Category: Web/Tech

1. Hacking Obama's Blackberry.

2. Hacking a university press.

3. Hacking Obama's housing plan.  And here is a good critique.

4. Markets in everything, sell advertising space on your bald head.

5. China mad architectural design plan of the day.

1. The inside scoop on how the Geithner plan evolved.

2. What kind of cities do Americans want to live in?

3. Fruits and vegetables are getting less healthy.

4. The blind, epileptic artist.

5. World War II and the end of the Great Depression.

1. The Political Economy of the Financial Crisis, by the excellent Roger Congleton.

2. How to trick your three-year-old.

3. Markets in everything, Japan edition once again.

4. Serotonin and financial risk?

5. Arctic unicorns, worth a view.

6. Small ideas for a much better world.

1. Karol Boudreaux is now blogging.

2. Against new banks.

3. Government as shareholder: trickier than you think.

4. Becker and Murphy on fiscal stimulus.

5. Why does flu spread more in winter?

6. Comparing the two stimulus bills.

1. Tim Harford's The Logic of Life, out in paperback Tuesday.  Our MR book forum on it was here.

2. The $10 microscope, via Chug.

3. Will failed British banks come back as mutuals?

4. "Gallons per mile" is better than "miles per gallon."

5. Recovery and sectoral shifts.

1. China prodigy of the day.

2. Johnny Cash and Louis Armstrong (YouTube).

3. Models of correlations among risks, by Robert Engel, and here.

4. What really caused the crisis?  A good short piece.

5. Brad Delong lists the cuts in the stimulus plan.

6. Should the IMF create more SDRs?

In the "good old days," under the old typepad, block quotations received the same spacing as written text by Alex and me.  These days, under the new and "improved" typepad (it's worse), imported block quotations are spaced more tightly.  But not always, I might add.  What can I do to the underlying html to correct for this?  I preferred it the old way.

Your assistance is appreciated.

It's funny, by the way, that typepad's spell checkers don't recognize the word "typepad."

1. Paul Romer on creating good banks.

2. Another application of Modigliani-Miller?

3. How fiscal stimulus fared in Japan.

4. More economic advisers for Obama, including Tyson and Feldstein on a council.

5. What is conservatism?

6. Abandoned cars in Dubai: a bad sign.

1. David Levy reviews Bryan Caplan.

2. StimulusWatch.org

3. The very wise Alice Rivlin.

4. Is one hundred cents worth more than a dollar?

5. Culinary protectionism in Italy.

Can anyone tell me, how good a machine is this?

Entasopia is a cool name for a place in Kenya:

The outpost, with about 4,000 inhabitants, is at the end of that road and beyond the reach of power lines. It has no bank, no post office, few cars and little infrastructure. Newspapers arrive in a bundle every three or four weeks. At night, most people light kerosene lamps and candles in their houses or fires in their huts and go to bed early, except for the farmers guarding crops against elephants and buffalo.

Entasopia is the last place on earth that a traveler would expect to find an Internet connection. Yet it was here, in November, that three young engineers from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, with financial backing from Google, installed a small satellite dish powered by a solar panel, to hook up a handful of computers in the community center to the rest of the world.

Here is the full story.  Here is a landing strip in Entasopia.  Here are Entasopia girls reciting an AIDS poem.  Here are the local hills.

1. In defense of the corporate jet.

2. How the guy managed to land that plane in the water.

3. Skeptical views on geoengineering.

4. "Never, ever feed the zombies!"

5. Might Brandeis actually be bankrupt?

6. How American Express feels about WalMart customers.

1. What is Political Capitalism?

2. Guide to the multiple stimulus debates.

3.Stimulus: the whole is less than the sum of its parts.

4. The Fed is making progress.

5. Football economics and auctions.

1. How to fail metaphysics at the University of Hawaii.

2. The paradox of underrated?

3. Martin Feldstein is skeptical about the stimulus bill.

4. Jeremy Stein and Jeffrey Liebman to the Obama administration.

5. Kidney donation doesn't seem to lower lifespan.

6. Our epistemological depression.

1. "Realization utility," by me, for Money magazine.

2. Pick two.

3. The Baseline Scenario, a new web site.

4. Markets in everything: chav-free holidays?

5. Against Candyland.