Monthly Archives: October 2009

Open Internet Coalition –> Net Neutrality

http://www.openinternetcoalition.org/ Their latest effort to lobby the FCC.

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Why you should never agree to be interviewed by the police

Don’t Talk to Cops.

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Google’s Street View trike

http://www.google.com/trike

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Libertarians will love this movie. — Pirate Radio

Pirate Radio

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Health Care Reform — Florida Governor Charlie Crist & California Attorney General Jerry Brown

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Google Wave is built for the corporate environment. It’s a tool for getting work done.

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PredictionBook

PredictionBook is a new prediction tracking site, as described at LessWrong, which: lets you make predictions and then track your calibration – see whether things you assigned a 70% probability happen 7 times out of 10. The major challenge with … Continue reading

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A cute sticker for your Apple Macintosh

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Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman bends Steve Levitt’s ear.

Paul Krugman: And that’s not acceptable. This is a serious issue. We’re not talking about the ethics of sumo wrestling here; we’re talking, quite possibly, about the fate of civilization. It’s not a place to play snarky, contrarian games.

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What Do Al Gore and Mount Pinatubo Have in Common?

Super Freakonomics — Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner – (co-authors of Freakonomics and SuperFreakonomics) http://delong.typepad.com/files/superfreakonomics-chapter-5.pdf UPDATE: Steve Dubner + Andrew Gelman + Brad DeLong Next: Ken Caldeira about how his work was misrepresented in SuperFreakonomics —as well as … Continue reading

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