Archive for December, 2006
Another Bowl Loss….
The Houston Cougars went down 44-36 to the South Carolina Gamecocks. A gamecock, if you didn’t know, is a “strong, colorful, and territorial type of chicken.” Knowing that only makes me feel marginally better. Exciting game, good finish, blah blah blah blah blah… another bowl loss is all it is to me.
Reading: Sudhir Ventakesh, Off the Books
With a finite amount of time before Contracts starts, I decided my next read is going to be Sudhir Ventakesh’s Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor. Ventakesh was a colleague of Steve Levitt’s (Freakonomics) whom I’ve discussed here and here. Levitt and Dubner discussed Ventakesh’s work with Chicago gangs at length […]
Route 1 North, Presque Isle, Maine
It’s been almost a decade - the postcard I just got for my 10 year reunion confirms this - yet I still cannot get the following song lyrics out of my head:
Star City, Presque Isle
Star City, Mile for Mile
North-east Corner of America
Star of Maine, Presque Isle
I’ve been thinking about my home town today, which made […]
I’ve been Elfed
View it here. Gee thanks Jessie. Ever heard of defamation? ;-)
Photoshop CS3 Beta Released, 2-day tryout
I think I’m going to pick these 2 days carefully. Wired has details and screenshots. My mouth is watering.
Pluggd, Making Audio Searchable
Since Google and other search engines only index text, there’s a vast and growing amount of content hidden away in audio and video files. Pluggd lifts the veil by indexing audio content. Great app.
Malcolm Gladwell addresses racism and a short taxonomy of racial gaffs a la Richards, Gibson, Irvin et al.
New Yorker columnist and author Malcolm Gladwell weighs in on the recent outbursts of Michael Richards, Mel Gibson, and Michael Irvin on his blog in Defining a Racist. He brings up one of the most interesting aspects of Blink, empirical evidence that most of us are more racist than we think. He focused on a […]