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2006

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December 2006

  1. Convergence: HDTV LCDs and Computer LCDs
  2. Gulf War II: The critic's view summarized
  3. The strange economics of PC Games: why are so many junk?
  4. Free Will RIP - The Economist on preemptive punishment
  5. Levitating globes, calculators and $18 digital cameras
  6. Die smarter? Longevity genes, Alzheimer's and gambling with Faust
  7. Keeping up with the metagenome
  8. Fertility and wealth: a paradox resolved?
  9. Racism is alive and public in Virginia's Republican representative
  10. UK robotics report: why you should really read science fiction
  11. MS and sunlight
  12. Laws that are universally disobeyed
  13. AOL and Yahoo: email down the tubes
  14. Google is NOT slowing down
  15. Mankiw plays tricks, but is saved by a Dave Barry column
  16. Car rental: enter gold number, price jumps $200
  17. Against Stupidity: Citibank Visa security
  18. Avian Influenza: A guide for the interested layperson
  19. A plea for Google: meta tags for dates
  20. Retail organs: not a slippery slope
  21. Common Good Books: A place to visit in Saint Paul
  22. Anti-war demonstrations: why we don't have them
  23. Panoramio and Google Earth
  24. Why college tuition continues to increase: Mankiw
  25. Apple's feet of clay: OS X Simple Finder
  26. iTunes sales and the status of DRMd music: next steps
  27. Realm of wonders: Ocean census VI
  28. Minnesota: what the heck are these people doing here?
  29. Thoughtcrime
  30. Speeders will be strip searched ... reputation management II
  31. Hacking your reputation: the wars begin
  32. American terrorism: Cuba and the Bush connection
  33. Humanity: we just can't decide what to do about them
  34. Phillip Carter on the Iraq study group recommendations: mediocre and disappointing
  35. The Lundehund and the genomic plasticity of canines
  36. Hail to the volunteer firefighters of Antioch, Illinois
  37. Wisconsin: 10. Minnesota: 1. State health rankings
  38. Funny. Cruel. Apple and the Zune.
  39. MySpace debacle: virtual weapon or virtual parasite?
  40. Neandertal: not gently into the night
  41. Oppenheimer and the falling cost of havoc
  42. Life with Microsoft OneCare - why Vista is doomed
  43. The quiet demise of the CD

November 2006

  1. Stay the course, the iron fist, and game theory
  2. Friedman deflated
  3. How long can you live in a vacuum?
  4. iPod. Lame. iPhone. Laughable.
  5. Spindle neurons: 30 million years in Cetaceans, 15 in primates
  6. Lead poisoning from Christmas Lights: California, China, and the GOP
  7. Polonium and the bombing that launched the second Chechen war
  8. Vista in trouble. Already.
  9. Why would Putin poison by Polonium?
  10. AI: the dialog edges towards the mainstream
  11. Covering the retreat: GOP Senator Chuck Hagel
  12. Outsourcing mainstream media jobs
  13. Children's software: a dismal market in Windows, dead for the MacTel
  14. Populism and electronic guidance of electoral choices
  15. Playing dirty: the GOP's election
  16. The Needham question, 9/11 and the next fifty years
  17. New Scientist: The 50 year prediction
  18. Healthcare Reform: The Faughnan One Slide Presentation
  19. The meaning of Apple - will it always stand alone?
  20. Suzhou, China - Home of my MacBook
  21. Voting: just do what Minnesota does
  22. The gravest threat we know of ...
  23. Neandertal is us: the meaning of species
  24. When the cliche is real: falling on the grenade
  25. The uncelebration: blinking in the light
  26. Conde Nast: An unusual spammer
  27. Thank you, Howard Dean
  28. Election 2006: how pathetic are American newspapers?
  29. Are we neandertal?
  30. Can it be?
  31. Udell recommends: Seminars on Longterm Thinking
  32. Something good: the Ramsey County Precinct Finder
  33. Amazon: ominous problems
  34. Yellow Dog III: The Economist says "throw the bums out"
  35. Yellow Dog II: The NYT has no GOP endorsements
  36. The Economist 1986-2006. RIP.
  37. LiON batteries: don't leave them fully charged
  38. TBL on why blogs are wonderful and the net is NOT all junk and danger
  39. The Yellow Dog barks: it wouldn't matter if they ran Mother Teresa
  40. The roots of the anti-gay marriage movement
  41. Tangram: TIA by any other name
  42. Aug 2008: Resveratrol increases cancer risk?

