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Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:38:40 -0500

Saturday Night Live skit: Sarah Palin - Katie Couric interview

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:01:47 -0400

Saturday Night Live skit: Sarah Palin - Katie Couric interview

Arnold Kling, an economist who has worked for Freddie Mac and...

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:03:09 -0400

Arnold Kling, an economist who has worked for Freddie Mac and the Fed, talks to the Cato Institute about the proposed bailout.

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Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:36:27 -0400

Stiglitz Says Iraq `Surge’ Not Success That Bush Claims...

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:28:00 -0400

Stiglitz Says Iraq `Surge’ Not Success That Bush Claims — Sept. 15 (Bloomberg) — Joseph Stiglitz, an economist at Columbia University, talks with Bloomberg’s Tom Keene about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. spending on the conflicts, and the outlook for the credit crisis and financial market regulation.

A couple, both writers, spend a day no more than 15 feet apart...

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:28:00 -0400

A couple, both writers, spend a day no more than 15 feet apart like a couple, both Buddhists, who were profiled in the NY Times.

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Thu, 01 May 2008 23:01:54 -0400

Clay Shirky’s talk from the Web 2.0 Expo touching on his...

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:19:16 -0400

Clay Shirky’s talk from the Web 2.0 Expo touching on his Here Comes Everybody book.

Another good thought-provoking talk by Tim O’Reilly.

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:17:53 -0400

Another good thought-provoking talk by Tim O’Reilly.

Penn Jillette ruminates on getting famous.

Sat, 02 Feb 2008 17:01:00 -0500

Penn Jillette ruminates on getting famous.

Seen on New York Times Laugh Lines blog.

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:13:41 -0500

Seen on New York Times Laugh Lines blog.

UC Berkeley Webcasts: The Quality of Calories: What Makes Us Fat and Why Nobody Seems to Care

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 12:49:00 -0500

UC Berkeley Webcasts: The Quality of Calories: What Makes Us Fat and Why Nobody Seems to Care:

A RealMedia webcast of a talk by Gary Taubes at Berkeley. It’s a nearly two-hour long talk about parts of his new book.

Can you hit the bulls-eye?

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:05:37 -0500

Can you hit the bulls-eye?

Boing Boing’s demonstration of the AeroPress. I love mine.

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:54:00 -0500

Boing Boing’s demonstration of the AeroPress. I love mine.

Steven Pinker discusses research showing violence decreased in...

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 08:45:00 -0500

Steven Pinker discusses research showing violence decreased in the progression from hunter-gather societies to our own very inter-connected time.

"What would Tom and Huck do?"

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 06:19:44 -0500

“What would Tom and Huck do?”

- Animal Times: Life on the Mississippi

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Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:45:36 -0400

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Fri, 14 Sep 2007 07:22:22 -0400

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Thu, 06 Sep 2007 21:00:24 -0400

"…I would get rid of software architects and move in as many graphic artists and designers as I..."

Wed, 05 Sep 2007 19:42:03 -0400

“…I would get rid of software architects and move in as many graphic artists and designers as I could because that’s actually what’s hard now. Before it was all architectures and architectural decisions that were hard, now the difficult part is how usable it is, how do they get it?”

- Zed Shaw and Matt Pelletier Decide if Rails is Enterprise Ready