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Winter is coming

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

From the man himself: HBO has given the production order.  They will be filming the pilot episode of A GAME OF THRONES. It’s just the pilot so far. They’ll need to see that before they decide whether to proceed with a full season’s episodes. So let’s all hope the pilot will kick serious ass. It [...]

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A thought experiment

Monday, October 27, 2008

You think a lot about what other people have. You think about how they have money that you don’t, or screw hot chicks and you don’t, or how you have twenty pounds of ass fat that they don’t. At grocery checkouts this tendency is at its most garish. Think about it: what fucking sensible reason [...]

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Markets again

Sunday, October 26, 2008

One of the principal troubles with a certain class of people is a staunch belief that markets are the Baby Jesus. Daniel talked about this yesterday, but this analysis on the implications of Greenspan’s ‘confession’ got me all riled up for another take: The failure of the Efficient Markets Hypothesis is, perhaps, an even more [...]

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On the cyborgs in the Manhattan streets

Thursday, October 23, 2008

I’m back from NYC and you know what I saw a lot of? People who had merged with machines. Yes, a few of these were freaky cyborgs, like cars with human heads, or cats with little computers embedded in their brains and controlled remotely by their human owners. Vastly outnumbering these folks, though, were more-or-less [...]

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Don’t kill me for this

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

but even if you don’t care about politics, this is something you should care about, which is an innovative way to look at data. Yeah, I know good viz seems like the solitary territory of the reclusive superdork, but this stuff matters to your real life. I remained convinced that when people have the ability [...]

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