October 2006

  1. Larry Summers calls for smart populism
  2. GCH1 and chronic pain
  3. Why does evolution allow gay and lesbian humans?
  4. Curing data libels by poisoning the well
  5. Berners-Lee on the future of HTML
  6. Spolsky's guide to interviewing and hiring - version 3
  7. Family Medicine Notes and Pycnogenol: Is Jacob testing me?
  8. The Retreat in detail: An emerging plan
  9. Cheney: a breath of foul stench
  10. An excellent Mankiw discussion on Gas taxes and other externality taxes
  11. What we've learned from torture
  12. Research for Alaskan FP residents: Vitamin C and hand infections in Fishermen
  13. Journalists matter: Gina Kolata on CT scans and lung cancer screening
  14. The future of the manager
  15. Google's Goals: Skynet 1.0
  16. The genome of the bee: like and unlike the human
  17. Recommended: Hawks essay on human evolution
  18. KIBRA and the feeble memories of euros
  19. iPods and hearing loss: A misleading report
  20. How to referee a paper
  21. Fallacies: I'll have more time in a few months
  22. Fallacies: 42 errors in reasoning
  23. Virtualization and DRM are mortal enemies: Vista Licensing
  24. Iraq is not Vietnam. It's much worse.
  25. The startup library: Graham, Spolsky and more
  26. Assertive atheism: a 21st century cult
  27. Zimmer on complexity: and evolution - National Geographic
  28. How closely does Vista track OS X?
  29. Business method patents will make heroes of hackers
  30. Our senator, Norm "Coal" Coleman: serving his future employers
  31. Apple and Dell: Profit vs. Share
  32. David Brin on The Manchurian President
  33. Air Strikes in Iraq: 75,000 dead
  34. Twelve years in the desert - the GOP after 1994
  35. CNET trashes IE 7
  36. The corpse of habeus
  37. Not the best galaxy to be visiting ...
  38. Phillip Carter on Iraq: concrete proposals
  39. Don't do rebates
  40. Winona and why I ended our Britannica subscription
  41. Buddha preserve us - Sunni vs. Shiite
  42. The better science museum: Mall of America's Dinosaur Walk
  43. Lessons from the iPod: Talent deep and wide
  44. DeLong: Why didn't Mexicans get more from NAFTA?
  45. Twin Cities Grand Rounds: The Missing Maps
  46. DeLong, Mankiw and the Problem of the Weak
  47. Fear and totalitarianism
  48. Google Docs: sort of allows blog posting
  49. Chaos at Microsoft: the story of Windows Live Toolbar, Onfolio and Writer
  50. Iraqi death rates 60% of American civil war casualties
  51. Heroes don't play for fame and fortune
  52. Carter on Korea: Eat dirt
  53. Folders, Shortcuts, Aliases, Tags, Taxonomy and Ontology: Google Docs and Spreadsheets
  54. Yahoo to test kindess of our galactic neighborhood
  55. Welcome to the new, furry, persons
  56. NYT Top 25 on the day Korea tested its bomb
  57. How can we kill faxing?
  58. Four new Dyer essays
  59. The twenty-five cent solution: How Google News can save journalism
  60. The No-Fly List: reason enough to dispense with the GOP
  61. The end of the American civil war: nobody left to die
  62. Children need extra hour in the day: BMJ article
  63. Billions of planets and the prevalence of disease: Fermi looms
  64. Will the mobile phone dam burst in the US
  65. The limits of case-control studies: breast feeding and intelligence
  66. Physics speaks up: The trouble with Smolin
  67. The cursed gender: Take II
  68. Explaining the RNA Interference Nobel: Zimmer scores
  69. Deconstructing human programming: The amygdala and the rostral angular cingulate cortext
  70. On the bright side
  71. New world: Lua, Brazil and Adobe Lightroom
  72. Pigou: where the rational left meets the rational less-left
  73. Neil Armstrong vindicated
  74. The complexity of causes: Pompey and the Fall of Rome
  75. Khmer America: The fellowship of the waterboard

