June 2010
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May 2010
1 post
April 2010
4 posts
10 Google Tricks →
Growth of Unpaid Internships May Be Illegal,... →
A much needed crackdown on an awful growing trend.
RETIRE AT 40. →
March 2010
26 posts
The 15 Money Rules Kids Should Learn →
These tips are also useful for adults who never learned the money rules. The box in the right hand margin on basic investing terms are OK too. Here’s to being solvent.
Going Beyond Google to Find a Lost Friend →
NYT offers tips on how to stalk people on the web.
Guy Kawasaki on managing and dumbshit jobs →
Vermountaining
We all go skiing in VT—my favorite place on earth! Here’s a little snapshot of no civilization, which I took via iPhone:
The death of the RSVP →
Lately I’ve noticed how often people are late or just flake out altogether. For a moment, I thought it was my fault—poor planning on my behalf, or maybe I’m just intolerable. But after waiting around for one date after the next, I realized this noncommittal disease is a widespread epidemic!
It kind of goes back to the study that shows too many choices to be debilitating....
The Israel-Palestine peace process →
A good bit from Haaretz on the recent announcement in Israel, i.e. the timing, Biden, et al.
Oh man, this is cute. →
This is a true story. A friend of mine, an English girl, moved to New York and, soon after arriving, romantically acquired a local boyfriend. Shortly after that they were both invited to a party. It would be, she was told, fancy-dress. Fancy-dress parties, unlike emotional openness, child care, and pedicures, are one of those inconsequential and nebulous little things that the English take with an...
“There is something I must tell you, Natasha. You see, I have never been to Africa or to India. It’s all a lie. I am now nearly thirty, but, apart from two or three Russian towns and a dozen villages, and this forlorn country, I have not seen anything. Please forgive me.”
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“How I dream, Natasha, how I dream,” he was saying, waving a small, whistling stick. “Am I really lying when I...
House Leaders Bar Earmarks to For-Profit Companies
“The ban is the most aggressive step yet in a three-year effort in Congress to curb abuses in the awarding of earmarks, which direct that federal money be spent in a very specific way. The move follows criminal investigations, ethics inquiries and political embarassment linked to the use of earmarks.”
Capital!
Read the article here:
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Main Entry: Munchausen syndrome by proxy
Function: noun
Date: 1977
: a psychological disorder in which a parent and typically a mother harms her child (as by poisoning), falsifies the child’s medical history, or tampers with the child’s medical specimens in order to create a situation that requires or seems to require medical attention —called also Munchausen’s syndrome by proxy
Coffee shops to try, as per NYT. I extracted only the Manhattan spots, but it’s still pretty ambitious.
ABRAÇO There’s barely room enough for six standing adults, never mind the dozen or more who can crowd in during prime time. And yet in this cramped space the baristas turn out some of the city’s best cappuccinos and drip coffee. There’s a small, exquisite selection of baked goods,...
pictures from southampton
The New Republic delivers a few facts about...
The New Republic delivers a few facts about plastic which I never knew!
http://www.tnr.com/blog/the-vine/thrilling-breakthroughs-plastics-no-really
“In theory, it’s possible to recycle many plastics, but that’s not cheap or easy—most of the seven varieties can only be recycled at very high temperatures, which requires a lot of energy. In most areas, it’s largely just PET...
Too Many Choices: A Problem That Can Paralyze →
This article explains everything: Why I can’t commit. Why I hate and love variety and the cache. Why this will all certainly ruin my life and prevent me from finding someone I love and having a family or holding down a job.
David Brooks on the Power Elite →
I’ve mentioned this article more than a handful of times in the last few conversations I’ve had with my friends. I’m often talking about how I took a wrong turn in life somewhere, but this article reassured me that society, in fact, took a wrong turn in life somewhere.
3-person tete-a-tetes a la gmail
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 11:07 AM, stephanie lee wrote: > > > Hi, > > I have some ideas for tomorrow. > > First, can we still go out and buy our diaries?! > > Second, I think we should buy a grip of international envelopes (the > cute ones bordered with blue and red) and some stamps and have them > filled...
Marxist jokes I stole from McSweeney's!
Why did the Marxist-Socialist cross the road?
To get to the Marxist-Socialist sit-in on the other side of the road.
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How many Marxist-Socialists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Two. One to screw in the light bulb, one to lament Milton Friedman’s laissez-faire economic policies.
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What’s the difference between a Marxist-Socialist and a Keynesian economist?
Several things,...
February 2010
1 post
On Wall Street, a Romance With Curling →
I love curling and so do Wall St. traders. I love curling so much it makes me kind of resentful towards my parents for not grooming me to be an olympic curler.
January 2010
2 posts
From Fish to Infinity →
A weekly NYT blog that’s been changing my perception of numbers. Read for more on the ways in which numbers and math can be viewed as forms of abstract art.
Fundamental attribution error
Just-world hypothesis: The belief that people get what they deserve and deserve what they get, which was first theorized by Melvin Lerner. Attributing failures to dispositional causes rather than situational causes, which are unchangeable and uncontrollable, satisfies our need to believe that the world is fair and we have control over our life. We are motivated to see a just world because this...
November 2009
1 post
To Reviewer From Updike
John Updike published his first book review in this magazine in the September 16, 1961, issue, at the age of twenty-nine. The book under consideration was, somehow fittingly, “Parodies: An Anthology from Chaucer to Beerbohm—And After,” by Dwight Macdonald. Over the next forty-seven years, he surveyed vast tectonic plates of world literature; he was hungry to know it all. In keeping with his...
April 2009
1 post
The 2009 edition of UNESCO's Atlas of the World's... →
March 2009
15 posts
Read My Riveting Backgrounder on the Group of 20... →
Paris on the cheap! →
How to DFW-ize your sentences →
Currently, I am
Book reviewing. Deadline Friday night. 3 caffeinated sodas deep.
“Ian McEwan pointed to a “study in cognitive psychology” suggesting that “the...”
– http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/02/23/090223fa_fact_zalewski
Here is what a trillion dollars looks like →
My interview on the 92Y website! →
