2007
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2007 904
December 2007
- The NYT may be ready to fight
- An amusing summary of the Bush years: records lost in the Executive Building fire
- The great product problem: consumers
- Bush didn't want to know the location of the CIA's torture facilities
- The unclear implications of an iPhone contract
- Eckels on managing software projects
- Spolsky tips on travel, gear, phones and so on
- Music industry sows the wind
- Security theater: airport liquid dumps
- Sudden death in frontotemporal dementia - a clue to sudden infant death syndrome?
- Changing world: the Robosoft example
- A real problem with CO2 controls
- Krugman on globalization: how to manage the losers
- Unsolved murders: 1982 Tylenol and 2001 Anthrax
- Science fiction: the meme of universal cooperation
- Happy Solstice: A quiet revolution in human knowledge
- Obama attacks: haven't even begun
- Age and capacity: the strong shall be weak
- The end time for Amrican television and the evil genius of Rupert Murdoch
- Orphanages and international adoption
- My Google profile -- another brick in the wall
- RealClimate has an excellent summary of the "it's not the CO2, it's the sun" climate change group
- Daring Fireball demonstrates why journalists are going to get smarter
- The scale of the housing bubble: good news for first-time home buyers
- The Economist's Science and Technology feed
- eBay on the ropes - at long last?
- Geeks at middle-age - we too shall pass
- Microsoft's exciting new OS update
- Why the US can't separate benefits from employment
- Ron Paul explained: pseudo-libertarian populism and geek subculture
- The Chinese zombie computer industry
- Human evolution: a pillar falls
- A problem with Megan's Law: the price of false inclusion
- 1967 was a long time ago
- The story of leaded gasoline
- Steal a movie for all the scared children
- Slouching towards Skynet
- Burn the Kindle
- Resisting the temptation of web services
- CIA Torture tapes destroyed
- Indentured servitude in the modern world -- the noncompete
- The only kind of change management that works
- Freedom requires religion
- The thirty five year slowdown
- Software comments: quality and metaphor
- Google Street View in Saint Paul, Minnesota?
- Pay phones join tape reels and broadcast TV
- Gmail feature request: the ability to edit subject lines
- Google Docs has no clothes
- Google Sites to Launch Next Year
- Preventing anorexia: are these traits predictive?
- Children of the roaring 20s
- SETI: find one of nine galactic civilizations
November 2007
- McCain on torture: the least bad Republican
- The spectrum wars: Chapter One
- In Our Time: Symmetry, Moonshine, String Theory and E8
- The Economist's print edition has a full Feed
- HealthcareITJobs - from Mr HISTalk
- How Venus got its CO2 atmosphere
- Selfishness and its justifications
- China's hundred billion reasons to dislike the US
- Yes, Google does know where I am
- History of the First Peoples - Charles Mann's 1491
- Romney and Mormon theology
- The cinema beneath the Seine
- The American cellular empire has fallen, let the wars begin
- Nanotechnology made real: inner life of a cell
- Housing: oh poop
- The dysfunctional print media
- The real threat to Microsoft and Apple
- Every human base pair mutated
- They really love me. The splogbots love me.
- Tom Friedman joins David Brooks
- The subprime mortgage story: a problem of the weak
- Bruce Springsteen. Saying thanks with Magic.
- America 2016: how close are we tracking Fallows predictions?
- Quality crisis: software, hardware, publicly traded companies, food, toys and nations
- The key to successful remote collaboration - from 1970
- The perils of compensation plans: housing market version
- Pet poison follow-up: melamine and cyanuric acid
- Two dimensional string theory
- Ravel on Bolero
- Guess what phone isn't promoted on the A&T site
- The best Trek: Slashdot chooses
- Five by Dyer: two on Oil
- Particle vs. Field: which is truer
- Galois: killer unknown
- Profiling: the astrology of criminology
- Second Life: 2.5 billion lines of code
- How to demo software
- America, the richest third world nation
- Comet Holmes - it's quite simple
- Consumers Union Toy Safety campaign: sign up now
- The hidden insurance problem: they can play the game better than we can
- The best pro-Hillary argument
- Krugman on social security: I think he's wrong
- How bad a recession?
- Kmart's lead jewelry - slow learners
- Epocrates for the iPhone
- Come the clones
- Global warming in Minnesota: no more outdoor ice rinks
- We need a web page of unit conversion disasters
- Halamka's Health Care CIO Blog: essential reading
- Creating good side-effects of evil actions: reCAPTCHA and more
- NYT Most blogged list
- Relativity + QM + symmetry = QED
- How to be Keynesian monetarist supply sider - econ 101
- Small wars journal: A crisis of honor
- WW I: How many survivors are there?
- Yellowstone - the bomb next door
- Pogue touches Windows Mobile. Recoils
- Google's phone number and SSN based persona cloning
- Fraud technologies use persona cloning to attack social networks
- Race and dating preferences
- Dershowitz makes the case
- Employment benefit complexity: we are sheep
- Complexity + Tight Coupling = Catastrophe
- File for the mythical startup - operations
- Major League Baseball leads fight for digital freedom
- Skinnies burn fast, plumpies less demented
- Diabetic non-compliance explained
- Pat Robertson does not believe in God
- LinkedIn goes exponential
- Apple Tablet: what the heck is it good for?
