With the whole "sweeping mandate" thing that seems to be coming along with Barack Obama's victory, I thought that it was worth a look at what the "conservative" set had to say about things. Seems they're being more quiet than typical, but the folks at Redstate don't stop writing ( Read more... )

I am glad to have been proven wrong.

I can now only hope that Obama does a good job as President. He certainly can't do much worse.

Two "big" things, and then a bunch of "smaller" bullet points ( Read more... )

I can't believe that the K-Hawks are pinning their season hopes on unretiring Gary Gait. It's kind of tough to recover week after week when you're over 40 and playing a contact sport.

If you own a laptop, you should install this. Now.

http://adeona.cs.washington.edu/

It's kind of like having LoJack on your laptop, for free.

Am I the only person who thinks that Aurora is a horrible idea that no one will actually quite understand, or enjoy actually using?

This mashup kind of makes my brain hurt.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/28/business/media/28snoop.html

The rapper once dubbed "America’s Most Loveable Pimp" by Rolling Stone makes his debut in India this summer, with a guest appearance on the title track ( Read more... )

Levitt@Freakonomics tells a story about how he once proved what I knew intuitively: that wines, in general, don't actually taste that different from one another. He also provides a link to an academic working paper that proves out his experiment with a much larger dataset.

The money quote:
What lesson should we take from this? No matter what, do ( Read more... )

The U.S. House of Representatives just passed a bill that should hold back the Alternative Minimum tax for next year, assuming that it passes the Senate largely intact and gets signed ( Read more... )

I never actually mentioned it here, but chite won her competition! (With all your help, of course.)

Her triumph in the final three looked something like this at the end:
( Win! )