September 2006

  1. How hot will it get? Hotter than ever.
  2. Cut and run? Ok, maybe limp.
  3. Paul Graham: a big thinker in the world of software development
  4. Avandia (rosiglitazone) for Rat Alzheimer's Prophylaxis?!
  5. The Hall of Shame: 6 Democrats join
  6. What DeLong reads
  7. Guardians of the Enlightenment: Join SEFORA, promote the rationalist bill of rights
  8. We knew what was happening. The Fall of America, part VII.
  9. FolioViews and ICD-9: a billion dollar tale never told
  10. Answering the stupid question: what would YOU do in Iraq
  11. The Fall of Microsoft?
  12. Brer Clinton: the rage returns
  13. Grief
  14. System failure: No Contact orders in Minnesota
  15. Not your father's immunology - and odd implications thereof
  16. Why do humans lose their childhood memories?
  17. Protecte expensive checked gear, fly with a gun
  18. Safari must die.
  19. Bombing to the stone age - why now?
  20. Brad DeLong read my blog!
  21. In my previous universe, Bush/Rove used more than nukes to sell their invasion
  22. Google Spreadsheets: the next Gmail?
  23. Videochat family reunions: Cringely on Apple's strategy
  24. Immigration and African American incarceration
  25. Sleep and brain development - in flies
  26. DeLong explains why China is paying for our toys and homes
  27. Ray Charles: It was a good ... What the?!
  28. Special Harvard admissions for the wealthy: why I approve
  29. Spam: blacklists are back, and the war may be turning
  30. Memo: no more phones for Joel
  31. One Republican in ten accepts evolution
  32. Howel-Evans syndrome on Wikipedia
  33. Your universe on drugs
  34. Gordon's Notes: a graph
  35. Generals won't join Rumsfeld's staff?
  36. Philip Morris, Exxon and the Climate Change Deniers
  37. Guilty of dishonor of the first degree: America
  38. DRM means the vendor must own the hardware: lessons from iTunes and phones
  39. Google solicits search feedback: working with an algorithmic mind
  40. Why antibiotics make some GI infections more dangerous
  41. Be evil: Gmail, spam, data lock and a digital identity bill of rights
  42. Will winner take all work?
  43. A Defining Moment for America - washingtonpost.com
  44. Cringely on Apple's media play: not based on advertising
  45. Bears and Humans: intersection of problem solving capabilities
  46. Whatever happened to Amazon's lousy service?
  47. Blumenthal's indictment of Bush - the worst ever (Salon)
  48. Garrison Keillor on homeland security
  49. Tidbits notices: iTunes and families don't go together
  50. How bad is the new GOP? Old GOP stalwarts yearn for defeat
  51. Using Google co-op for health information.
  52. The magic of the blog: critique a product, the CEO responds
  53. The insanity of using SSN as a password
  54. The Ten Greatest Privacy Disasters
  55. Anthrax: remember that?
  56. Ramsey County Elections: Primary Tuesday 7am-8pm
  57. Refining the Drake equation: earth like planets more common?
  58. TouchGraph AmazonBrowser
  59. Tom Tomorrow - 10/22/2001
  60. The joy of blogs: DeLong vs Mankiw
  61. Aging or Cancer: pick your poison
  62. The extinction of the northern animals
  63. On Mars: hysterical success
  64. Global climate change: it's time to think radical
  65. General weirdness on the net: ultrasound, autism and satire
  66. Mental illness, Zubaydah and the Republican right
  67. Greylisting: slouching towards weighted reputations of sending services
  68. HyperScope: Does innovation live?
  69. Attacking Inequality: Redistributing wealth
  70. Windows Live OneCare: Firefox? What's that?
  71. Dogs and non-euros
  72. Vinge and Kurzweil on the Singularity
  73. The crash of Comair 5191: fatigue and economic pressures
  74. In Our Time: 18th Century Politeness and Reproductive Fitness

August 2006

  1. What is Senator Ted Stevens hiding?
  2. Lifespan is random
  3. Warren Jeffs, Orrin Hatch, Pedophilia and Fundamentalism: An 50 year old evil is confronted
  4. Only Christians may govern
  5. What ails NH? Live by the rules, then die.
  6. The cursed gender
  7. Global Warming: We're scr***d.
  8. Dell's debacle gets interesting
  9. Sky bombers: think bench
  10. The FBI's system malfunction: It's a dead canary
  11. The end of the family motel - and the family road trip ...
  12. Why Flipper reminds you of Lassie
  13. HAR1: The Uplift gene?
  14. CastingWords: Distributed transcription using Amazon's Amazing Turk services
  15. Why don't they appreciate all we've done for them?
  16. Atheists, Jews, Professionals, Internationalists, Nihilists and Cosmopolitans: Michael Barone channels F. Chernov
  17. Google will date and file your images shortly ...
  18. Don't let your children grow up to be atheletes
  19. Schneier speaks: The limited value of airplane security measures
  20. Fortune cookie quote
  21. Infectious obesity: fattening the calf
  22. This is bad. Using inmates in drug trials.
  23. Another reader suspects the Economist might be in decline
  24. MySpace: So what's there?
  25. Cataclysmic change: Faughnan.com dog picture changes
  26. Why do (some) humans hate democracy?
  27. Ten cosmologies and Theory 10
  28. Minneapolis is a civilized town
  29. Never apologize
  30. Bics and bump keys: innovation diffusion
  31. Leiberman lost on the merits
  32. Talent, terrorism and the shoulders of giants
  33. Quicken: I do loathe thee
  34. 8/09: How talented is this group?
  35. Cancers can become parasitic life forms
  36. Microsoft in crisis: it's more than Vista
  37. Ta Mok: An obituary
  38. Paradigm: banned by Nature
  39. Did Colonel Petrov save our world?
  40. Could ultrasound predispose vulnerable fetuses to neuronal migration disorders?
  41. The day the software died - my worm and the end of the second golden age of the PC
  42. Obesity, nutrition facts and corrupted government
  43. Old skate parts, Google, and the walk to school
  44. Guiding executives with mutual deception - Dilbert scores
  45. Exxon pays for fake Gore spoof
  46. I nominate Molly Ivins to the Order of the Shrill
  47. Apocalypse August: I miss so much by not watching TV
  48. Is there no middle ground in America?
  49. Accelerando, Stross, Google, Amazon, Copyright and DRM: a deleted review and a scary collision ...
  50. Social networks and the expected implications of exponential growth
  51. Kansas returns to Reason
  52. The GOP votes to ban the Internet (from Libraries)
  53. Why we don't remember the future, and other consequences of the 2nd law
  54. Pandora: music radio and recommendations
  55. Airport security 1995 - an insider's story

