If you live around the area in New Hampshire, you may be interested in this story.

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Alexander Payne relates the cutest story ever.

It had to belong to the girl with dark hair by the counter. I saw her when I got my coffee. Took note, lovely. Her. Her?

There is no music on my PowerBook. I offloaded my library to a drive that is to remain perpetually hooked up to my new Mac mini, serving away at home. ( Read more... )

The Story

An indignant Israeli is suing a pet shop that he says sold him a dying parrot, reports the Ma'ariv newspaper. Itzik Simowitz of the southern city of Beersheba contends the shop cheated him because the Galerita-type cockatoo not only failed to utter a word when he got it home, but was also extremely ill. Mr. Simowitz adds that the shop ( Read more... )

François-René Rideau writes about unity and independence.

It's about needing someone who wants peace, prosperity, independence and above and beyond all, unity.

Can't you see the contradiction between unity and all the former things? Unity means that everyone is to do the same. This directly contradicts independence. Unity and ( Read more... )

Bryan Caplan comments on Saw.

The premise of Saw is straight out of intro micro: two men wake up chained in a room together, and soon learn that at most one gets out alive. And the execution is straight out of experimental economics: The characters' first instinct is not to try to kill each other, but to cooperate.

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French Basketball

Tyler Cowen links to the market for football possessions.

...[in] the "Field Position Auction" proposal we submitted to the N.F.L. at the end of the 2002-3 season. In it, the loser of the overtime coin flip decides the yard line where the offense starts, and the winner chooses between taking the ball or starting on defense. We would ( Read more... )

I've told people about this personally before, but in case you are interested, there is a website called Do They All Look The Same? that tests your ability to identify Asian looking people.

All Look Same?

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