Category: Web/Tech
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1. Goolsbee responds to critics.
2. Why are Yankee caps so popular with criminals? (And does this prove that Mets fans are better?)
3. Henry reviews Hacker and Pierson.
4. How to reform Congress: the UK model.
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1. The Greek death spiral, continued.
2. Voting on the best conservative books.
3. More deflating thoughts on Basel III, and here, and here. Felix Salmon comments somewhat more favorably.
4. Trying the iTunes model for essays, led by Chuck Klosterman.
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Zero price markets in everything, religious search engines
Shea Houdmann runs SeekFind, a Colorado Springs-based Christian search engine that only returns results from websites that are consistent with the Bible. He says SeekFind is designed "to promote what we believe to be biblical truth" and excludes sites that don't meet that standard.
Houdmann says a search on his site would not turn up pornography. If you search “gay marriage,” you would get results that argue against gay marriage. And if you type in “Democratic Party,” your first search result is a site on Marxism.
But SeekFind isn’t the only search engine carving a niche market among religious Internet users. There is also Jewogle for Jews and I'mHalal, a Muslim search engine that started in the Netherlands.
The Muslim site is already getting ten million users (or is that site visits?) a month. The full story is here and for the pointer I thank Anastasia.
Addendum: I couldn't get the Christian search engine to work at all; the site blames heavy traffic [I tried again; googling my name gets you to Tyler Perry. If you google "economics", "Islamic economics" pops up before "Christian economics" and "postmodern economics" comes before both]. The Halal site brought up more or less normal results both for my name and for "economics," although page one for the latter had some squirrely (non-Muslim) results, such as Hunter College. I don't appear in Jewogle at all, but an economics query will bring you to a list of Nobel Laureates.
State-contingent price markets in everything
The Lucky Counter: the more tweets a product gets, the lower the price goes.
The goods include "super soft merino cashmere, Japanese denim and an ultra light parka."
For the pointer I thank Josh Premuda.
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2. Good MR comments on high-frequency trading, in case you missed them.
3. I don't usually link to Afrikaaner rap/rave music videos.
4. Arnold Kling on AEI and also the American evangelical tradition.
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1. What were the top TV words this last year?
2. What a fig is.
3. How the WSJ and NYT really work, in the eyes of the Chinese (video).
4. Camille Paglia on Lady Gaga (negative).
5. The culture that is Australia, part I, and here parts II and III.
6. Against the R&D tax credit.
7. Video of Manne, Sen, Ostrom, and Buchanan at George Mason; at 90 years old Buchanan still stole the show.
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2. Would campaign finance reform matter?
3. Should we create an option for making Ereading harder?
4. How Apple tricks you, or applied behavioral economics.
5. ATM graffiti.
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1. Goolsbee on investment tax credits.
2. "Free the food truck," by Ed Glaeser.
3. Good review of the new Tony Blair.
4. James C. Scott on Cato Unbound.
5. The old Libertarian Review, now on-line; oddly the issue with my somewhat intemperate review of George Gilder's Wealth and Poverty (about the first piece I ever wrote and I suspect it shows its age) seems to be missing.
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3. Hugo Award winners (can any of you vouch for any of these?).
4. Peter Orszag's first NYT column.
5. Optimal sleep prizes for children.
6. How does space flight change people?
7. More evidence on how good studying works, and might this also bear on the multi-tasking debates?
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1. Eli's blog.
2. Kling teaches the Mankiw seminar.
5. The Massachusetts Virtual Academy, a fully on-line public school, opened yesterday.
6. Good article on Olive Garden and Red Lobster, both Darden restaurants.