- Emmy Noether and symmetry: we ought to know HER name
- NYT subscriptions fall sharply
- The evanescence of the net
- Living in a dream world - The American right not to know
- The right declares in favor of torture - responding to the ticking clock
- Breastfeeding and IQ: A stunning result
- Shared family calendars, PDAs and Google Android
- Fidelity vs. Vanguard: For want of a form a customer was lost
- Regions of rapidly evolving genes: evidence of genetic control of the rate of adaptation and disorders of evolution
- How to Hyperlink: advice and some hypertexual history
- The scandal that created the army and executive privilege
- Ground zero in Pakistan: Informed Comment blog
- Karen Hughes: another Bush loyalist quits
- Wives for China: yet another crisis
- I like Bob Herbert
- How long is your to do list?
- NYT's new ads: drive me to Adblock Plus
- Williams College: a word of praise
- Perfect commentary on the million terrorist watch list
- Islamofascism; the greatest threat ever
October 2007
- iPhone progress: pretty darned slow
- Image of the week: Fallows in Berlin
- LinkedIn joins Google's open social networking
- Deja Vu: DeLong on Health Care Reform -- and Ira Magaziner
- The coastal housing bubble collapse - in pictures
- Is Google winning the spam wars?
- The aviation "near miss" problem
- Petraeus team plays the propaganda game
- Web 2.0, AJAX and the thin client iPhone: all overrated
- Amazon's eBook program: online and print
- Huckabee and Gail Collins
- The Wellstone memorial and the path not taken
- The nuclear apocalypses that should have happened
- Rat plagues wipe out indigenous rats
- The US does NOT have a problem with science education
- On saving the world - Shtetl-Optimized
- Fragments of history: Manchester air raid shelters in abandoned mine shafts
- Financial market turmoil: The problem is obvious, the fix is hard
- My answer to Jeff Atwood's question: Why Does Software Spoil?
- Sibling Neandertal and the end of the modern human
- The Bush/Cheney regime in a nutshell
- Hibbing and the Hull Rust
- I am 113810027503326386174. And 578762461. At least.
- iPhone Jan 2008 and, at last, the end of Palm
- Fallows says No to Mukasey
- The cult of IQ
- So what was Homo Sapiens DOING for 115,000 years?
- Greens and Grays and IQ
- There are no American professional hockey players
- In Our Time: Opium Wars and the 2008 Olympics, Spinoza's radical determinism and the new feed page
- Romney for torture
- British Telecom's futurist predicts end of the world in about 10 years
- Collateral damage - Microsoft destroys an ISO standards committee
- Miscegenation in America
- What my dishwasher taught me about 21st century life
- The sled dogs and polar bear: not a fake
- Are oil futures nonsensical? What happened to arbitrage?
- The Good Americans and the meaning of silence - Frank Rich
- What if Clinton had been elected to a third term?
- High altitude exertion will damage your brain
- Something nice about Apple - better repair service
- Carter on Cheney ... and Bush
- How bad can a Business Week article be?
- Google's storage model: fixed price, more service
- When Google fails and an expert succeeds
- Do children watch television any more?
- Security outsourcing: The US needs its mercenaries
- Phil Nugent: the mind of GWB
- You can't use a smartphone on an airplane -- even in "airplane mode"
- The future of the POB?
- Thank you Mr. Gore
- Too cheap to bill: storage and electricity
- Captcha death: My DeLong comment fails
- Twenty years of wasted cycles ...
- From Napster to Amazon: A Yahoo! insider's DRM history and projections
- The American right is dying - or not?
- Waterboarding: read the comments
- Generation Q: Outrage is dead. Please help us ...
- Why would computerworld send me spam?
- Data mining and you: giving a damn might be wise
- Your "do not call" registration is expiring!
- Medical Algorithms: a web site devoted to "depression scales" and the like
- Losing the roots: the Dems may have to chance a spine
- Netflix: are broken DVDs a sign of stress?
- Bill Clinton as Hillary's attack dog
- No bad bridge maps: Bridge ratings are now top secret
- We've identified the problem with the US media
- Fair Use defined
- Why does Apple have a better quality reputation than Porsche?
- Star Wars: A weird and dark story
- Microsoft's HealthVault: Only one question worth asking
- Living the lie: OJ Simpson, George Bush and Marion Jones
- Pogue loves the XO, I remember the Commodore 64
- We know what we are: Torture and the end of the American exception
- No President Giuliani
- The GOP candidates: The Legion of Doom
- The CD, not file sharing, is the true target of the music industry
- Schizophrenia and autism: evolutionary disorders?
- Sudden shafts of light: the journalist as honest cop
- When government works - the Twin Cities
- The treadmill powered Harry Potter eBook - my greatest invention
- Condé Nast and Spam: what's the deal here?
- Nokia is the Apple Geek's new best friend
- Dyer on why Bush invaded Iraq - not the oil
- More Dyer essays: 8/20-9/17 2007
- Is schizophrenia the price we pay for an evolving brain?
- A picture to remember - Rangoon
September 2007
- Send a letter to Rush
- Apple guilty of second degree iPhone murder?
- Bicycling and Skating: Urban variations?
- Helmets: good for inline, not so good for bicycling?
