Lynne Kiesling The Supreme Court is hearing the interstate wine shipment case today. Two widely-read newspapers opine on the matter, and both agree: free the grapes! From the USA Today: The wine issue is not just a narrow legal one, but part of a broad pattern of state laws designed to shield well-connected industries from …
Lynne Kiesling My friend Adam over at Arthur’s Seat has announced the first annual Clerihew competition. Please click through for full details, but the bottom line is a 4-line poem with two rhyming couplets. Entries to be accepted through 20 December. This will be fun! Diane, you know what you need to do …
Lynne Kiesling Tim Worstall has a very entertaining post on a UK patent application. For those of you who, like me, thrive on dry British wit, do make sure to click through to the .pdf of the deputy patent examiner’s response to this particular application, which appears to be a wooly attempt to claim prior …
Lynne Kiesling Last week Mike wrote this depressing post about the potentially pathetic fate of BPL at the hands of the regulatory focus on cost recovery. In the comments to the post the topic of interference came up; in particular, shortwave radio operators have expressed concern that the data transmissions over power lines will interfere …
Lynne Kiesling Yesterday the KP Spouse and I got the tree (a 6′ blue spruce, yum!), decorated it, baked and cooked, and went for a lovely long walk. The first part of our walk took us down Clark Street, past Wrigley Field. Here it was, December 5, temperature in the 40s, and what do we …
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Lynne Kiesling Thanks to all of you delightful and wonderful readers who have submitted comments in the past few days. My apologies for being slow in approving them. I was out giving a talk at West Virginia University on Friday, and spent the weekend doing holiday house prep, tree, etc. Of course, if you want …
Lynne Kiesling Yesterday the New York Times had an article on a new method of producing hydrogen from electrolysis using nuclear power (registration required). The new technique still is not a net production of energy, but it has drastically cut the amount of energy required to isolate the hydrogen: The heart of the plan is …
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Lynne Kiesling In catching up on the mail and newspaper yesterday after returning home, I was excited to read Virginia Postrel’s Wall Street Journal Weekend section column on shopping and fashion magazines (subscription required). Virginia sees an independence and creativity in the emergence and popularity of shopping magazines relative to old fashion stalwarts like Vogue …
Lynne Kiesling Thanks to the invaluable Will Wilkinson for his link to this U. of C. Chronicle article profiling Ronald Coase: Coase said that ?it?s very difficult to imagine a system that would work better than one with private property rights and a market: mechanisms that have proved themselves repeatedly against regimes where central authority …
Lynne Kiesling One nice thing about the MT 3.1 upgrade is that the TrackBack function is much more intuitive and painless. So we’re TrackBackers now here at KP … There is still some goofy stuff with the Java scripting, and it sure looks different depending on the OS and the browser I use. But so …
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