This link is for a test to see how good you are at detecting phishing attempts. The almost certain answer is “not very good.” The test is ten questions long, and includes explanations afterward. If you don’t really know much about “computers” I suggest you take the test so it becomes clear how little you [...]
This post from the “Creative Class” guy Richard Florida is so short I’ll quote it in full: Political scientist, Andrew Gelman has some great graphs on the connection between economics and ideology. Comparing income levels, ideology and party idenitification, he and collaborator Daniel Lee found the connection between income and party identification was strongest among [...]
is the best movie I’ve seen in recent memory, and really inspiring, which you might find surprising since it’s bleak and awful and makes you hate humanity. But the inspiring thing is that it uses a science fiction setting to really address some hard issues. I said to Monica: some people will leave theaters thinking [...]
Saturday, August 15, 2009
I’ve been trying not to talk about health care lately, because the whole affair just gets me so worked up. When I imagine shoddy levels of care, overrun by government bureaucrats, like the sort they have to deal with in Europe: Unfortunately for celiac patients, the extra cost of a special diet is not reimbursed [...]
I’m not sure if I’ve ever told anyone this before, but there are a couple Shane-invented holidays that I celebrate, or used to celebrate. Christmas and Thanksgiving are well and good, but I think it’s important to put your mark on time, and divide it up in some way particular to your own world and [...]
I post this excerpt from The Hitch less because I care to discuss this topic, and more because I am so in love with the acid wit, the elegance of phrasing, and the sort of gentlemanly disarray that you can feel emanating off any page blessed with his scrawlings: More recently, I was walking at [...]