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Category Archive: Asides
"Ideas, if professionalized, become precious personal property—: a decline in value produces serious emotions[.]" From Meyer Schapiro in the current issue of the NY Review of Books. Many applications across public and private life. — # 12/23/2008
Numbers racket:Why the economy is worse than we know By Kevin P. Phillips — # 12/5/2008
Total URLs in Sitemap: 1002
Indexed URLs in Sitemap: 59 (6%) — # 12/3/2008
The Treasury Department is considering a plan to revitalize the U.S. housing market by reducing mortgage rates for new home loans ... The plan, which is in the development stages, would use mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to bring loan rates down as low as 4.5%, a full percentage point lower than the prevailing rates for 30-year fixed mortgages.via Calculated Risk — # 12/3/2008
Brad DeLong reminds us what John Keynes felt was necessary to pull the country out of a deep recession that followed the great depression. In that is this nugget which would be good to remember as we focus on propping up failing banks:
(4) I must not encumber this letter with technical suggestions for reviving the capital market. This is important. But not so important as the revival of sources of demand. If demand and confidence reappear, the problems of the capital market will not seem so difficult as they do today. Moreover it is a highly technical problem.— # 12/3/2008
Has Edward Tufte ever presented at TED? If not, why not? Answer: Yes he has. I can't find a video however. Perhaps they weren't taking video at the time. — # 11/28/2008
This really does sum up The Wire perfectly:
Simon makes it clear that the show’s ambitions were grand. “ ‘The Wire’ is dissent,” he says. “It is perhaps the only storytelling on television that overtly suggests that our political and economic and social constructs are no longer viable, that our leadership has failed us relentlessly, and that no, we are not going to be all right.”— # 01/7/2008
Truly we have reached the singularity. The wphone plugin combines two of today's best technologies; the iPhone (or in my case the iPod touch and wordpress. Additionally, I now understand why not having copy and paste capabilities on this device is such a big deal. — # 11/21/2007
This is a test post from my new iPod touch. This might be the coolest thing I've ever used. — # 11/20/2007
Rounding out this collection (not to say series) of plugin-related links, In Series. Next up, why doesn't textile2 work with the asides category? — # 10/24/2007
This may become necessary. Expanding this blog to have private and public sections is under deep consideration. — # 10/24/2007
Good explanation of joins complete with some helpful Venn diagrams. This will be helpful as the great baseball project continues. — # 10/24/2007
Over six years ago: "I'd like some assurance that they’re going to last through the summer, much less two years." — # 06/20/2007
Back in 2001, Modern Humorist did a series of "Father's Day cards sent to Rudy Giuliani":http://www.modernhumorist.com/mh/0106/giuliani/index.fm by his family. I'm in shock that the link still works (I originally "linked to it at the time":http://levingar.com/posts/modern-humorist-mayor-dad/), but more importantly, these can provide endless minutes of fun for Democrats and "family values" Republicans as the Giuliani candidacy continues. — # 06/20/2007
Via Brad DeLong, "On Albert Einstein" by Robert Oppenheimer from 1966. "As always, the myth has its charms; but the truth is far more beautiful." And when I think of Eistein, I think of what he said about Gandhi, "Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this walked the earth in flesh and blood." — # 05/31/2007
At the end of his career, Josh Marshall will be remembered as one of the leading journalists of the age. And his career is in its early adolescence. Today he explains the great Republican Voter Fraud Chase. — # 04/12/2007
Dethroner looks at golf clubs. It's been a while since they tackled something useful from my perspective. — # 04/2/2007
At some point I need to get one of these and set it up. — # 03/29/2007
Marshall Ganz on TPM Cafe today writes a nice brief history of organizing in the US. — # 03/27/2007