July 2006

  1. Spolsky on pricing theory
  2. An Interview with Charles (Bell Curve) Murray
  3. Stress, disease and early aging
  4. Geeks don't use Travelers Insurance
  5. Dyer has about 10 new articles online
  6. The Ultra Portable Mobile Computer is doomed
  7. Black skin, SPF, and when a feature becomes a bug
  8. Hezbollah, collective punishment, and the falling cost of havoc
  9. Landis: the odd thing about the test results
  10. Shrillblog: The History of the Shrill
  11. The most important MS Office preferences
  12. DeLong's top 20
  13. Hijacked by the right, a scientist disembarks
  14. Partitioning Iraq: 2003, 2006 and Leo Strauss
  15. Why all the Flash based documentation? It's about languages ...
  16. The real estate bust and the effect of mortgage statements on consumer spending
  17. Interoperability, standards, and the evolution of the codon
  18. ID - nucleosomes and DNA control
  19. Fritos flavor twists: exhibit A in the American Obesity epidemic
  20. Domesticating rats, domesticating humans
  21. Using the futures market to predict the efficacy of clinical claims to cure Alzheimer's
  22. Ten decluttering tips
  23. Smoking is good for the earth, bicycling is bad
  24. Landis on the Tour: The greatest victory in the history of sport?
  25. The Cult of Reason and Rand
  26. Do plaque causing bacteria secrete a local anesthetic?
  27. Kantian Nihilism and Caligulan Propriety
  28. Kauzlarich campaigns for assertive atheism
  29. Why can't scientists come to agreement about global warming?
  30. Cringely 1997 - WinTrust, IE and the death of Netscape
  31. Israel and Lebanon: why I can't condemn Bush (for once)
  32. Tom sees Tomorrow: a political cartoon
  33. The astounding speed of human genetic transformation: The Germanization of Britain
  34. Does Alzheimer's cause diabetes?
  35. Godchecker: why I love the web
  36. The risks of photographing your children
  37. Brad DeLong and the crisis of modern journalism
  38. The 9th century civil war in Baghdad
  39. Marine Philip Carter on the disaster of reducing the standards for soldiers
  40. Richard Neill: The case against pay for performance
  41. Average age for mobile phone in Britain
  42. Mommy, what's smoking?
  43. DeLong, Mankiw, Krugman and why Paul should leave the NYT
  44. Why the second front?
  45. Fountain of reason or den of chaos? The best news is ...
  46. The universe as an engine
  47. The Yahoo death spiral: firefox incompatible
  48. Mac Attack the Minneapolis Star Tribune!
  49. The limits of statistical methods: health, wealth and smoking
  50. Income growth in 2004 and exponential gaps
  51. Democrat fund raising: incompetence or dirty tricks?
  52. Memories of a lost brother - July 12, 2002
  53. Contextual Google Ad above my Gmail spam list
  54. Physics in crisis: the non-zero vacuum energy
  55. Apple and Blackberry: be still my heart
  56. An excellent article on sociopaths and the military
  57. CallerID scams: the perils of flawed trust mechanisms
  58. All the vulnerable people: eFraud, aging and special needs
  59. Exploding LiOn batteries and air travel
  60. The Empire strikes back - An Apple employee on the dangers of tech blogs
  61. Spyware companies: Yahoo, Delta, Cingular
  62. Charles Stross and the Fermi Paradox
  63. Follow Me Here on Bush fatigue
  64. Disbanding the CIA's bin Laden group: the bright side
  65. Google's weakness: devotion to the algorithm
  66. New old trends in software evolution
  67. Nature: the top 50 science blogs
  68. Managing North Korea: the special needs approach
  69. The history of Google Base
  70. Treating injured brains with ECT?
  71. Healing injured brains: implications for autism?
  72. Porn spam, click through, and the haunting laughter of Leo Strauss
  73. One big happy family: the universal ancestor
  74. Revenge of the consumer: Think Amazon.com
  75. Drunk driving less disruptive than thought ...
  76. Arms race in the market: Dynamic vs. predictive pricing
  77. Barack Obama is a fool
  78. Gaming Amazon reviews: 17/17 found this helpful

