Lynne Kiesling Still wondering what to drink with your turkey on Thursday? Josh at The Food Section has a wineblog roundup of wine recommendations for Thanksgiving. Alder Yarrow at Vinography makes a recommendation near and dear to my heart: Domaine Les Pallieres Gigondas, imported into the US by Kermit Lynch: Domaine Les Pallieres lies in …
Lynne Kiesling So far, so good on the MT 3.1 installation. MT-Blacklist plugin and import of the blacklist have gone well. The only goofy thing still going on is that the java scripting for the buttons down the left side of the management and posting pages has made the buttons all overlap. But it’s manageable. …
Lynne Kiesling [NOTE: this post is a continuation of the immediately preceding one.] The second Economist article (subscription required) goes into more detail regarding the problems and proposed reforms. First, the article usefully references Innovation and Its Discontents, a new book on patenting by Adam Jaffe and Josh Lerner (two of the most knowledgeable IP …
Lynne Kiesling This week’s Economist has a couple of good articles about the need for patent law reform. The first one (subscription required), entitled “Monopolies of the Mind”, starts off with a great quote from Thomas Jefferson: PATENTS, said Thomas Jefferson, should draw ?a line between the things which are worth to the public the …
Lynne Kiesling All I can say is uff-dah! Google has released Google Scholar, a search engine that searches more specific scholarly sources. For example, I ran this search on “reactive power”, and it turned up a bunch of useful engineering citations that would be more difficult for me to find through my university library. And …
Lynne Kiesling Some funky stuff is happening here, including comments disappearing without my removing them. I have hit the limit of the old MT-Blacklist and it’s pushing me to upgrade to MT 3.2.12, which should happen this evening if I can entice the KP IT support engineer (i.e., the KP Spouse) to spend a Friday …
Lynne Kiesling On Tuesday afternoon I attended a session at the annual NARUC meetings on the potential for IGCC Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle technology and impediments to investment and implementation. IGCC essentially is a process for turning coal into synthetic natural gas, which puts the coal through a gasifier, extracts pollutants like particulate matter and …
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Lynne Kiesling Please join me in welcoming our first guest-blogger, political scientist Pat Lynch. Pat is a fellow at Liberty Fund, and has done extensive writing on the confluence of economic and political aspects of elections. I hope that the variety that Pat brings to our studiously apolitical site will be thought- and conversation-provoking.
Lynne Kiesling Please join me in welcoming our first guest-blogger, political scientist Pat Lynch. Pat is a fellow at Liberty Fund, and has done extensive writing on the confluence of economic and political aspects of elections. I hope that the variety that Pat brings to our studiously apolitical site will be thought- and conversation-provoking.
Lynne Kiesling Adam’s eloquent tribute to Chicago is one of the most delightful pieces of writing on my hometown that I’ve seen in a very long time. I recommend it highly. And not just because he’s very kind and generous to me, or because he wrote it on my sunporch … but because he captures …
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