- DI - Lake Peigneur
- The evolutionary biology of Giardia - no mitochondria
- Apple is at war with its own uber geeks
- My double rainbow
- Cringely runs the shark over
- BBC IOT - Theories of Everything With Brian Greene
- Amazon MP3 Store: great news for Apple customers
- Error types in software and fort construction
- Broadband speed trickery: couldn't happen here
- The market answer to dementia: Soylent Green
- The human eye vs. a camera: how do they compare?
- UPS delivery record fraud - how to respond
- That Jena business: it's time to stop watching television news
- Today, would Gerald Ford be to the left of Hillary Clinton?
- kottke.org - Gordon's Notes on steroids, more art, less physics
- Do you know where your identities are?
- If we survive, we will be Sweden
- Attitudes change: suicide bombing is unfashionable
- America's Billion Dollar Embassy - in Baghdad
- The cure for the AMT: The Carbon Tax
- The dinosaur you ate yesterday
- Distrusting climate models - it cuts both ways
- Network TV commits sepuku - Fake Steve Jobs gloats
- Ramstad - another bad sign for the GOP
- Squanto and the non-Puritan non-Pilgrim "Fathers"
- Kafka and the twilight of twentieth century aviation
- Krugman's blog
- NYT frees Paul Krugman
- Scroogled - a jaundiced view of Google's future
- Greenspan on the weak: it is right that the parasites die
- Maybe we can't drink the water ...
- Broken hearts at WSJ editorial offices: Greenspan on Bush and Clinton
- Frank Rich: comments on the forgotten war
- Historian wanted: The American Liberty League and 1930s fascism
- Fallows on the Iraq Speeches: Edwards amazing, Giuliani insane
- iPhone vs. Windows Mobile: Reflections on why Windows Mobile has been such a dud
- Canine cognition - at last, respect
- Asymmetric Polygamy: the problem of the leftovers
- Why can't we manage botnets?
- Mind expanding books: a list
- Fossett: is this the same search everyone gets?
- Amazon's Flexible Payments service
- Forgotten things: dial phones, record players, rust
- Cruelty of the young, or how to tell you're a geezer
- Shared music, shared ringtones, iPhone - uh-oh
- Senator Klobuchar and cell phone contracts: America, bow before Minnesota
- Dang, I really thought he was dead
- Virginia moves to eliminate the father
- Are all smartphones bad?
- Blah, blah, quantum entanglement, yawn, hacking reality, zzzzz
- The real reasons airplanes tell us to turn off our iPods ...
- We don't know what life is ... (Zimmer)
- Jobs reads customer emails?!
- Nuclear canary dies: flying the warheads
- iTouch, iPhone: more sad news
- Boingo Wireless adds another iPhone requirement
- The Voyager records - they were almost blank
- NBC plugs the family loophole in Digital Rights Management
- Crummy results on Google searches? Their defenses have failed
- An insider geek comes clean on the chaotic nature of emergent financial instruments
- "Fake Steve": The problem with Web 2.0 software development
- Answering the question and more: "why are so many nerds libertarians"
- The end of the flash?
- UPS crushes another Amazon.com package
- An ocean of poisonous fish
- Inline skating? Wear a helmet.
- Lessons in limitations: One of government, one of the web
- The feeding of dog and primate: NYT Magazine's peek into the maze
- The NYT on Abraham Lincoln. In 1860.
- BBC FAQ on the subprime crash - very readable
- Apophis: mark your calendar for April 2029
- Nixon in China: Gay rights and the GOP
- Obesity, exercise and MN's running of the bull
August 2007
- My MN congressman calls for a federal gas tax increase
- The Ganges and the lost plutonium cores
- Asperger's and the professions
- Exxon's full page ads against conservation in Minnesota papes
- Rove and Philip Morris
- Zelikow and the overthrow of Maliki: How Washington works
- You can't fly with your eyes closed - at all
- Bane of the net: who maintains those pretty web sites?
- Google Maps: sort of display Picasa photos
- Physicist bloggers getting cranky
- A carbon tax PAC: the most effective form of greenery
- Suddenly Vista has no friends
- Easy primary care research project: good for fellowship, residency etc
- Giuliani - time to go away. Please.
- Gwynne Dyer - 9 essays - July through Aug 16 2007
- The Apple iMovie debacle: Pogue smacks 'em
- Pigs teleport
- The history of amphetamines in America
- Levitt on terrorism
- Preventive care - a marginal idea?
- How toy makers can save themselves
- DeLong: China prior to WW I
- Reality, perception, Hume, the red pill - and John Tierney
- INTEL DUMP's insider comments on the Bush-era military
- Update on Peter Hausmann post - family fund
- What Rove left us: a broken government
- Google strikes a mighty blow against DRM
- Google does not understand the web: exhibit A
- Gordon's Tech: Google Earth and Picasa strange loops and the need for four dimensional coordinates in Google's image map layer
- Cheney predicted the entire course of the Iraq war
- Join us. Don't be afraid, there's nothing left for you on Windows ...
- No Google Earth infrastructure layer: thoughts on the community model
- Gordon's Notes: check your feed
- So that's what happened to my Chinese audience
- iPhone: my demands
- Lessons from my garage door remote
- This weekend, a virtual world teeters on the edge
- Dockables: donation ware, clever!
- NTY Business: replaying press releases?