June 2006

  1. Take the Net: Own the last mile
  2. Google's strategy: a summary
  3. Heroes in Georgia: Ms. New and Mr. Carter
  4. Would Gates have preferred Jobs? Yes, claims the Economist
  5. Google Checkout arrives - and it's Microsoft Wallet
  6. RJR and the Elegance of Pure Evil
  7. Political theory and the original position
  8. Gwynne Dyer: at least four June articles online
  9. Self sustaining entities: corporations and the Spanish Inquisition
  10. The WSJ, the American Right, and the Protestant view of sinful poverty
  11. New York Times for free? Use the library
  12. The brilliant Hilter/Coulter quiz
  13. Stross on imagining 2016
  14. Noblesse Oblige and the Problem of the Weak: Buffett and Gates
  15. Cosmologic roundup: meaning and nothingness
  16. The BBC's new blog: something different?
  17. The Bush timetable for leaving Iraq
  18. Greenland's day after tomorrow
  19. Bank record spying: why I didn't read about it.
  20. DeLong does cosmology: The anthropic principle
  21. Doing evil with Google stuff
  22. bin Laden's ratings collapse
  23. The aesthetics of execution
  24. Gender gap in academic performance and the age of menarche
  25. Homeland security and the Great LA Quake of 2008
  26. The road to hell: General Formica's version
  27. The Ecoomist saves the whales
  28. Cringely's cruel verdict on Gates
  29. The SonicCare Elite, revenge, and the price of consumption
  30. The most useful comment on Gates' retirement
  31. In Our Times: recent favorites
  32. It's not anyone's fault. A social transition.
  33. The selfish benefits of blood donation: 650 calories
  34. Google knows all: Gordon's Notes, anonymity and neural networks
  35. Cirrhosis and coffee: cause or effect?
  36. The Sunday Times (London): exceptional detail on the pursuit of Zarqawi
  37. Glaciers then and now
  38. Points for Bush
  39. Youth only ringtones - fast times in fairmount high
  40. Link aggregation and alumni organizations: avoiding the fraud and diversity problems
  41. Surviving a rock concert: how much NRR?
  42. Robert J Lurtsema: how fleeting is fame
  43. How to REALLY anger customers: Griffin Technologies
  44. Haditha: the defense
  45. Iran and the murder of the Iraqi Shiites
  46. Zarqawi and the serendipity of fame
  47. WGA: Windows Global Acquisition
  48. Fulminating about Ann Coulter
  49. Japanese American Inernment
  50. Haditha: details on how Kilo Company cracked
  51. Betty McCollum voted against the toxic HR 5252 bill
  52. Back to Iraq 3.0: Zarqawi Analysis
  53. Medical cyanoacrylate use: why is the best summary on Dan's Data?
  54. Lost artifacts: Hyphenation and typing
  55. Copyright madness: don't take photos that are TOO good.
  56. The transhumanists - a portrait
  57. People not like you and I ...
  58. Relational and feature memory
  59. Where do you hide a 300 mile crater?
  60. Da Vinci Code and the Catholic Digest: Oddly revealing
  61. Was the 2004 Election Stolen?
  62. Hyper-G: the road not taken
  63. Charles Stross on the future of the identity card
  64. DeLong on how to be a treasury secretary

