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If you are anything like me, you are constantly coming across books and other goodies that look interesting but not interesting enough to actually get. In my house, there are several shelves that contain books purchased but not yet read. It’s my queue. I love them . It’s like having a personal book...
Read more →Because of a couple of projects that I am working on, I thought I might be able to use some tool for an online survey. I have two particular requirements: - respondents can be anonymous - respondents are allowed to complete the survey in multiple sittings. In other words, they can go back to a for...
Read more →Ask The Pilot is a regular Salon column. Recently there was a good one, essentially about how hard or easy it is to fly and land a plane nowadays: > “But wait, he goes on. “Most of the time,” says heyja, “pilots will push th...
Read more →Not than anyone is buying any stocks these days (are you?) but I happened to have a very small number of Whole Foods shares, so this bit of news explains why Whole Foods have been tanking (other than the general lowering...
Read more →Here’s a truly weird article, which a sticks in my mind a week after reading it: > “Clark had seen teratomas. They were common in the reproductive tract, often found accidentally in the course of an operation or on a ...
Read more →A really good article in the New York Times Magazine today about Lewis Hyde. I had not heard of Lewis Hyde before. First of all, the article makes me want to pick up his book, [The Gift:](http://www.amazon.com/gp...
Read more →I came across this ad in the New York Times magazine. I should say, I was riveted by this ad. Is this a real building? Is it built yet? You have to take a look at some of the images on (what I think is) [their main site.](http:/...
A neat article in Salon, by Garrison Keillor – America is cool: > “The world expects us to elect pompous yahoos and instead we have us a 47-year-old prince from the prairie who cheerfully ran the race, and when his opponents threw sand at him, he just smiled back. He’ll be...
Read more →Michael Lewis writes a great article in Portfolio online about the, let’s say, inevitability, of what’s happened to economy, or wall street, or the markets — take your pick. You can file this und...
Read more →I can’t put my feelings, seriously, into words: http://nytimes-se.com
Jim Manzi (of Lotus fame) has an interesting article in “The Nation” about our need, as a nation, to invest just a little bit more in innovation: > “But with only a little bit of extra funding, foresight and determination, it may be possible to ki...
Read more →Scott Kirsner of the Innovation Economy blog, as well of the Boston Globe says that: > “To me, the biggest way to make Boston more competitive and innovative right now is to do a better job connecting students wi...
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On Tuesday, Chris and I volunteered for Barack Obama. I got a very interesting perspective on the election process in the US, and to tell you the truth, it wa...
I am not at all sure what to make of this. But a friend of mine pointed me to some of the following postings and reports which are interesting, and if true, highly disturbing. - Attorney Cliff Arnebeck on how the [Ohio Election was/might have ...
Read more →[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3ijYVyhnn0&hl=en&fs=1]
Whether you agree or not, it is thoughtful and thought provoking discussion of Bubbles and Financial Engineering (IMO): > “Let me get this straight. In 2008, funds trying to squeeze out another basis po...
Read more →I am not sure I am reading this right, but it looks like Comcast is giving my home internet connection a nice speed boost! 
Check out this post In Defense of Raising Money: a Manifesto for NonProfit CEOs: > "How about this instead: “You are incredibly good at making money. I’m incredibly good at making change. The change I want to...
Read more →Check out this weird new practice called 5S: > “5S is a key concept of the lean manufacturing techniques that have made makers of everything from cars to candy bars more efficient. The S’s stand for sort, straighten, shine, standardize and sustain. Lately, 5S has been moving from the plant floor to the cubicle at hundreds of offices around the country, adding desk cleaning to the growing list of demands on employees.” from Wall Street Journal I am so happy that I don’t have to work in such an environment! http://s.wsj.net/media/swf/main.swf
I’ve been a Peggy Noonan fan for a while. Yes she is politically more conservative than I am, but she is such a literate writer it is a...