- Pollution has vitamins
- Dying heroically - known for his coffee mugs
- Dear Salon and Dear Volkswagen: this will cost you
- Should we preferentially tax premium gasoline? How evil would that be?
- Rome burns. Bush fiddles.
- Ignatieff: I'm so glad I didn't bother ...
- The Apple iMovie story: An interesting lesson in modern software evolution
- CV is hurting my head again: The anthropic principle and our peculiar relation to the arrow of time ...
- Inattention taxes: overcharging on checkout
- Information (and data) Visualization: The future always arrives late and unexpectedly
- Hedge funds and private equity: a hedge fund manager's perspective
- Why didn't more people die when 35W fell?
- Fake rabies vaccine
- Solving the china import problem; $1 million prize for each recall
- The Center of it All
- 2011 comes early: Ms. Carbon Tax, meet Mr. Bridge
- Bridges: 77,000 deficient, 750 have I-35W design
- Macworld - what the iPhone needs
- Wikipedia and the I-35W collapse
- TSA Administrator on No-Fly list
- A local bridge falls
- Journalism in transition and not-so-irrational voters: Rosenberg
July 2007
- The way we think: reason as an afterthought
- Recommender systems - so that's why they've been disappointing
- A mouse model for calcineurin-type Schizophrenia: exciting news indeed
- Age of Parody: Steven Colbert* and the Fake Steve Jobs
- Variations on the publicly traded company: two class ownership
- Caffeine and apoptosis
- Fallows on the media: a 1996 article is even better today
- NSA 2004: the loons were right, of course
- Stories sunk without a trace: Feb 2004 bioweapon scare
- Paying doctors: Room for huge cuts
- The erratic non-progress of the personal information manager
- How worthless is the no fly list: 20,000:0 false to true positive
- Why you may want your child on the third place team ...
- Hinduism, Mormonism and more - Fundamentalist America in disarray
- Obesity: correlation, not causation
- Addiction and disease: My comments on the TIME Science blog
- Torturers may not sleep well ...
- Please don't buy an iPhone. Yet.
- Iraqi feelings theoretically meaningful?
- Let us not mention this to our space alien visitors ...
- Flatline - escaping the hideous smiley face of junk
- Dyer: Five new essays
- The best time to buy a plane ticket
- No End in Sight: Fallows rave review
- Riding the dragon - Fallows on China
- Those evil Russians - good thing we outed 'em
- John Edwards: Another man the media dislikes
- Privacy and Reputation Management: An update
- Blogs, identity management and brands - an illuminating story
- Andreesen recommends a manual for startups
- Schneier review: excellent essays on secrecy, security and the modern terrorist
- Impeach Cheney
- Doctoring under the influence: EMRs, mobile phones, and cognitive load
- Problems in Google-land: Gmail, Blogger and do you really trust Web 2.0?
- 2011: The year American life changes
- Iraq 101: Why some people may hold a grudge
- Fallows: Petraeus cannot change water into wine
- Seeking a twin cities blog or wiki dedicated to skate and bicycle trail news
- TPM: the polls in WW II
- Immunotherapy for sarcoma - in the 19th century
- Why the GOP dislikes McCain - it's not his support of the conquest of Mesopotamia
- Why I blog - Gordon's Notes and Gordon's Tech
- Reading to kids: don't do it for the test scores
- Patrick Leahy is my hero. You must listen to this.
- The WSJ's Laffler curve fitting: thank you Mr Murdoch
- The OS X iPods
- Broder and O'Reilly: comic relief from the right wing
- How will you know that the iPhone is ready?
- Moments in history - the transformation of the print media
- Friedman actually makes a suggestion worth considering - briefly
- The case of the disappearing Amazon reviews
- Google maps: more exciting developments
- The Hutter prize: AI pattern recognition developed through compression algorithm tests
- Waiting for the PDA version of the iPhone
- Bring in the lawyers: the sharks circle Menu Foods
- Dogma: Science, Religion and Perpetual Motion
- NYT Editorial Page - Start the retreat from Iraq
- The meaning of the Greenland DNA discovery
- The emergence of the carbon tax: first, denial
- Williams syndrome: infantile colic, dorsal/ventral balance, patterning genes and genetic determinism
- Quantum erasure and apple of the tree of knowledge
- Nature: 5 July 2007 - the quantum mechanics and science fiction issue
- Future Shock: Charles Stross and Alvin Toffler
- Photosynth. From ....
- It's time to cancel the war on terror - and the orange alert
- Morford on the pseudo-pardon - scathing and funny
- Yahoo! filters gmail invites as spam
- Social Atom reports on complex networks
- Salmonella poisoned snacks. China. Of course.
- Liar scoots: a physics blog's commentary on Bush
- Joel Spolsky starts a Wiki on the business of software
- Ensembl Genome Browser: Take a walk on the wild side
- Smarter terrorists: this seems ominous
- Future expected, future forgotten: ubiquitous robotics
- Silencing Libby - Bush acts
- Gordon's Tech is not gone -- but feeds may require a manual update
- The joy of parasitism and the strategic wisdom of the cat
- Flash and Silverlight in the iPhone's crosshairs
- Justice takes a surprise turn - the man that got away goes to prison
- Did leaking gas intoxicate the london bombers?