May 2006

  1. New Orleans will not be entirely rebuilt
  2. Molly Ivins: Enron's President Bush
  3. A diversity of minds: are humans less alike than we imagine?
  4. War crimes at Hadithah: not unique, inevitable
  5. The Deborah Howell affair: can bloggers improve a lazy (or corrupt) journalist?
  6. Establishing identity: Bloomberg's DNA database
  7. All alpha all the time - convicting the CEO
  8. Taking the brains out of our prey
  9. Using pain to prevent secular humanism
  10. The Harvard Business Review and Home Depot
  11. The marines learn the lessons of Abu Ghraib
  12. Modern HIV is 75 years old
  13. The return of estrogen?
  14. How to dismantle a democracy
  15. Why are we so different from one another?
  16. US nursing gets it between the eyes
  17. An exceptional survivor: Cousin May
  18. A wonderful lesson in evolution and survival: The Dicynodonts
  19. Zolpidem and the nature of consciousness
  20. The evolution of Christianity: a feature of the Da Vinci code
  21. Minnesota - point!
  22. The price of criticism: Science and the Bushies
  23. Newton's editor? Emilie du Châtelet.
  24. How many individual dinosaurs were there?
  25. Real ID: our National ID card
  26. Over 55? You're toast.
  27. Are humans the best problem solvers?
  28. The Universal Library
  29. Managing the theft of your identity
  30. Eugenics - the real thing now.
  31. Hawks skeptical on hominid-chimp miscegenation
  32. Cheney and the Agnew strategy
  33. Exxon is pro-CO2
  34. My Lai, without the heroes
  35. Wicked. Friedman humbled.
  36. Galloway on Rumsfeld
  37. The history of invasion by immigrants
  38. Java on the server, AJAX on the client
  39. Google does so do lock-in. Fool.
  40. The power of Google and Wikipedia
  41. Manipulating memory by photo display - unexpected results
  42. Screening for berry aneurysms -- genomics
  43. Biology of aging: telomeres predict your age
  44. Open source Java and a classic strategic blunder
  45. 100 years: likelihood of human survival
  46. The surveillance society: Us and Them
  47. Gore 2008
  48. Troops at the border? Humor is indicated
  49. Secondary outsourcing
  50. Are cars overbuilt?
  51. Rove to resign?
  52. The Descent of Dog
  53. Total Information Awareness Lives
  54. Christian nationalism and the scent of fascism
  55. Using father's dna to catch the son
  56. Public concern over the NSA: greater than expected
  57. French universities and the revenge of the weak
  58. The viral invention of DNA
  59. Qwest: An unexpected hero
  60. NSA phone monitoring: Call your bookie recently?
  61. Molly Ivins can't resist Hookergate
  62. The Terror: My education has been incomplete
  63. The galaxy gets healthier -- so where are the LGMs?
  64. Natural cancer resistance - in mice and men
  65. Sick Americans: cost and cause
  66. Mother's Day - who's the worst?
  67. An odd digression into mathematics: Physics and the Reimann-Zeta functions
  68. Humane execution
  69. Anonymity achieved - of a sort
  70. Schizophrenia is "hot". Why now?
  71. What are spleens good for?
  72. At what gas price would Americans make changes?
  73. Origami: Microsoft lays another brick egg
  74. The psychopathology of the CEO
  75. Dept of Homeland Security doesn't do background checks
  76. The new Iraq debate: how to retreat
  77. Porter Goss resigns: Hookers, spies and the GOP
  78. Dell has jumped the shark: Spyware pre-installs
  79. Coming to terms with failure: Iraq and the US government
  80. The latest right wing war meme: we need to be more like Stalin
  81. Pten and autism: a mouse study strengthens the connection
  82. The first Arabic Internet and the virtues of selective taxation: The Abassid Caliphs
  83. I was wrong: we are not pathetic
  84. Come on. Try to say this isn't great stuff ...
  85. I laughed ...
  86. Dogs enabled human civilization?
  87. Slate on sewers: poo and more
  88. Tentative progress against glioma
  89. So how did the ultrarich manage to conceal their role in repealing the estate tax?
  90. The hidden inflation of low quality

April 2006

  1. An unwanted gift from Windows Update
  2. We really need to encourage Ann Coulter
  3. Hookers, spies and the GOP
  4. Robert Reich has a blog
  5. Longer life through younger mothers
  6. Building virtual worlds in Google Earth: SketchUp
  7. Google Calendar is hot!
  8. Worse than Buchanan?
  9. Iraq: nobody knows where it will go
  10. Black holes: the heart and lungs of a galaxy
  11. A guide to covert communications
  12. Frothing mad: Colonel Wilkerson
  13. Big science: Regulating the master regulator genes
  14. Missed comments: Gmail eating them!
  15. Revolt against Rumsfeld: It's the torture.
  16. Space Race. Brain Race.
  17. If it's not mini-B, it's no good
  18. The evolutionary biology of reading - and of sign language
  19. Iranian bomb: Krauthamer and the cost of havoc problem.
  20. Minnesota GOP Platform: Protect creationism
  21. Civil liberties protection officer?
  22. Outsourcing the grunt work of a web article
  23. Neuregulin: Monster gene of madness
  24. Windows Vista: a disaster
  25. Fresh organs from China: kill to order
  26. Earth out of balance: Al Gore
  27. Lieutenant General Neubold: On Iraq and Rumsfeld
  28. The anti-heroism of passive resistance to the Holocaust
  29. Quantum biology
  30. America the big: my seating proposal
  31. Return of the Kings
  32. Bush - he can't even cut taxes
  33. NASA launches new SETI project: optical search
  34. Rumsfeld out? It's about nuking Iran
  35. Lifeboat Britain
  36. Gwynne Dyer has 12 new articles up
  37. Narus: an ominous name
  38. Economics of outsourcing
  39. Why we can't outsource social services to churches
  40. Google Calendar: No Safari, no sync?
  41. The Massachusetts miracle: healthcare reform
  42. ABC News has a relatively technical analysis of Iran's nuclear program
  43. Generals hate Rumsfeld. What about Bush?
  44. Offshoring: The Next Industrial Revolution?
  45. Dan Brown is ravished by Crooked Timber
  46. Great DeLong discussion on economic policy
  47. Zing
  48. Can dogs get gluten-sensitive enteropathy?
  49. I got my settlement check: Microsoft-Minnesota
  50. Microsoft must perish: OLE embedding
  51. Cheap havoc: bio-weapons via eBay
  52. Anthropologist needed: Why Orkut in Brazil but nowhere else?
  53. Drug reps and their whores - the commercialization of medicine
  54. When government goes mad: Cheney
  55. A conspiracy for fantasy: Moussaoui
  56. Saletan takes the prayer study seriously
  57. The 13 most corrupt members of congress
  58. The odd history of recovered artifacts: The Judas gospel
  59. The May 15th deadline for Iraq
  60. OS X 10.4.6 and Missing Sync: wait a bit
  61. The law of large numbers: the iPod face on the map
  62. Minnesota, home of the massive neutrino
  63. Iowa City: invisible to the spy eyes
  64. HIV: if you can't beat them ...
  65. Niven scores: The organ trade grows
  66. Healthcare IT Vendor to Offer Sex in HIMSS Booths
  67. Scanning developing brains: the excitement to come
  68. Slashdot: OMG Ponies!
  69. Will ethics boards allow further experiments with prayer?
  70. Prayer by strangers harmful to inpatients

