NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: This Weekend: Free Broadcast of Foresight Conference.
Archive for 2010
January 15, 2010
U.S. FACING A SERIOUS geek shortage.
JIM TREACHER IS HELPING OUT THE DEMS WITH Some ideas for knocking that pesky Scott Brown out of the Massachusetts race.
UPDATE: A Coakley Flickr Fail. Yeah, Bill Clinton doesn’t look real convincing here. Who chooses these?
Of course, this one is only marginally more flattering. And this one is no prize. . . .
GETTING DRUNK AS SIGNALLING BEHAVIOR. I knew some old-school politicians in Nashville who didn’t trust someone they hadn’t seen drunk. This makes some sense: “It is argued that drug consumption, most commonly alcohol drinking, can be a technology to give up some control over one’s actions and words. It can be employed by trustworthy players to reveal their type.”
DISCONNECT: Peggy Noonan on Obama: “He is not supple, able to hear reservations and see opposition and change tack. He has a grim determination to bull this thing through. He negotiates each day with Congress, not with the people. But the people hate Congress! Has he not noticed?” (Thanks to reader James Rehkopf for the tip).
Plus this: “There’s something tired in all this disconnect, something old-fashioned, something sclerotic and 1970’s about it.” Welcome back, Carter! Where’s my leisure suit . . . ?
LANE KIFFIN, pre-speech press drama. (Via Michael Silence).
THE AMIRAULT PROSECUTION: Another Coakley debacle. When Obama’s stumping for her on Sunday, someone should ask him about it . . . .
HEZBOLLAH: Hacked In Iran.
MAYAN CALENDAR MYSTERY explained.
WILDERNESS SURVIVAL, iPhone style.
WEATHER GADGETS for the long winter ahead.
OBAMA TO CAMPAIGN FOR COAKLEY on Sunday.
TOBY BUCKELL: That (not so much) crumbling core of Western Europe’s military might. Their overall resources are significant, but made less so by their political and logistical weakness.
ADVICE TO PERFUME-MAKERS: Men like the smell of ovulating women.
BLOOMBERG TO OBAMA: Hey, thanks for turning us into Detroit.
IN THE MAIL: From Hunter Lewis, Where Keynes Went Wrong: And Why World Governments Keep Creating Inflation, Bubbles, and Busts.
ANDREW KLAVAN: Don’t Panic: Homeland Security is In Charge!
WILL COLLIER: Coming Soon: Substituting Government Annuities for Your 401(k)? Yeah, like I’d trust those clowns with any more of my money . . . .
WOW: Massachusetts shocker: Brown Up 15% in Pajamas Media/CrossTarget Poll. “A new poll taken Thursday evening for Pajamas Media by CrossTarget – an Alexandria VA survey research firm – shows Scott Brown, a Republican, leading Martha Coakley, a Democrat, by 15.4% in Tuesday’s special election for the open Massachusetts US Senate seat. The poll of 946 likely voters was conducted by telephone using interactive voice technology (IVR) and has a margin of error of +/- 3.19%.”
CLIMATEGATE: Who Are the Environment Correspondents?