Lynne Kiesling Today Wired News has an interesting commentary entitled “Like It or Not, Blogs Have Legs”, from Adam Penenberg of the NYU School of Journalism. In addition to his sharing my dislike of the word “blog”, Penenberg shares with me a lot of beliefs and perspectives on how meaningful and valuable this current gale …
Lynne Kiesling There are several ways to commute to Evanston from our house, and none of them is particularly simple or superior to the other. Usually I take the #22 bus 10 blocks down Clark to Belmont, where I catch the Evanston Express train. The KP Spouse, on the other hand, takes the #22 bus …
Lynne Kiesling There are several ways to commute to Evanston from our house, and none of them is particularly simple or superior to the other. Usually I take the #22 bus 10 blocks down Clark to Belmont, where I catch the Evanston Express train. The KP Spouse, on the other hand, takes the #22 bus …
Lynne Kiesling When I was back in my hometown in December for a conference, there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth about the future for US Airways. Bankruptcy, etc. Over dinner when I got home I speculated to the KP Spouse about whether or not Pittsburgh would be an attractive city for Southwest Airlines. …
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Michael Giberson Randall Parker at FuturePundit discusses research that suggests that being in love makes it harder for a person to assess the degree of emotional involvement of other couples. As he puts it: People who were in love and other people who were not in love were asked to view film clips of couples …
Lynne Kiesling IBM has announced that it will choose not to enforce 500 patents that it holds for code that is used in many open-source applications and environments. From today’s Wall Street Journal (subscription required): The technology company announced today a pledge that it hopes will establish a sort of “patent commons” on which open-source …
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Michael Giberson Tyler Cowen, at Marginal Revolution, says he’s been reading a new book by Peter Huber and Mark Mills called The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy. Cowen cited a few of the “seven great heresies” that the book asserts, including …
Lynne Kiesling The January issue of Wired is full of all sorts of interesting articles. I particularly enjoyed the interview with Jeff Bezos, and Glenn Reynolds remarked on the same comment that I found interesting: Do physical bookstores have anything to offer that Amazon doesn’t? One thing is face-to-face meetings with authors. And what Howard …
Lynne Kiesling On Saturday the KP Spouse, Amy the KP Buddy and I took a knife skills class at The Chopping Block, a great local resource for those who like to cook. Very useful and informative, and very likely to improve our cooking. But in the course of the class the instructor, who is a …
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Lynne Kiesling I am posting this comment for Robert Schwartz, who for some reason was unable to get through the spam filter. Lynne: You were not alone in your reading of the Judge’s statement. I, also, was flummoxed and commented at the esteemed Becker Posner Blog: http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/archives/2005/01/the_tsunami_and.html#comments
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