Endo vs Exo (2)
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Yesterday I was starting to get nervous about the path I'd started to go down with the generic groups app for Pinax. I was basically building a single centralized app through which different types of groups would be managed via configuration. I had a good chat with Eric Florenzano about it and we agreed that it just felt wrong but I couldn't think of an alternative. Then this morning I had a brainwave—a shift in ...
One very bad economic indicator (4)
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A Wal-Mart employee in suburban New York died after he was trampled by a crush of shoppers who tore down the front doors and thronged into the store early Friday morning, turning the annual rite of post-Thanksgiving bargain hunting into a Hobbesian frenzy.Here is the story.
Sentences to ponder (3)
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No rational regulator concerned with substantive transparency would approve of common stock, if it were a novel investment vehicle. It guarantees no cash flows whatever, its "control rights" are so weak for most purchasers that representations thereof should be viewed as fraudulent. Empirically common stock behavior is very weakly coupled to the performance and health of the firms that stocks fund. The only instrument in wide use more substantatively opaque than common stock is fiat ...
Playground Blues / Switching from Rails to Django (4)
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So back in the Fall of 2005 I launched my foray into the world of Rails like every other designer wannabe programmer. I’ll be honest, I did it because everyone else was. Looking back I don’t really know why, I just followed the “if it feels good, do it” principle. Out of that decision grew a love/hate relationship. I’m primarily a designer but I like sticking my hands in the programming cookie jar. I appreciate ...
Democracy in Singapore: How Is One-Party Rule Possible?, by Bryan Caplan (5)
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Americans often describe Singapore as a "dictatorship." I've occasionally done so myself. After further study, though, I've concluded that this view is simply wrong. Singapore is a democracy in practice as well as theory. Yes, the ruling People's Action Party has 82 out of 84 seats, and has held the reins of power for the country's entire history. But Singapore follows the rules of British parliamentary politics. Opposition is legal. It just doesn't win.Like most ...
Flash from the LSA (1)
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Just out, from the LSA website: Linguistics, Language and the Public Award The Linguistic Society of America announces the 2009 recipient of the Linguistics, Language and the Public Award, given for a body of work that has had a demonstrable impact on the public awareness of language and/or linguistics. The award will be given to Language Log, a collaborative science blog devoted to linguistics and written by a team of more than a dozen prominent ...
Holiday shopping guide (36)
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The decisions you make with your hard-earned money this year will have more impact than ever before. So put your money where your mouth is. Here are a few ideas to consider:1. Buy handmade items from people you like. 2. Don't buy gift cards. It's lazy and sort of dumb. 3. Don't buy from big brands or big stores that don't care about you, or that act in ways you don't applaud. There are very ...
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Adam said:
Seth lays down a premium entree of goodness. Again.
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Peat said:
I like these suggestions even during economic booms ...
Fonts Are Fun!: An Optima Prime T-Shirt (8)
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Remember the dead celebrity font ads from last month? Well in the same vein comes this Optima Prime t-shirt -- made entirely out of the Optima font! Wow, will the fun never end? The shirts start at $13.75, but if you want one that won't disintegrate the first time you wash it you're looking at more like $20. And speaking of $20, did you know that Andrew Jackson was nicknamed "Old Hickory"? It's true, the ...
Sir Ben Kingsley playing Ian MacKaye. Via Jason Cosper. (1)
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Mets Stadium = Citi/Taxpayer Field? (1)
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Two New York City Council members say that Citigroup should show its thanks for a federal bailout by sharing the naming rights to the new Mets ballpark in Queens. The struggling bank is slated to pay $400 million over the next 20 years to name the stadium Citi Field.The bank made the commitment years ago, when it was flush with cash. Now that Citigroup is getting billions of dollars in federal ...
The old hero of Gettysburg (9)
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1863 photo of John L. Burns, War of 1812 veteran and sharpshooter in the Battle of Gettysburg. Burns, born ca. 1793, was a 70-year-old veteran of the War of 1812 when he was wounded in the Battle of Gettysburg, having volunteered his services as a sharpshooter to the Federal Army. He died of pneumonia in 1872. And from the comments: Mr Burns' flintlock is at half-cock with the frizzen down, ready to ready to fire. ...
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Matt said:
Truly the definition of an "old war dog."
MLB First: Cricket Players From India Signed (1)
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USA TODAY -- Dinesh Patel and Rinku Singh, two 19-year-old cricket players from small villages in India who had not picked up a baseball until April, on Monday became the first athletes from India to sign professional baseball contracts, agreeing to deals with the Pittsburgh Pirates.HT: Sanil Kori
New Cop Car Designed For Cops, By Cops (14)
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The Carbon Motors E7 is a new police cruiser that addresses safety and performance issues neglected due to the current practice of retrofitting Crown Victorias/Impalas. Right now fire departments, emergency medical technicians, the military, and even mail carriers all use vehicles built specifically for them. But the country's 800,000 law enforcement first-responders drive dangerously retrofitted family sedans. The E7 is being hailed as THE purpose-built vehicle for police officers. It was designed to jump curbs, ...
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ydant said:
This is an awesome move. Retrofitting existing cars definitely has issues - if nothing else wind resistance. That looks pretty badass, too.
Here Comes Everybody Review (29)
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In 1937, Ronald Coase answered one of the most perplexing questions in economics: if markets are so great, why do organizations exist? Why don't people just buy and sell their own services in a market instead? Coase, who won the 1991 Nobel Prize in Economics, answered the question by noting a market's transaction costs: buyers and sellers need to find...
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kris. nuttycombe said:
"most user-generated content isn't 'content' at all, in the sense of being created for general consumption, any more than a phone call between you and a sibling is 'family-generated content.' Most of what gets created on any given day is just the ordinary stuff of life -- gossip, little updates, thinking out loud -- but now it's done in the same medium as professionally produced material. Unlike professionally produced material, however, Internet content can be organized after the fact."
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Ganius Tanuel said:
Book review. Sounds promising.
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Ade said:
"We've all figured out that the Internet makes freedom of speech a much harder right to take away. As Shirky demonstrates, Web 2.0 is having the same effect on freedom of assembly. The consequences of this won't be fully seen for years."
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John said:
This one has been on my wish list since I watched the Shirky talk Jeff Atwood referenced at: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001122.html
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