October 2008
56 posts
Don Miguel Asín Palacios had intense black eyes, fine hands; photographs did not...
– Wikipedia
Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxi...
– George Burns
A mentsh tracht, un Gott lacht (Man toils and God laughs.)
The Canadian French term for moose is orignal, which comes from Basque oreina...
– Language Log
As we enjoy great advantages from inventions of others, we should be glad of an...
– Benjamin Franklin
More than a dozen years ago I heard a nice definition of “legacy”;...
– ongoing
# The worst is yet to come.
# The next few weeks and months are going to have...
– Nouriel Roubini
The great Calvin Coolidge once said that “the business of America is business.”...
– John McCain’s last chance | The Economist
In that same spirit of looking backwards for lessons we can use better to...
– Scenarios and Strategy
A man goes to see his Rabbi.
“Rabbi, something terrible is happening...
– via Tim Daneliuk
National City Corp announced this morning that it plans to cut 4,000 jobs as...
– Dealbreaker
Flash storage. I really wish I could talk about this some more (pesky NDAs), but...
– Don MacAskill
Shaping of Polar Zonohedron - Geometry of 30 St.... →
In recent years, zonohedra have for example begun to find their way into...
– Wolfram Blog : Russell Towle: 1949–2008
On another occasion, at LaGuardia, in New York, the transportation-security...
– The Things He Carried - The Atlantic
(November 2008)
I don’t see Ruby really diving into the Enterprise either where...
– Ruby’s vocal minority
The Big Picture | Baltic Dry Index (Woof!) →
Extreme restoration →
30 St. Mary's Axe
This is mildly complicated:
The Provisional IRA (the Provos!) bombed the City of London years ago, causing GBP800mm in damages. The bomb was centered (51.5144,-0.081) on St. Mary’s Axe, a small street off of Threadneedle. The street’s name is a conflation of St. Mary’s Parish and a pub that used to have an axe as its symbol. Very English. Pronounced Simmery’s Axe,...
While John Hobbs’s store has been closed since spring, when The Sunday Times in...
– The Feud and the Fakes - NYTimes.com
If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it...
– Thomas Jefferson
The next big language; Theory, practice, and the... →
Clojure
I think caring less worked out fine
– Dave Beckett - Journalblog
There are an estimated 8,000 foreign militants in Fata, from Arabs to Chechens,...
– The Spectator
(FATA = Federally Administered Tribal Area, NW Pakistan)
Someone needs to figure out some good contract structures to support outsourced...
– ongoing · A Good Time for Agility
by the way, none of us Norse gods are happy by the removal of attention paid to...
– WSJ.com : Pastor Delivers Odd Invocation at McCain Rally
At a McCain event, as the crowd waited for McCain himself to arrive, Pastor...
– Political Punch
And I’ve made some estimate that on top of the 300 (billion), $400 billion...
– Nouriel Roubini — Council on Foreign Relations
Alas, the rarer the event, the more theory you need (since we don’t...
– Nassim Taleb
McCain was again pressed about Obama’s “other-ness” and again...
– McCain Faces Backlash Over Rabid Crowds
Real estate is in a free-fall because prices are too high and people borrowed...
– Inland News
many of the exotic loan products have a clause where payments adjust...
– WestsideREmeltdown
61 percent of Google’s stock options granted to employees are currently under...
– TechCrunch
Summerhill has had a less than perfect relationship with the British government,...
– Summerhill School
A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose...
– Greg Mankiw
To resurrect one of my recurring frustrations: Most airlines still fail to...
– Ask the pilot - Salon.com
I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare...
– Samuel Johnson
He’s a nice guy, but he played too much football with his helmet off.
– Lyndon Baines Johnson about Gerald Ford