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"Fed Considers Sweeping Rules on Bank Pay"

craig — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 05:37:00 -0400

I think it's a bad idea. But I would consider supporting the change if the proposed rules were also applied to the Fed's managers, the executive branch, and Congress. read more »

"The Autodidact Course Catalog"

craig — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:23:00 -0500

Johns Hopkins faculty outline mini-courses on various topics . Includes "How These Things Work: Business Management Writ Large". I'd skip Berle and Means, but the Mokyr, Hayek, and Chandler volumes are good for autodidacts or anybody else. Link via Metafilter .
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The new hotness in exercise . . .

craig — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:21:00 -0500

. . . is "interval" or high-intensity training . It might even help reduce heart disease and Type II diabetes .
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"The world's oldest cities"

craig — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:14:00 -0500

From the U.K. Telegraph : "Featuring quotes and interesting facts, we list the world's 20 oldest continually-inhabited cities ."
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"The 25 Funniest Sportscenter Commercials"

craig — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:12:00 -0500

Most of these were great .
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"America's Safest [Big] Cities"

craig — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:32:00 -0500

Forbes analysis using four factors: violent crime, workplace fatality rate, traffic death rate, and natural disaster risk. Minneapolis-St. Paul wins and Miami-Fort Lauderdale loses. Surprising to me was the city that ranked worst on the workplace fatality rate: Indianapolis.
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"The Dentist Can Prove Why You Are a Worthless, Irresponsible Human Being"

craig — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:29:00 -0500

A small bit of genius .
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"What's replacing P2P, BitTorrent as pirate hangouts?"

craig — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:27:00 -0500

The crackdown on BitTorrent has just moved unauthorized copying to a venue much harder to police .
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"Clueless: Where Are They Now?"

craig — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:26:00 -0500

Most of the stars, except maybe Christian, have done all right .
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"Petabytes on a budget"

craig — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:45:00 -0500

Interesting account of how a firm called Backblaze constructs huge amounts of cloud storage inexpensively . They need to because they offer unlimited, automatic backup over the Internet for just $5/month (per computer and "except your operating system, applications, temporary files, or th
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