Lynne Kiesling Welcome Instapundit readers, and thanks to Glenn Reynolds for his link to my recent post about price controls in Venezuela. I hope you find thought-provoking and interesting economics content here. I’m glad you’re here.
Lynne Kiesling I am playing a little hooky this weekend and going skiing through Monday. In the interim, here are some thought-provoking reads: This Technology Review article on technological change in small-scale coal gasification that could be done on-site, in the home. Michael Dell is back in the news today, after taking back the CEO …
Lynne Kiesling OK, I’ve changed the color scheme a bit and cleaned up a few things that had hindered, for example, trackbacks from registering. We’ll see if I’ve managed to fix it. I think the permalink and archive pages are also now a little more readable, although if anyone out there has some quick MT …
Lynne Kiesling OK, two hours I didn’t have, spent re-posting three weeks of lost posts … at least it was over the holidays, so we were on light volume! Many comments were lost, for which I apologize. Two things made it possible for me to recover from my idiocy (I thought I had backed up …
Lynne Kiesling Hi there. How are you? I’m fine. I hope you had a good holiday. We had a slight crisis here over the past few days, because on New Year’s Day I tried to clean up the MT installation here, with disastrous consequences. I’ve had to ask the hosting company to restore from backup, …
Michael Giberson Are blonds more fun? Researchers at the University of Cordoba in Spain have concluded that blonds “exhibit the most dominant and aggressive behavior.” The tests looked at how quickly a person could capture a puppy’s attention, how well puppies followed the individual, how the dogs behaved while restrained, how they exerted their social …
Lynne Kiesling If not, then I recommend adding these seasonal music streams to your rotation: WOXY holiday mixer SOMAfm’s Xmas in Frisko SOMAfm’s Christmas Lounge I have not listened to the Christmas Lounge, but SOMA says it’s kid safe. SOMA’s Xmas in Frisko is a regular feature of our holiday schedule, and I’m glad that …
Michael Giberson A game for fans is finding new fans for the game of football. A Washington Post story reports that the realism packed into EA Sports’ Madden NFL games has helped recruit a new wave of fans. I was going to make some observation about unintended consequences, but the article beat me to it: …
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Lynne Kiesling Good news: I am in Golden, Colorado, where I’ve been attending a GridWise Architecture Council meeting, so I am not stuck in the snowstorm beating down on Chicago. Bad news: I am in Golden, Colorado, and who knows if I’ll get home late this afternoon as scheduled? UPDATE: called AA, my flight was …
Lynne Kiesling As I’ve mentioned here before, I update the blogroll with a lag; I tend to read a lot of things through my RSS aggregator, and then put them here so I can access them without opening Bloglines. Two new links here, but sites I read regularly, are Mark Thoma’s Economist’s View and The …
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