Category: Web/Tech

1. Twittergraphy, based on the history of the telegraph and message condensation.

2. Dawn of Discovery, a new economics game.

3. Thoughts on the evolution of blogging.

4. Test your grit.

5. Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future — Chris Mooney's new book — is now out.

6. Six economists on why we should not audit the Fed.

1. Doubts on cash for clunkers.

2. Stanley Lebergott passes away at 93.

3. Lobbying strategy: give us money or we will kill the gorilla.

4. How many people are killed by cows?  "…All but one of the victims died from head or chest injuries; the last
died after a cow knocked him down and a syringe in his pocket injected
him with an antibiotic meant for the cow. In at least one case the
animal attacked from behind, when the person wasn’t looking. Older men
with arthritis and hearing aids have the highest risk of being injured
by livestock, the report says, probably because they don’t hear the
animals charging and can’t move fast enough to get out of the way."

1. The Braess paradox and the Patrick Ewing theory.

2. Life expectancy by region of U.S.

3. Italy tries to make amends to Japanese tourist.

4. Art as a blog.

5. Why are manhole covers round?

1. Motley Fool podcast, by me.

2. Sean Wilentz on Lincoln.

3. Chess players play the "beauty contest" game.

4. The Robot Gamelan Orchestra.

5. Markets in everything, a new use for pigeon blood, the link is safe for work but not for everybody.

6. Which public health interventions work?

1. Top ten books in international economic history?

2. Slovakian review of Create Your Own Economy.

3. Eric Falkenstein on high-frequency trading.

4. Cronenberg to film DeLillo's Cosmopolis.

5. Surprising facts about best-selling authors; yes Sidney Sheldon is the same guy behind I Dream of Jeannie.

1. Me on Reason.TV.

2. Nicholson Baker whinges about Kindle.

3. North Korean beer commercial.

4. An intellectual journey with many stops (one of Brad DeLong's best posts).

5. Extending the "all you can eat" concept, and yet the law intervenes.  Or, "the culture that is Germany."

6. The Women's Leadership Fund, a new investment strategy.

7. More patently false claims about China.

8. Via Kottke, cats play Arnold Schoenberg's Op.11; I loved this one.

1. Being overweight as a function of region.

2. Coffee shortage in Venezuela.

3. Laura Miller on drugs; she remains one of my favorite current writers.

4. Berlin Philharmonic on-line concerts.

5. Why doesn't Moore's Law apply everywhere?

Nemutan doesn't really have a leg. She's a stuffed pillowcase — a
2-D depiction of a character, Nemu, from an X-rated version of a PC
video game called Da Capo, printed on synthetic fabric.

The culture that is Japan.  I thank Arpit Gupta for the pointer.

1. Critique of "the neg" — a long post.  Does it really make the woman feel bad?  (She might feel she is receiving attention from a high-status man.)  Still, I believe it is a suboptimal path to a happy marriage.

2. Via Chris Masse, open source won't do it, so abolish academic copyright.

3. Scott Sumner and John Cochrane, discussing monetary policy, self-recommending and indeed recommended (highly).

4. Via JM, Miss Teen South Carolina, on economics (SFW).

5. Via Jeff Sommer, review of the new Thomas Pynchon.

1. "Hurry up and wait!"

2. Is there an oversaturation with superheroes?

3. Interview with Edmund Phelps and here with Claudia Goldin.

4. A man who lives without money.

5. The fall books traffic jam.

6. Why are Southerners so overweight?

1. Are the French abandoning topless bathing?

2. Five questions with Bill Simmons.

3. What happens when payday loans are linked with full disclosure?

4. Thoughts on K-12 entrepreneurship.

5. Obama's press conference.

1. Via Chris Masse, one account of life as a fashion model.

2. Countercyclical asset of the day: building sheds.

3. Me, on the future of libraries and related matters.

4. NeighborhoodEffects, a blog.

5. How much should blog writers disclose about their personal lives?

6. Old people are less interested in health care reform: the numbers.

7. Markets in everything: de-baptism, done with a hair dryer.

1. Can the lottery help people save more?

2. The new economics of YouTube.

3. Attack on Isaiah Berlin.

4. Will California adopt pay-as-you-drive insurance?

5. Milton Friedman: what is greed?

6. The culture that is Japanese: virtual restaurants.

7. Uh-oh.  Or is it good news?

1. Why don't Japanese cell phones dominate the market?

2. Narcissism and social networking, via Chris Masse.

3. Monkey grammar.

4. The economic value of the space program.

5. RonPaulSingles.com.

6. James Surowiecki: is federalism obsolete?

1. What are the lessons of military schools?

2. Fancy Fast Food.

3. 61 [sic] essential reads of postmodern literature.

4. The fate of Massachusetts health care reform.  Ezra Klein offers a different perspective.  Lots is at stake here.