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Part of me thinks, ooh! Buy Berkshire Hathaway in the downturn! But then I think, is ANY stock safe these days? Also interesting: BRK has not particularly outperformed the stock market since the end of the dotcom bubble, although I suspect that has a lot to do with the speculative nature of the market and not the underperformance of BRK's holdings
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Fun list from waxy (of course). Rush remains my favorite
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"My ’76 Honda Civic CVCC was peppy even at highway speeds, often got over 50mpg, and met all emissions standards for the time without a catalytic converter." Whenever I read about fuel economy I keep thinking about the exact same thing. Honda had a Civic HF in the 1980s that got 47 mpg city. Why can't the automakers dumb down their engines a bit, find efficiency instead of power, and sell 50mpg cars? I like speed as much as anyone, but does every car on the market need to go 0-60 in under 6 seconds?
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I heart Improv Everywhere
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Great, great, great album review, and by "album" I mean "15-year explosion of finality"
Category: Internet (Page 15 of 40)
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Love (related: Simon Owens talks to Anil Dash about the program)
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I will miss the quarterly pub–the Times's sports journalism is underrated. (Note that David Foster Wallace's piece on Roger Federer, considered one of the great sports journalism articles, was published by Play.)
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my oh my
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Love the information correlation in these maps
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Makes me want to go abroad next summer, simply so I can take no-cost flights
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Interesting, sensible (and foreboding) post by Nick Denton on how media firms like his should weather the ad slowdown. Also noted: his site has a new Gawker-esque design that pulls his posts from across his web properties. Reminds me that I need to get my Action Streams up and running
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Obama is actually a sci-fi nerd. Somewhere a million D&D fans are smiling
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Noted
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Part of me thinks, quelle horror! Double secret authority for military action! But part of me also thinks, well, there's been next to no anti-US terrorism in all this time, so maybe that's not such a bad thing
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Apparently DST increases, not decreases, energy consumption. C'mon, Congress, scale it back! Please!
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The broadcast debut of Marc Meyers' festival-prizewinning film. And to think I get to say I gave him his start as a writer! Marc, I'm proud and excited–publicly wishing you continued success
(Compiled from several previous auto-feed posts.)
Some more items on the election’s impact:
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George Will on the Republican election loss, mirroring my blog post from yesterday: “more dispiriting than numerically stunning.”
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Experts call it, among other things, “a normal win.” Which sounds about right.
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Tyler Cowen: "Both voting and not voting are motivated by the thought that you are better than other people. I am glad that we have an entire day devoted to this very important concept." Clever bit of absurdist reductionism. And the cringe-inducing comment thread proves his point.
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I think, sadly, that Krugman is right. And I think it might give momentum to my cry for a new political party–social liberal, fiscal conservative. Call it the European party….
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I had to read this twice in the voting booth to understand it. Then I still didn't get it, decided I wasn't against veterans' benefits, and voted for it. Last line of this explanatory web page: "Con: The League can identify no arguments against this proposal." whew
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Reading this, you can hear Nate's inner baseball fan enjoying the parallels of the moment
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As they hope, this makes me want to shop amazon.com for just about everything
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I'm sorry, but once you get to this point, the explanation is basically moot
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And me, in my tag cloud costume. Ah, office Halloween
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Ah, schadenfreude
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Anil and Alaina sitting in a museum…. what a neat gift