Luis suggests an approach to the spam problem: [I]t really seems like it is a shame we probably couldn’t get away with killing a few spammers- because surely you wouldn’t need to do more than 1 or 2 before the point got across very clearly. To put it another way: I don’t think all spammers …
I’m no marketing expert, but it seems to me that Dead Sea Cosmetics is a less than optimal name.
My source for real estate skepticism, Aaron, has an update: [T]he number of places in my neighborhood for sale keeps piling up– $500k condos, $900k single-families, that kind of thing. So thought I’d look around to see if there’s any news about that impending real-estate disaster I keep thinking is just around the corner. Remember, …
My friend Luis, who was thinking hard and well about this stuff before he went to law school, co-links to my recent post on the blog-media-scholarship nexus and this Mike Madison post. There apparently is a discussion afoot in academic law circles about the blog, to whit: Is it scholarship? Madison suggests the question is …
Just so there’s no confusion, this is not me: At least, I think it’s not me. I’d remember that. Wouldn’t I?
Jeffrey Lewis with some amusing backstory on my story last week about Iran’s nuclear program.
reading: Linda Cordell’s Archaeology of the Southwest. This is one of those standards that you’re supposed to have lying around to refer to, but who actually reads these? (I am, actually. Great overview of what’s known.) music: Stevie Ray Vaughn and Dick Dale doing Pipeline. Do they have waves in Texas? bonus extra track: Don …
I’ve been riding my bike to work lately when I can. I can’t always do it, because some days I need a car to go out on interviews. Herein lies my greenhouse guilt dilemma. According to this analysis, cycling to work will cause a net increase in greenhouse gas emissions over my lifetime. While in …
Proof I am not a one trick pony. Apparently Iran is trying to build nuclear weapons. Who knew?
Years ago Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert were on Letterman, and Dave was complaining about the problem posed for movie audiences when one of them gave a movie a thumbs up and the other a thumbs down. Dave came up with a brilliant solution: he had them shoot basketball free throws for it. As many …