- The good news on global warming: not enough fuel
- Why the Iraq war is a great thing for America
- Apple victorious
- Race returns as ancestry, this time with better brains from China
June 2007
- Friedman on the "transparent society" (without mention of Brin)
- Four new Dyer essays
- What if modern finance doesn't know how to price mortgage derivatives?
- DeLong on the Wall Street Journal's bizarre editorial pages
- Progress is not progressive: the Apple Newton to Palm to iPhone
- Web (ASP) 2.0 applications: still not reliable enough
- Google moment: St. Jean Baptiste Day, Lachine canal, Picasa, map photo, Google Earth ...
- Limits to understanding: evolved circuits, the genetic code, and the mind
- Theory of the surge
- CV reviews the mutual constraints of cosmology and particle physics
- NYT Massive Evolution Science Section
- Kristof on Cheney: four must-read articles in WaPo
- Rahm Emanuel is the spine of the Democratic party - defunding Cheney
- Tires - I think we're past the tip of the iceberg now...
- Netflix alert: the top 1000 films
- Murdoch and Nielsen: how the world works
- Message in a bottle: Michael Cinnamon, phone home
- Tips for talking to journalists
- Choose your poison: HIV or something else
- China: totalitarian anarchy?
- The missing Google solution: no file sharing
- Whistling past the cell phone graveyard
- Rating cellular service by customer turnover
- The paperless office - closer than you think
- Hume: The greatest philosopher?
- Blink by Malcolm Gladwell - a review
- Boingo - how to run a business - into the ground
- Fraud and Globalization: Toy Story III
- Battle of the titans: Google, Microsoft and drawing on your screen
- The 36 (+10) classic mistakes of software development
- Google.org - its mission
- Lessons for the iPhone from browsing with an old version of Internet Explorer
- Stop electing judges
- Food labeling is being discussed now
- Youth baseball, education and health care performance measures
- Charles Stross dismantles the High Frontier
- Dowd asks a good question, hell freezes
- The evolutionary biology of aging: Zimmer's links
- Sachs Reith 2007 - Lecture Four - Social engineering
- Expensive toxic toy trains from ...
- More whacko terrorists - is this why we're still standing?
- Krugman again, this time syndicated
- Fall of The Economist - resting with Al Jazeera?
- verschärfte Vernehmung and George W. Bush
- A fraud victim's false victory and the high tech industry that supports identity theft
- Dyer - four new essays
- Botnets, ovarian cancer, MySpace "offenders" and Bayes
- The Economist on China's toxic export problem
- Cosmic Variance's Sean Carroll on the arrow of time
- Sex offender madness, Minnesota version
- GOP: party of the stone age candidate
- Liberating public goods from the NTIS - radical
- Polonium - an update
- Lesson for healthcare IT
- DeLong's plan for healthcare reform
- Sorenson, Kennedy and the third Sachs' Reith lecture.
- Grumpy old boomers: pencil sharpeners, garbage cans, toasters, DVD/VCR combos and emergent fraud
- Scientific American demonstrates how to eliminate web traffic
- Paris Hilton and Paul Krugman - together?
- Paul Krugman blogs on TPMCafe. Ok. Posts
- Can we fix the media? Krugman on the debates
- The breaking of modern physics: space with non-zero energy
- iPhone: inferior to the (defunct) Samsung i500
- Add to the list: pufferfish and drugged eels
- TAPPED reviews the GOP debates
- Consumers are their own worst enemies
- Journalism, as seen from the inside
- Global climate change: start here
- I liked Al Gore before he was cool
- Kristof reporting from the Chinese-Korean border: many things in a small place
- Advice for saving money
- Complexity is the enemy of security
- Mapplets. Street View. Bubble.
- Twenty-three years to Google's singularity?
- I not as lazy as I thought I was
- Evolution by Stephen Baxter - my late review
- 21st century deception and the evolution of the emergent mind
- The great eye sees all
- The toothpaste? In the US. Of course.
- A reasonable article on the science of slowing aging
- Industrial food and medications from unregulated markets
- Krugman: 2006 article on health care reform
- A commencement address, from Salon
- Cringely retrospective
May 2007
- What do climate change deniers have to do with Philip Morris and DDT?
- Industrial food part XVI: your melamine update
- NYT has made "permalinks" official - another good sign
- Air travel is for the strong alone
- Gasoline prices: refining or secular trend - the 11 year chart
- Reason: climate change knowledge by taxonomy of denial
- The comet that depopulated the Americas
- American meat industry wants you to chew your melamine happily
- Krugman on the resurrection of bin Laden
- Bias in science: not the gender, the children?
- The Economist is doing day passes now ...
- Iraq, the GOP, Memorial day and I don't have anything to say
- Doonesbury.com: denial of service attack?
- Pursuing the evolution of the philosophy of quantum physics
- The Clinton's sleazy donor - InfoUSA
- Prozac retrospective
- Emergence, unanticipated consequences, and hidden inflation
- MySpace and sex offenders -- can this get any more ridiculous?
- The ancients on intellectual property and copyright
- The seas of Titan
- How the Bushies control the news
- Climate Change and the Black Plague
- Gore: Reason and America
- Unable to find the Sachs Reith Lectures? Izmi has them
- Gasoline and the rule of 72
- Advice for Fraud 2.0
- InfoUSA and Wachovia Bank sell out the vulnerable elderly
- Poisoned Toothpaste from China: this would be a good time to start freaking out
- Comey, Gonzales, and Godfather IV
- The IQ of an ecosystem and other questions of emergence
- Edwards - why 615,000 hits on his hair?
