Today’s Wall Street Journal (subscription required) has a great front-page article on morel mushroom hunters. It highlights one in particular, and gives a lot of insights into how these entrepreneurs make markets, and make markets work better. When he loaded his family into a beat-up white Chevy van and drove here in May from his …
I’m having a Stephen Bainbridge day … his Tech Central Station article from last week on the impending Supreme Court case over interstate wine shipment sums up the issues nicely. He notes the hypocrisy of the claim that the bans are meant to prevent underage drinking, when in fact it’s bald-faced rent seeking: It cannot …
I commend Stephen Bainbridge for his summer reading plan to reread the entire Jeeves-Wooster cycle. “Ring for Jeeves” is great, and I concur with his observations on it. Before the great flurry of packing boxes and shuffling around, I was reading some early Jeeves-Wooster stories out loud to my husband. Even without the British accent …
Because of house and work I’ve missed much of the gas price hoopla over the past month. Others have been paying attention, though, and I recommend this post from Steve Verdon for its wealth of quantitative analysis and information. Retail gasoline prices react to crude oil prices in a “rocket and feathers” pattern: when crude …
This Wired article profiles <a href=”http://www.garageband.com”GarageBand.com: Musicians who want to share and promote their music on the Net have yet another tool to help them reach eager listeners. GarageBand.com — a site that both hosts independent music and uses a peer-review process to identify hot bands — is offering the Creative Commons Music Sharing License …
Stupid me, what’s my favorite sport? Hockey. What happened last night? Game 7. Who arranged the Harry Potter schedule? Me. Doh! But the highlights looked great. I was pulling for Tampa because I think they generally play a cleaner game than Calgary, and it’s great to have players like Dave Andreychuk hoist the Cup after …
Saw POA last night, loved it. The filter color change in the filming made the whole atmosphere appropriately more gothic. Gary Oldman lived up to my high expectations as Sirius; he managed to be an over-the-top madman at points and a compassionate and generous person at others, hard to carry off. Loved the Dementors. Loved …
Declan McCullagh’s article advocating the abolition of the FCC is a must-read, even if you disagree with him (for the record, I don’t). In fact, he argues that the FCC may now be downright counterproductive: Consider some examples of bureaucratic malfeasance that the FCC, with the complicity of the U.S. Congress, has committed. The FCC …
Last week while I was in my work-and-house frenzy I missed an interesting anniversary: the bicentennial of the birth of Richard Cobden, one of my favorite people from British history. Cobden and his Quaker friend John Bright founded the Anti-Corn-Law League, which fought the protectionist legislation put into place to restrict wheat imports after Napoleon’s …
Today Apple announced a new wireless mobile base station that also will stream music to your stereo. How awesome is this? We’ve been talking about whether to have the electrician string speaker wire and ethernet (he’ll probably do CAT-5 and some ethernet), but between the AirPort Express, Bluetooth-enabled speakers, and laptops, we won’t have to …
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