Category: random
Tanta, one of the co-bloggers on the extraordinarily good blog Calculated Risk has passed away. She was infamous for her übernerd series of technical posts and analysis of micro and macro issues in the mortgage and finance industry. She'll be...
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Category: random
The Yorkshire Ranter suggests that the Dog's[sic] Dogs of War by Forsyth as the world's deadliest novel....
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'couple of good ones from the Yorkshire Ranter Pakistan paranoia and World's Deadliest Novel...
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Yikes, it is friday already, again? Ok, we only have a reduced travel set of iTunes, but here goes. Oh, mighty iPod - jobs, astronomy jobs that is, gonna be any over the next year? Whoosh goes the randomizer. Whoosh....
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Category: academia
First Krugman makes a snarky comment about the grownups coming (though I seem to have heard that one before, a few years ago, how did that work out?)....
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is, loosely translated, what the leader of the opposition "red-green alliance" said to a government member of Alþing in Iceland, who claimed the opposition had been procedurally delaying the setup and start of investigation into the Icelandic banking crisis....
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Category: random
is how many people you could employ for a year for $306 billion, at a cost of $70 per hour, for 40 hour work week, 50 weeks per year. Those people would then go out and spend the money,...
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Category: random
We need one of those....
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everyone does know that there is now an official Monty Python channel...
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It is snowing, and this time I am not pointing the wrong way on the I-271(N) staring at the headlights of 20,000 tired and grumpy Clevelanders who are late heading home (but who fortunately do know how to drive...
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