- Don’t Blame Bush, the enemy is us
- Reframing history as life in a small town - the Peasant's Revolt
- American fear and our shredded honor - two ringing voices against torture
- Fraud and global supply chains - unanticipated consequence
- Mr. Giuliani, meet General Petraeus
- The state of the GOP candidates
- Hacking war and the end of globalization: Wired interviews John Robb
- Phil Carter on the "war czar"
- Falwell's father
- In Our Time: light and John Barrow
- A brief and plausible guide to writing a resume
- Pet food: new recalls continue
- Guy Kawasaki interviews the head of World Vision
- Pet food security: the libertarian solution
- The single speed universe
- Globalization: Krugman on mitigating the social impact
- Scientology - not reformed in the UK
- Gingrich's Amazon reviews
- American family practice: Canada looking better?
- The genetics of weight: why so long to be accepted
- The limits of the modern military: occupation is no longer an option?
- Patents, copyright and Spider Robinson
- Petraeus: the geek's general
- Apple's MacTel transition: why did they do it?
- Eight lousy years for the market - not just your imagination
- iPhone effect: cell phones do really suck
- Innovations in back pain management: cold and colder packs
- Climate change: the optimist's case
- Happy 50th, your brain's myelin is toasty
- Product excellence: protect the genius
- How to buy a physician - first find someone who agrees with you
- Health care reform 2007 - the Massachusetts plan
- Slouching towards world government: the police force
- Age of wonders: A North Korean Bush joke
- Pet poison chemistry: more on cyanuric acid
- The end of Down syndrome and the rise of the modern eugenics movement
- Bismarck and Mother's Day
- Experiments in employment: DoMyStuff
- The fallacy of delayed retirement
- Geeks crush DMCA
- Money and software features
- SciAm on the Pet Poisons: chemistry at last
- UC advice on surviving a shooter
- Fallows on the Bush attorney scandals - murder suppressed?
- Cho: the system worked, until it didn't
- Eta Carinae: no need to worry
- ACE inhibitors and dementia: radiation protection?
- Trying to locate a science fiction story
- Disasters that weren't: lessons not learned
- Phishing and the retreat from the net
- Poisoned medicine: Even I am stunned.
- FAQ on the state of quantum computing
- Offshoring: 30 million US jobs?
- Pet food roundup: more bad news
- The greatness of geeks: Ad block software
- Boltzmann’s Brain explained
- Genetic testing hits the big time?
- Venus: the forgotten planet
- Enlightenment 2.0 and a Hong Kong student post on the Chinese organ trade
- The brilliance of the geek mob: HD-DVD encryption key now a colored shirt
- Ohio TV finds pet food industry inscrutable
- Open arctic by 2020 and the Sachs Reith Lectures
- The cost of weddings, college education, homes
- Romney and Battlefield Earth. He's so over.
- Dyer: 7 new articles
- So who planted all the Iraq - al Qaeda forgeries?
- Five insider blogs on terrorism and warfare
- Toxicity from the combination of multiple food contaminants
- The melanine story: an unusual source for a summary
- Bayes theorem: binding reasoning to the physical universe
- Pet food recalls: pretty much everything
April 2007
- Compact fluorescent lights: Don't. Just don't.
- Health care is cheap
- The NYT wins one: Melanine use is staggering
- Poisoned pets: it's much worse than you think
- Changing attitudes about mind and responsibility: Patricia Hearst
- Vernor Vinge likes Pratchett
- The Atlantic, finally, blogging
- Mouse brain simulations. Plenty of time left.
- Time, entropy and baby universes
- Broder - the Hindenburg of pundits
- A decline of the American general staff
- Tenet speaks: the interesting parts
- Edwards on Iraq: Fight Bush, set the deadline
- Beg the BBC: Set 'In Our Time' Free!
- The cat is undead until you open the box ...
- CV is doing a tutorial on gravitational waves
- Microsoft morphs into General Motors: my OneCare account termination story
- Life in Guantanamo
- The Tralfamadorians and the transactional interpretation of quantum mechanics
- Asthma rise and the hygiene hypothesis: evidence from Helicobacter
- Calvinist theology: from Garrison Keillor
- Myelin disorders underlie schizophrenia?
- Now aiming SETI dishes at Gliese 581
- Index funds: whether you're a behaviorist or an efficent marketeer
- Masters of the Virtual World: Billion dollar hedge fund managers and the equity price premium
- The virtual fuses with the physical: Google Blueprint
- We'll prevent Alzheimer's before we prevent obesity: lessons of The Pill
- American food for people and pets: an industry insider speaks out
- Nasty, brutal, short - the life of most humans
- Nutro products: how NOT to do a pet food recall
- Calendar curses: remembering Palm
- The missing WMDs - only one man knows the truth
- South Korea apologizes, America puzzled
- Pet poisons: FDA suspects deliberate contamination
- Parental controls - not an Apple thing
- 1900 Predictions for 2000 - my version
- Sachs: a new enlightenment so we may live
- The government owns your medical history
- How long to make the Blacksburg schizophrenia connection?
