th January 2008

Read it. A neat trick — if it works.

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Francis Crick, James Watson’s DNA partner, was also guilty of IQ-race crimethink

13th January 2008

Steve Sailer is always worth reading.

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Car Loan Finances Show People Living Beyond Their Means

13th January 2008

Read it. My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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The Decline of Classical Languages

13th January 2008

Read it. It marches hand in hand with the decline of civilization.

Everyone who uses “data” with a singular verb ought to be taken out into the courtyard and shot.

And it’s coming. It’s coming.

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Radio-Controlled Thermostat Lowering In Electric Shortages

13th January 2008

Read it. Just another example of liberal fascism.

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Lunch with the FT: Christopher Hitchens

13th January 2008

Read it. Apparently Hitchens has stopped smoking. You can believe as much or as little of that as you care to.

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IDS to offer up floating data centers?

12th January 2008

Read it. An intriguing idea.

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CAIR Representative Refuses to Condemn Stoning

12th January 2008

Read it. My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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Singapore: “Automatic Stabilizers” Done Right

12th January 2008

Read it. Singapore doesn’t get near the respect it deserves for its achievements in practical economics.

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Markets in everything, food fight edition

12th January 2008

Read it.

Have you wondered how corporate scandals can go on for so long?:

Philip Soergel, a parent who complained to Howard schools administrators about the principal’s offer, said: “We were aghast. I had never heard of this. Kids are getting these kinds of lessons in how to tattle on one another.”

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Fred’s Fired Up

12th January 2008

Read it. Go, Fred.

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The Republican Party is in a mess. The answer is surprisingly simple

12th January 2008

Read it. A view from abroad.

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Terror suspects can’t sue Pentagon

12th January 2008

Read it. Judges upholding the law. When was the last time that happened?

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Virginia Attorney General Supports Breakaway Anglicans

12th January 2008

Read it. The people can leave, you see, no problem, but God forbid they should take their church property with them.

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The End of Sprawl?

11th January 2008

Read it. What I’d like to see is an editorial by somebody who doesn’t favor people living cheek-by-jowl in crowded inner city tenements, which is the alternative to “sprawl”. Why is it that Regressives want to turn back the clock to where people had no individual transportation freedom? Is individual freedom such a threat?

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Innovation Is A Process, Not A Burst Of Inspiration

11th January 2008

Read it. An important point that bears repeating. Far too many people thing that “innovation” and “invention” are synonyms.

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Whistle-blower?

11th January 2008

Read it. Whoa … Reuters may have a sense of shame after all. But probably not.

Notice how they published one of the more unhinged of the mail they undoubtedly got on the subject, just to point out that they were being magnanimous toward the Unwashed.

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Giuliani Staffers Skip Paychecks

11th January 2008

Read it. Is it just me, or does Giuliani not look like the ideal Lex Luthor?

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Rich Kid Syndrome

11th January 2008

Read it. “We live right now in a culture of unprecedented, voluptuous wealth.” Well, some of us do. And some of us like to pretend that we do for the sake of magazine articles.

The British upper class had to deal with this problem for hundreds of years. Surely they would be the first resort fo data on what works and what doesn’t. But I guess the American overclass is just too narcissistic.

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The Division of Personality is Limited by the Division of Labor

11th January 2008

Read it.

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Who’s Crying Now?

11th January 2008

Peggy Noonan takes a look at Hillary and Barak.

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Washington Today

11th January 2008

Inside Politics.

Inside the Beltway.

Inside the Ring.

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Unpaid bills halt wiretaps by FBI

11th January 2008

Read it. I guess Federal employment goes to the lowest bidder, too.

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East Africa’s Tall vs. Average War

10th January 2008

Steve Sailer is always coming up with interesting stuff.

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Iran’s Game of Chicken in the Gulf

10th January 2008

Read it.

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TankChair gets updated, goes where no wheelchair has gone before

10th January 2008

Read it. If I ever wind up in a wheelchair, this is the wheelchair I want to wind up in.

I still say it needs a 50-cal mount. (Or a Phalanx! Yeah, that’s the ticket.)

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Movie Trailers: The Final Cut

10th January 2008

Pogue has the inside skinny.

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Australia To Test Cars That Won’t Let You Speed

10th January 2008

Read it. Well, sometimes Australians aren’t all that lovable.

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Bruce Schneier Has An Open Wi-Fi Network

10th January 2008

Read it. As do I.

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Africa Human Population To At Least Double By 2050

10th January 2008

Read it. Take whatever action you think is appropriate.

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Testosterone Causes Aggressive Humor?

10th January 2008

Read it. Why not? It apparently causes everything else wrong with the world.

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Smoke in Their Eyes

10th January 2008

Read it. The Washington Post, of course, never saw a totalitarian intrusion into personal liberty that it didn’t like.

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USB 3.0 in the flesh

10th January 2008

Read it. No kidding — there are pictures.

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The fugliest laptop you’ll see all day

10th January 2008

Read it. And it truly is.

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Washington Today

10th January 2008

Inside Politics.

Inside the Beltway.

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Blackwater to the Rescue

10th January 2008

Read it. When you care enough to send the very best.

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CFL + motion detector = Motionbulb

9th January 2008

Read it. What’s interesting is that the motion detector is actually in the bulb.

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In India, Gods Rule The ‘Toon’ Universe

9th January 2008

Read it.

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Minnesota Governor Proposes Illegal Immigrant Crackdown

9th January 2008

Read it. Pawlenty is being talked about as a possible Republican VP candidate. I think he’s more useful where he is.

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Traitor Dies, Reuters Whitewashes

9th January 2008

Read it.

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Pakistan Army Major Retires, Becomes Suicide Bombing Mastermind

9th January 2008

Read it. My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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Voltaic’s new Generator solar bag can charge a laptop

9th January 2008

Read it. Pretty clever.

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Heineken and Krups bringing BeerTender to the States

9th January 2008

Read it. This one’s for you, Roy.

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PageRank Useful In Stopping The Spread Of Infections?

9th January 2008

Read it. Perhaps the Law of Unintended Consequences actually works in our favor sometimes.

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Soyntec Wiffinder bags can detect WiFi nets

9th January 2008

Read it. This is actually a very clever concept.

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Litigation strains Episcopal diocese

9th January 2008

Read it. It’s like watching a snowman melt in the sun.

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90 Minute Naps Might Speed Memory Consolidation

9th January 2008

Read it. I’m certainly ready to do my part.

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The Micromagic of Microcredit

9th January 2008

Read it.

Under these kinds of conditions, a cow (or a goat or pig) is a much better medium for saving. It is sturdier than paper money. Friends and relatives can’t ask for small pieces of it. If you own a cow, it yields milk, it can plow the fields, it produces dung that can be used as fuel or fertilizer, and in a pinch it can be slaughtered and turned into saleable ­meat or simply eaten. With a small loan, people in rural areas can buy that cow and use cash that might otherwise be diverted to less useful purposes to pay back the microcredit institution. So even when microcredit looks like indebtedness, savings are going up rather than down.

Then go here and lend a hand.

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Gang Leader for a Day

9th January 2008

Read it. And go punch a sociologist. You know you want to.

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Washington Today

9th January 2008

Inside Politics.

Inside the Beltway.

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