This is quite funny.
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I woke up between 11:30-12, soon after I had gone to sleep last night, to hear a fireworks show that lasted for what seemed an hour. I could hear people screaming/cheering and police sirens coming from nearby in the University District of Seattle, where I live. For a while, I was also somewhat scared because [...] Writing books about the Obama Administration is a lucrative business for journalists, particularly those who can get inside access. From the Washington Post: When it comes to pursuing sources, the authors who work for major news organizations have a key advantage. They are in regular touch with Obama aides for their day jobs and can obtain [...] This is funny, unfortunately because it is so often true. Engineer Peter Yanev writes in the New York Times that the West Coast (in particular, the Pacific Northwest, like Seattle, where I currently reside) of the United States is less prepared than Chile was for a major earthquake. We should expect much more devastation and more casualties if a quake of a similar magnitude hits [...] Robert Scoble has an interesting post a while back on how Google is becoming the next Microsoft. Apparently, Eric Schmidt was quoted as saying, “We don’t want to work on problems that only affect a small number of people,” which Scoble takes as meaning that the chances that Google comes up with the next big [...] “This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will [...] From the latest edition of Nature: The findings could help researchers to improve their understanding of the fluctuations in solar activity that can, at their peak, scramble electricity grids and throw Global-Positioning-System devices off by dozens of metres. Yikes! Sounds dangerous, considering all the devices that rely on GPS. Note that coronal mass ejections, a type of [...] From Bill Easterly’s blog post: …extreme dissatisfaction with aid agencies who ignore even the most obvious signs that some aid effort is not working. (Example cited in the Brookings book: a World Bank computer kiosk program in India celebrated as a “success” in its “Empowerment” sourcebook. Except that the computers sat in places without functioning electricty or Internet [...] 1. Bill Easterly: Nobody wants your old shoes: How not to help in Haiti 2. New York Times: Big Benefits Are Seen From Eating Less Salt 3. Tyler Cowen and The Economist / Free Exchange: The end of Haiti? |
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