Link. Dog envy.
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Travel the Oceans on Solar Power
Link. When a ticket to London costs $5,000, will a cruise be cheap?
Before Google was evil, it was stupid. Data sniffing.
Blue-eyed-people-are-all-related zombie news
Link. Bad science, fixed. “Sex between blue-eyed people is not incest.”
The Digital Estate – don’t put passwords in your will
Link. “Formal wills become public. So you need to be careful what you put in a will, because anyone in the world could have access to it.” Links to a government site on how to manage one’s digital estate
China and commodity prices – collapse in 3-4 years?
Link. “Non-food commodity prices are set to collapse over the next three to four years”
The Obama Stimulus worked – more evidence
GDP change and government size: no correlation
Link. France is a big outlier. There’s a missing story there.
Debacle in Beijing by Ian Johnson
Link. Persuasive. Thoughtful.
More on Chen Guangcheng: The Limits of Outside Power
Link. Chen should not have gone to the US embassy.
Two Hundred Years of Surgery — NEJM
Link. some claimed anesthesia was for weak wimps. remember that.
“Two Hundred Years of Surgery”
Link. Gawande needs a talentectomy. He has too much.
Jordan: The king’s sad men
Link. kings have endings
Sydney Wignall
Link. classic welsh eccentric explorer
Down Argentina Way
Link. recovery but from a low point
Counting animals: Written in blood
Link. researchers are a hardy bunch
Private space flight: Keep on truckin’
Link. Go Dragon!
How economists have misunderstood inequality
Link. Finance as the great demon
Google Turns the Evil Up to 11
Link. worse than Facebook
the Ai precedent
Link. Chen is not Ai. terrible choices in the lap of monsters
history: America, Land of the Equals
Link. losing our way
Blood for money for blood
Link. Davis was in the wrong line of work
Science research may be freed from journals’ ‘unhealthy’ paywalls
Link. progress!
IOT: Voltaire’s Candide 05 May 12
Released From Embassy, Dissident Now Says He Wants to Leave China – NYTimes.com
Link. Chen
Feel the Confidence
Link. depression
How Chemicals Change Us
Link. receipts?
With Great Wealth Comes Great Pettiness
Link. wealth is a measure of wealth
Chen: A Car Chase, Secret Talks and Second Thoughts
Link. Did Chen trust Beijing too much?
Chen: A Car Chase, Secret Talks and Second Thoughts
Link. Did Chen trust Beijing too much?
‘Doctors want to cure’ patients, not tell them they’re dying
Link. it’s the way doctors are made
football dying
Link. “With people whom I would not pass another words, I can debate the greatest running back of all time. It’s like losing a language.”
moving to using Facebook Comments
Link. too bad google blew it
Studies Shine Light on How Vioxx Raises Heart Risks
Link. cox-2 inhibitors are finished.
GOP alternatives to Obamacare
Link. none
Windows Live branding going
Link. Windows Live Writer doesn’t appear in the new branding. Uh Oh.
Apple ID Horror Story
Link. “After a few hours, I figured out that I could use Apple’s Express Lane service to open an iTunes Store-related trouble ticket. Unfortunately, this ultimately led me to a blank page, and only after several unsuccessful attempts did I think of using a Web browser other than Safari, which — ironically — enabled me to file a report at about 9:30 PM.”
Very bad news. Similar stories for Google ID. We need legislation.
Employers save $422 billion if they dump health coverage. Will they?
Link. I sure hope so.
Zeigarnik, bane of bloggers
How to Follow the Chen Guangcheng News
Link. Rumor: “Chen was told that his wife would be killed if he did not leave the embassy”
Comparing Romney and Bush
Link. GOP is completely distinct from reality now.
MathOverflow – huh?
Link. “If you want something about quantum foundations and hidden-variable theories of a bit more scientific interest, check out this MathOverflow question I asked on Monday, which was answered within one day by George Lowther (I then carefully wrote up the solution he sketched).”
Blows me away.
The Psychopath Dilemma
Link. Really, it’s the free will problem. Doesn’t exist.
Should the Pentagon buy more jets — or Spain?
Link. The Pentagon can’t really buy Spain. But the US could.
How the 1% think about their wealth
Link. The madness that drives some to vast wealth grows and metastasizes with time.
OK, I Said I Wouldn’t Complain About ‘New Look’ Gmail Any More
Link. Google can’t do squat.
What Keynes got wrong
Link. We don’t want to live like the kings of 1930. that would be terrible.
iPad cases–Joy Factory Smartsuit3.
Just about anything makes more sense than the euro zone
Link. West Germany paid about $1.9 trillion over 20 years to integrate the [East]… productive workers in San Francisco or New York City prop up less productive workers in places like Mississippi …