March 2006

  1. The Sago survivor is a mutant
  2. Yahoo! yellow pages: the problem with being mostly right
  3. Immigration: an interesting debate
  4. Indict the dogs
  5. CEO Corruption: will there be unexpected consequences
  6. Prime numbers, Zeta functions, and quantum mechanics
  7. Do not use IE until latest bug is fixed
  8. The myth of the skilled worker shortage
  9. The last good toaster?
  10. The law of large numbers: identical fake email addresses
  11. The Economist. Adieu.
  12. Danger: Addictive temptations from the BBC
  13. Ask a stupid question ...
  14. Graphene, quasiparticles, anyons and quantum braids
  15. Dana Reeve: never smoked, died of lung cancer
  16. Life seem absurd? Maybe it is.
  17. Two occupations: Iraq and the Falklands
  18. William Pfaff
  19. Canadians are made for suffering: Rogers wireless
  20. Rogue Unit, Rogue Nation
  21. The rational right betrayed: Bush wasn't in on the con
  22. The worldmind in action: finding impact craters
  23. My Homeland security interview: via MoneyGram
  24. Bad Google, bad: Blogger misbehaving
  25. More Google/Blogger incompetence
  26. Google has locked my tech blog!
  27. The meaning of the decline of America
  28. Amazon backup service: That was quick
  29. Entitled opinions: Another podcast for the living mind
  30. Where are my keys?
  31. Nasal decongestant addiction: I don't buy it
  32. Latest GOP Bill would send me to prison for 15 years ...
  33. Same genes, different outcome - why?
  34. Gwynn Dyer: Interpreting America to Iran
  35. Minnesota imports Indiana's climate
  36. A theory disproved: Saddam knew he had no WMDs
  37. Catherine the Great: A BBC audio podcast
  38. Origami really IS bad. Why?
  39. A simple explanation of the significance of the current account deficit
  40. William of Nassau, Prince of Orange, called the Silent
  41. The people understand the need for a strong leader
  42. The falling cost of havoc - some numbers
  43. American Gulag
  44. A ranting madman takes on the Tungsten E2
  45. Brazil 2.0: A mandatory movie review
  46. The Economist provides a primer on the Shia and Sunni sects of Islam
  47. Knowledge workers and executive compensation: a surprise ahead?
  48. Bird flu: much harder to stop than thought
  49. Propaganda works: the belief that Saddam was behind 9/11
  50. Why has Iran been so slow to build its nuclear bombs?
  51. The PDA is dead. Long live the PDA.
  52. Horror in France
  53. Doonesbury is a guardian of the enlightenment
  54. Bush: sociopath, dull, .... or demented?
  55. What ciphers will be broken 30 years from now?
  56. Obsidian Wings on Scientology
  57. Now don't panic ...
  58. Katrina: the disappeared
  59. Where has the money gone? To the very American oligarchy.

February 2006

  1. Psychoanalysis as alternative medicine: Tommyrot in the NYT OpEd page
  2. The tragicomic security failures of the financial services industry: Acxiom's story
  3. Discarding receipts: IRS accepts scanned images
  4. The National Parks: Reason 143 to despise Bush
  5. Hacking the universe: counterfactual computing
  6. Drug testing in sports: time to give up?
  7. Defining a disease: how often are atypical presentations due to multiple agents?
  8. What's really going on with the "Port" story?
  9. Google to PayPal: your days are numbered
  10. Another update on America 1984
  11. Air America: On Groundhog Day
  12. Newsweek shreds Bush, but is he incompetent or delusional?
  13. Breakthrough in Crohn's disease?
  14. Ugly people are the under class
  15. Michael Brown: more than a cartoon
  16. Monbiot on a world without privacy
  17. The Blog of Death: R. Hunter Simpson
  18. Five stars worth knowing about
  19. IP addresses to run out in 2005 ... oops
  20. Miscommunication made easy: email
  21. Better decisions without the prefrontal cortex
  22. Alzheimer's: there's not much you can do about it
  23. No XP booting on MacTel boxes
  24. iPod review
  25. Costly hotels and awful clock radios
  26. Naughty but nice - Philip Morris' Arise
  27. Cheney hunts domesticated birds
  28. No decency: Guantanamo episode XIV
  29. Nike.com: worst web site in the history of the universe
  30. Kinsley on the the Islamic rage cartoons
  31. In defense of religion - an atheist speaks
  32. From skijor to dog scooter - adapting to global climate change
  33. A brief education in modern genetics
  34. Power corrupts: the tyranny of the lowly immigration officer
  35. Countries can't downsize
  36. Google vs. PayPal: world's shortest fight
  37. NSA traffic analysis: the seduction of data and the creation of conspiracy
  38. Bush's apparatchik in NASA: obnoxious youth
  39. How amantadine became useless
  40. The ACLU's estimate of NSA activity
  41. Bush on cutting imports: really, it was a joke
  42. How often will sentience evolve on earth? From anthropology to the Fermi Pardox - via the Drake Equation
  43. The passing of the Telegram
  44. The secret to better crime results: don't record the data
  45. Ampulex and the cockroach slave: another Zimmer zinger
  46. Google's feet of clay: Gmail and spam
  47. The best commentary on the state of the union address

