Sunday, December 31, 2006

Books of the Year

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There were a few articles recently in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times about the new face of Philantropy: in an age of global ...
Saturday, December 30, 2006

Review: Veronica Mars Season 2

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Last year's viewing of Veronica Mars Season 1 left Lisa & I blown away by how smart, how intelligently written, and well constructe...
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Thursday, December 28, 2006

Gapminder's Video on Global Poverty

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While debating with Scarlet over on her blog about poverty and what to do about it , I remembered the Gapminder presentation at Google, wh...
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Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Review: MacTech magazine

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I got this magazine because MacTech was running a special offer on their magazine. Since I'd just acquired a MacMini, I thought that thi...

Review: The Way to Win

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While I'm an economics and public policy junkie, I am not a political junkie, and don't enjoy politics, especially not modern politi...
Sunday, December 24, 2006

New Wheels for the Fuji

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I'd been riding the American Classic 350 wheels that came with my Fuji Team SL over the last year or so. As wheels go, they work. But t...
Saturday, December 23, 2006

Review: The Long Tail

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I picked up this book when Chris Anderson visited Google quite a while back, and only got around to reading it now. It's a good book, w...
Sunday, December 17, 2006

Review: Rainbow's End, by Vernor Vinge

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After winning last year's best fiction , I looked forward to a repeat performance in Vinge's latest novel. Rainbow's End follow...

Rotadent Review

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Just on a review tear lately =) Over the years, I've used many automated toothbrushes...it all started when the first of my 3 root canal...
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Nike+Ipod Review

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So I bought this about 5 weeks ago. I have an iPod Nano, so I figure what the heck. Its' going for 25 bucks at amazon.com, at the wors...
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Guu vs PowerGel vs HammerGel

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So, one side effect there is of running and biking a lot is that you eat a lot. While you run or while you bike....Its been about 6 months ...
Saturday, December 16, 2006

The New York Times magazine about Philantropy

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After reading this article, I feel like I'm a selfish bastard. But I still find it difficult for me to consider poverty relief a compell...

Brad DeLong tears Alan Reynolds apart

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Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal: Fair and Balanced Almost Every Day: Intellectual Garbage Collection: The Unreliability of Alan Reynold...
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Friday, December 08, 2006

Review: Warped Passages, Unraveling the Mysteries of The Universe's Hidden Dimensions

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This turned out to be a really tough book to read. I'm sure it was hard to write too, since Lisa Randall carefully managed to write the ...

An article about Passive Investing

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San Francisco magazine had a great article about investment and investing advice. It also has several interesting bits about how Jonathan R...
Saturday, December 02, 2006

I can tell that the end of the year is approaching...

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The number of investment questions coming to me keep going up, and some of the questions are kind of poignant, indicating a lack of attentio...
Friday, December 01, 2006

The Worst Investment Strategy

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The Worst Investment Strategy By James Freeman The Securities and Exchange Commission, as a matter of policy, disclaims responsibility for a...
Monday, November 27, 2006

Lick Observatory In Sight!

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Enjoying Tea with Elinor on top of Mt. Hamilton

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It's good to have friends in high places! 

Piaw & Sy on Mt. Hamilton

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