- Why are so many products so bad? Assymetrical information theory
- Returning vets: medical care and other support
- Reality is not looking good: more QM experiments
- James Fallows has a blog
- Phil Carter summarizes five failed military strategies in Iraq
- Pet food recall again expands, and now there's a motive
- String theory: a one page summary
- tigers, lions, cars and the evolution of risk assessment
- New world: Outsourcing Your Crowdsourcing
- Morford and the virtues of small things
- Why now? Blacksburg and Montreal
- Saletan and the organ trade
- The botched security of banks: Schneier ignites a comment storm
- Corzine didn't wear a seatbelt - does your dog have one?
- Accusation and injustice: Duke and Lacrosse
- Apple's OS delay: iLife, iWork, NetInfo, remote control -> it's bad
- Warm-blooded Fish?
- Humanzees and the Macaque genome
- The pernicious affects of taxes and accounting rules: crummy software and cubicle farms
- Globalization: poisoned pet food in Namibia
- Failure to label on-demand reprints: shame on Peachpit
- BBC 4 Reith Lectures 2007: Sachs and the modern world - by mp3, podcast and rss
- The strage saga of the scrambled letter not-urban myth
- Romney: not possible
- NYT: genetics of gender behavior, the gendered brain, and the evolution of the intellect
- Iraq: an exit strategy proposal
- A frivolous top 100 person list -- from Japan
- Grand canyon skywalk: how blogs change the cost of incompetence
- Pet food poison: Americans smarter than expected?
- Gribbin, Wittgenstein, Amazon and the reasonable ineffectiveness of mathematics
- Dyer on "300" - Iranians are wrong, right, and need not fear
- Are we contributing to the delinquency of untenured academic bloggers?
- Our fiends the toxoplasma
- Quantum reality, with the math: Decoherence and Hidden Variables
- China limits the retail organ trade
- Theocrats in the justice department
- Spam: latest innovation - social engineering by consecutive email threads and using process patents as an offensive weapon
- Pet poison: Congress to hold hearings, implications sinking in
- TIME on pet food: last post of the day on this topic
- Poisoning 2007: Melanine as a marker, and where the heck did the stuff come from?
- Poisoning 2007: ChemNutra, Anying, and it keeps getting worse
- The story of the GOP's Pharma benefit bill (Medicare D) oozes out ...
- Cheney/Bush and torture - now it's sensory deprivation
- Jobs predicts the death of audio DRM within a year
- The return of VRML? Google 3D warehouse
- Christianity and data: Not promising
- Dyer states the obvious about the Iranian snatch operation
- The Poincare Conjecture, In Our Time, and the limits of human minds
- Pet Poisoning 2007: SFGate has the best overview
- Clearwater: crushed by condominums
- Lycra swim shirts (rash guard) - no sun-fearing geek should be without
- Aminopterin, melanine and what else?
- A clear flaw with closed source: longevity
March 2007
- Apple TV ships, iTunes Store a smoldering crater
- Kristof on how to turn lunch money into hope
- Aminopterin update: likely thousands harmed
- Fear in the blogosphere: Microsoft hunts again
- Aminopterin update: isolating the source and it's not the FBI's job ...
- British government concedes the 650,000 death toll for Iraq is credible
- Phil Carter on the six year free fall of America
- Aminopterin update: more details from blogs
- Update on the unfinished count of the human genome
- Elizabeth and John Edwards
- A review of the pet food industry
- Six "top 10" lists for software people
- Are you an engineer? (and a joke)
- Border crossings: searching random laptops for porn
- Cats, Canaries and Homeland security
- Poisoned pets: Chinese gluten, rat poison and lessons for trade and regulation
- Surprise: AAC to CD to AAC produces awful results
- Evil
- Gopher lives
- Kashmir - tourists again
- Spam with real addresses: another revolting development
- The robotic ape: Morality and the ventromedial prefrontal cortex
- Science and faith in the senate
- The Homo ergaster Turing test: a mind set in stone
- Dementia: is it really a disease?
- Pet poisoning: 1/6 die in testing?!
- The surgeon gene
- Flatland and the 248 dimensions of time
- Industrial food and pet poisoning - lessons?
- Vanguard has the security question sickness - big time
- Life in Web 2.0: just don't ask for reliability
- TimesSelect: Free for a .edu address
- Foreign Policy: latest addition to my blogroll
- The Measure of Things
- The mystery of the apple keyboard
- Another longtime reader abandons the Economist: Crooked Timer
- Senator Tim Johnson is recovering
- Karl Rove and the one party state
- Friedman and the summer of war
- The "surge" turns into a prolonged commitment
- Breaking a network: first kill the cadets
- More Dyer articles online - and 9/11 conspiracies
- Gonzales is gone: another man who knows too much
- Exercise and cognition - I'm still skeptical
- Canada and immigration: the undiscovered laboratory
- Bell's theorem: My reading of it (at last)
- Excel: in contradiction to services oriented architecture
- More entrepreneur advice: build your own infrastructure
- Are process patents a spammers best friend?
- Quantum mystery, quantum theology
- Cher, the hidden wounded, and an odd resemblance to WW I
- The limits to DRM: my new car stereo
- Does Google understand hyperlinks?
