Walter Benjamin's tips for writing (29)
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An occasional MR reader sent me these:I. Anyone intending to embark on a major work should be lenient with himself and, having completed a stint, deny himself nothing that will not prejudice the next. II. Talk about what you have written, by all means, but do not read from it while the work is in progress. Every gratification procured in this way will slacken your tempo. If this regime is followed, the growing desire to ...
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munir said:
For all of us writing theses.
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Arul N S said:
For all the writers I know...
WebWorkerDaily » Archive Ready to Ditch GrandCentral? Take a Look at PhoneFusion One « (9)
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I’ve been using Google’s GrandCentral since well, before it was Google’s GrandCentral. My day job is based in Virginia and with GrandCentral, I could have a 703 area code phone number that didn’t tie me to my home office all day. However, over the last few months I’ve been frustrated by the service’s limitations and glacial progress. While there are many virtual PBX options for SMBs and Enterprise, most are priced way out of an ...
American exceptionalism (1)
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It's that time of year again . . . the teams are chosen, the banners are out, the TiVos are set. Yes, I'm talking olympics. Which means it's time for the biannual complaints from Europeans about how Americans only show the sports where Americans are likely to take medals:I thought I'd get this rant out of the way before the season hits. Watching the Olympics in the US is no fun, because the only thing ...
From the NBA to Europe ? (10)
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Could there be anything better for the NBA ? The more NBA players in Europe the better. The movement of players is taking away the stigma and fear that younger players perceive when they are asked to play in Europe before signing an NBA contract. Knowing that they will be competing against Josh Childress, Earl Boykins, Carlos Arroyo, et al, and getting a chance to get real minutes, AND make good money is a win ...
The Mr. Spock Guide to Effective Blogging | Copyblogger (16)
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It is curious how often you humans manage to obtain that which you do not want. ~Spock The Star Trek franchise has created dozens of memorable characters and inspired an incredible degree of connection and passion in its fans. One of its most enduring characters is Mr. Spock, the eminently logical half-Vulcan first officer in the original series. Spock’s controlled, cool demeanor won him legions of fans, including millions of women who wanted to Pon ...
Don’t Pay for Active Fund Management (1)
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Both basic economic theory and tons of empirical evidence tell us that broad-based, passively-managed index funds do better than actively-managed funds. A recent study confirms that that holds true for Greek money managers too: This paper investigates the performance of Greek equity funds in the period 08/01/2005 - 08/23/2007 finding that funds deliver average daily percentage returns that move... [continued on site]
The Cartel Effect of Not Paying College Athletes (1)
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Economists Amy Farmer and Paul Pecorino recently published a study entitled Is the Coach Paid Too Much? Coaching Salaries and the NCAA Cartel. The abstract follows: Recently a great deal of controversy has been generated from the salaries earned by head football coaches in the NCAA. On one level this seems odd since many figures in the world of sports and entertainment earn exceptionally high... [continued on site]
Skip Caray Dead at 68 (2)
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Longtime Atlanta Braves announcer Skip Caray died in his sleep Sunday. He had been suffering from myriad health problems the last couple of years. Tim Tucker eulogizes him for the AJC: Skip Caray made the call when the Atlanta Braves won the World Series in 1995: “Yes! Yes! Yes! The Atlanta Braves have given you a championship! Listen to this crowd!” He made the call when Sid...
The Lesson of Solzhenitsyn (1)
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One point to remember in assessing the life and legacy of Alexander Solzhenitsyn: a critic of a totalitarian system is not ipso facto a supporter of American-style liberalism. Nor, in seeking to destroy the old system, will such a person automatically endorse everything that the successor regime does. Solzhenitsyn was a bold and prophetic critic to the evils of the Soviet system; he was horrified by what occurred in post-Soviet, 1990's "free" Russia.Solzhenitsyn's trajectory is ...
Karachi USA (1)
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Patricia Lee Sharpe discusses the nuances of "rogue" intelligence operations in Pakistan. Basically, there’s a permanent military/intelligence ruling class in the country that’s going to do what it wants, and if the new progressive-minded civilian government tries to hard to purge the "rogue" elements, the new progressive-minded civilian government will be gone. Meanwhile, Radley Balko spots Blackwater tees on the torsos of agents raiding a medical-marijuana facility in California. That puts me in mind of ...
THE BULLDOZER IN THEORY AND PRACTICE. (2)
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A decent cultural critic could write a powerful essay analyzing the bulldozer's ascension to a weapon of fear and terror and destruction in Israel. Used to be that bulldozers were an Israeli tool for flattening the homes of extremists and terrorists, all too often when family members were still inside, or bystanders were still nearby, or the residences of the innocent shared a foundation. Now reports are coming of Palestinian terrorists using earth movers and ...
Wanted: Better blog post titles (1)
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It's strange to me that so many bloggers write vague titles for their posts (random examples from my RSS reader: "Fantasyland," "Optimal Control," "The Catch-22"). Maybe it's an aesthetic preference, but the reality is that your blog readers are busy people. Most of them are quickly scanning your blog online or (even worse) scrolling through headlines in an RSS reader. Why not tell them what the post is about? More importantly, if you write specific ...
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James Joyner said:
There's some value to cutesy titles aimed at the readership on occasion. If you're going to do that, though, you're better off using a different title in your header for the search engines.
Who is the smartest player on the football field?Mike Rappaport (1)
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No, not the quarterback, but he is one of the smarter ones. The left tackle (not too much surprise) and the right tackle. After that the center, and then the quarterback. The running backs, receivers, and defensive players score the lowest. How smart are these different players? The offensive tackles are as smart as newswriters. The quarterbacks as smart as those in sales. A clerical worker is way smarter than a running back. And no ...
Admit you like Starbucks Tom Smith (3)
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There's a Starbucks backlash goin' on and it's not fair. Yes, Starbucks are absurdly ubiquitous, they have overexpanded, and now they're going to pay the price. The creative destruction of the market is at work. But we should remember some key facts and be grateful. First, remember what coffee was like before Starbucks. Some of you (though I doubt it, with the readership of this blog) may have cut your teeth on micro-roasted craft coffee ...
Oil: Are We In A Bubble? (1)
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1. Supply and demand is usually the right place to start, and it is surely central here. As everybody knows, global demand is growing rapidly. While the US + Europe account for almost half of all worldwide oil consumption, about 80% of the growth in consumption over the past several years has been created by other countries. China alone accounted for about one-third of all consumption growth between 2003 and 2006. At the same time, ...
Rift between Iranian officials grows (1)
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ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images Remember that little feud between Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Ali Akbar Velayati, a senior advisor to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei? Well, the spat between the two men isn't quite over. Ahmadinejad shot back today at comments made by Velayati in an Iranian daily newspaper criticizing Ahmadinejad's hardline nuclear rhetoric, saying that the former foreign minister and Khamenei advisor had no role in the country's nuclear program: Velayati is a ...
