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It is called Magic/Replace, and it is basically a smart spreadsheet program that knows what you want to do with your spreadsheet. You just have to watch the video.
> Fool’s Paradise: The Unreal World of Pop Psychology, by Stewart Justman. Ivan R. Dee, September, 2005. $27.50 You have heard of Dr. Phil, you probably have friends who have adopted the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, you may have even nodded blandly upon hearing that Men are from Mars and Women are from…
>From Dave Eggers and his type of folks, their internet magazine is called McSweeneysIt contains an unsung, yet hilarious group of lists.Here is a list of my favorite listsOne of my favorites is:Implausible ClaimsMade by Vanilla Ice in His 1990 No. 1 Hit “Ice Ice Baby.”
>AIG bailout = 178 billion AIG bonuses = 165 million As xkcd points out, there is a big difference between a million and a billion. Many others have weighed in on the same point, the bonuses are only a minute fraction of what AIG got in bailout money. Others, Obama included, have pointed out that…
>Recently, spurred on by the Kanazawa business, Ta-Nehisi Coates asked about Evo psych in general in one of his special “Talk to Me Like I’m Stupid” sessions. This spurred on a lively discussion (mostly piling on about how terrible it is) but led down an interesting road, when a commenter named neocortex noted that evo…
> Freakonomics, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, William Morrow $25.95 Freakonomics, immensely popular and critically acclaimed, promises to help us see through the eyes of the most interesting economist today: Steven Levittt. Despite being marketed as a surprisingly interesting book about the normally dull field of economics (as its title suggests), this…
>Two of my goals this summer are to write more and to run more. Since I don’t run with headphones, it gives me a good chance to turn over some ideas in my head. Even if no one reads them, I figured regular writing here after my runs would help me get the writing juices…