January 2006

  1. The New York Times finds a spine?
  2. Idiot America
  3. A creek in the congo: Future Shock
  4. DeLong on Franco
  5. Newsweek has the scoop on the NSA
  6. Why would a virus fatten an animal?
  7. Newsweek: the price of questioning Dick Cheney
  8. The Google Ghost in my Machine - a disconcerting moment
  9. Why the Farangs smell
  10. Fox news: in the pay of Philip Morris
  11. Medicare Part D, Chimps and Bonobos
  12. Can primates trust strangers?
  13. Scary moment in the digital life: a corrupted image
  14. The NSA affair: it's about how they selected their intercepts
  15. Challenger: 20 years
  16. The Long War and the Quadrennial Defense Review: 20 years of the imperial president?
  17. Building a business without VCs
  18. Adopting a mutt - new age
  19. Defining the Drake equation: how common are rocky planets?
  20. A retrospective look: the war on terror
  21. Smile for the satellite: Google Maps update
  22. A use for blacklists: Political spam
  23. Cervical ribs and cancer risk
  24. The power of the contest: Booting XP on a MacTel
  25. Google news now learns what you like
  26. Travelers tales: a list of favored cities and times
  27. iTunes users are Democrats?
  28. Parasite and master
  29. The transformation of the American economy
  30. Republican strategy: energize the wackos
  31. Keeping the Elderly on the Road, but Out From Behind the Wheel - New York Times
  32. How to write a business plan
  33. Search engines for Patriots
  34. Cringely surveys the Bush surveilance program
  35. The historical demographics of Iraq: Why don't we know them?
  36. The Gore speech
  37. The new doctor shortage - Michigan
  38. The publicly traded politician - and other reform proposals
  39. A critical military analysis of the war on terrorism
  40. The drug discount debacle -- one illustrative story
  41. Getting an ovation for your speech
  42. Exercise and Alzheimer's: How to fix the demented media
  43. Good-bye cross country skiing
  44. iPod and iTunes: an unexpected effect
  45. Iran's program: what's so complicated?
  46. Why the democrats should filibuster Alito
  47. Hard core libertarian praising Ted Kennedy?
  48. Douglass' judgment upon Lincoln
  49. Listen to Stanford lectures on iTunes
  50. Medlogs is looking good on Bloglines
  51. You can't win - the trap of the home office depreciation
  52. Alito and Roe vs. Wade
  53. Bated or baited breath?
  54. Is it ethical to download music I own?
  55. Comments on Capitalism: Gilded Age III
  56. Gilded Age II
  57. The Gilded Age
  58. Breeding the long-lived dog: Step One
  59. On taking companies public
  60. Working class wages in Britain - 1300 to 1840
  61. Sick child with very painful legs - think meningitis
  62. Orcinus channels a right wing lust for lynching
  63. Google Earth is still staggering
  64. Mirror neurons and their alternative uses
  65. Dean is back: PZ Myers tells the tale
  66. DeLay: using foster children to launder bribes
  67. Completely not secret numbers
  68. Rebates -- and why I won't buy from Brother
  69. How I finally found a home for my maps
  70. The purgatory of the no fly list
  71. The Fermi Paradox: From the Edge question of the year
  72. Check your dog food - or kill your dog
  73. Super Soaker wax removal
  74. The meaning of the $5 AM/FM clock radio
  75. Connect the dots: Harpers on China, The Economist on GE
  76. Warren Buffet on the US trade deficit
  77. The spirit wanes -- the Onion
  78. bin Laden is dead (I think)
  79. It pays to be a parasite: The cat
  80. The alternative to an American police state: The transparent society
  81. The consequences of NSA intercepts
  82. Cats did get around
  83. The case for a police state in America
  84. Skijoring goes mainstream
  85. Changes to comments
  86. Poindexter's dreaded TIA was a mouse compared to Bush's NSA
  87. bosons go with forces, fermions with stuff
  88. Lost Luggage Lessons
  89. Lessons in business:
  90. Humans aren't good at oversight
  91. Genetic data: Are there any so naive as to think laws will matter?
  92. A million dollar bribe for Abramoff and DeLay

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