- Google and data lock -- not being evil
- How to fight the Cheney/Bush torture machine -- assault the weak points
- Beyond the Gonzales Eight - the prosecutors who did the GOPs bidding
- Software evolution and the DST mess
- HD Photo - can anyone trust Microsoft?
- Health care financing: the 80/20 questions are the only questions
- Google's DRM: two licenses for Google Earth Plus
- Homeland security: radiation detector overload
- Women and combat: the real problem?
- Outsourcing the military: Another Bush/Cheney mind-boggler
- Loosely coupled life and the evolution of software
- Understanding software: object oriented programming begins to fade
- Restoring American civilization: 12 steps
- Market failures: the publicly traded company slips the invisible hand
- The US military's broken bureaucracy
- Empires of the middle east - a seriously fascinating site
- The limits of disaster predictions: complex adaptive systems
February 2007
- California genius and the noncompete clause
- Cringely is blogging for Technology Evangelist
- Diffusion of technology: armor penetratiing IEDs for cheap
- Political purges: Bush and the AGs
- Failures of the human mind - framing and judgment
- Therapy for severe cognitive and behavioral disorders: A new era
- Using canines to make fake fur: what's the true story?
- Deriving mass/energy equivalence with a simple thought experiment
- Do developing minds have growing pains?
- The Bayesian Heresy: Understanding Innovation
- The Dreams of Boltzmann Brains
- Conservapedia: and now for something completely different
- Jimmy Carter: can he be made a saint?
- How to murder 100,000 people - and get away with it
- Krugman has broken me. Oh, and Edwards health plan
- How not to thrill your customers
- Deinventing government: renewing a US child's passport
- Aetna: winner of this month's stupid security policy
- Router admin password: don't use the default!
- Yahoo! has abandoned desktop search
- Four decades of television: last of the rabbit ears
- Cheap stuff that doesn't work: are we figuring this out?
- More evidence of hacked wetware: the DARPP-32 gene and schizophrenia
- Quantum computing: revenge of the analog
- The peculiar scarcity of books on quantum entanglement
- The end of SARS and the use of synthetic pathogens to combat epidemics
- Walls around the world - Dyer
- The dog: symbiote or parasite?
- Teraflop 2007 and 1996
- Building productivity solutions via mash-ups: Reider's office schedule
- The astronaut story: I'd want an MRI
- Friends don't let friends buy a RAZR
- Why Apple can't license Fair Play
- Buying dissenting voices: how it's done
- Salon: another spook speaks out
- When does Amazon censor reviews?
- An Amiga 2000 working for a TV network
- Bandwidth: why the net is slow and getting slower
- Reducing poverty by leveraging globalization: SciAm
- Lost - all search is not equal
- How to rescue a failed state
- Messiah Cruise and the glass houses
- Google adds machine learning into your search results - if you authenticate
- Is Bill Gates delusional?
- Dyer has seven new articles - and an improved web page
- DeLong on inequality
- Thirty years from frozen to comfy -- the end of the last "ice age"
- Molly Ivins was a Minnesotan (briefly)
- Trailer parks and the new suburbs: how is my world changing?
January 2007
- Credit card scammers: the story continues
- The Terrifying Toothpick Fish - I'll take the hungry shark please
- Revolution Health: an onerous linking policy
- NY Mayor Bloomberg is an ass
- Lest we forget: how Microsoft used to do business
- The blog is an incredible thing. Irrefutable evidence.
- Elbow pads and snowboarding
- Higgs
- How to hack a human: start with the insula
- The NeXT Years: Steve Job
- All DeLong all the time: Egregious Moderation
- Why I didn't renew my Harvard Business Review subscription
- Even Robert Reich had something nice to say about Bush
- Microwave sponges: two minutes on full
- Spam: state of the art report
- John Edwards' blog
- Humans: 70,000 years old
- Bush: something good?!!
- Cultures We Really Evolved that are Stranger Than Any You can Think of
- We don't have Exxon to kick around any more ...
- The answer to the Fermi Paradox? Alas, probably not.
- Sprint and Motrola conspire to sell me an AT&T (Cingular) iPhone
- Obama's smoking habit
- The trillion dollar war
- Buy.com: why so much spam?
- The current manufacture and retail of custom assembled infants
- An interesting Cato article?! Health insurance vs. health cost insulation
- Visualizing Information
- Humanity: up from the sludge
- Google blogger and the problem of asymmetric relationships
- Smoking: now for the menthol
- Dale Carnegie - the condensed version
- How to crack a system
- Seeking Dickens: mental illness and prisons
- Damn Interesting: The Woman with a Limp
- Domestic spying: thank heavens for the Dems
- Dubai: Slate's well-traveled tales
- Pasteurized milk, gut ecology, and google scholar
- Books about Minnesota: Why they annoy me
- Even the dimmest eyes are opening ... A right wing flack reneges
- Blumenthal on the end-game of the "surge"
- Sarbanes-Oxley means no features in future software updates from publicly traded companies?
- Amazon and the evil of cellphone companies
- The vengeance of the democrats
- Searching a 100 million stars for something like us
- TIME releases their pre-arranged introduction to my new Apple iPhone
- My wife will really enjoy my old Samsung i500 phone ....
- The Lord of the Rings and the Seige of Constantinople
- More Dyer
- There is snow in Minnesota
- Credit score - forget it. You want your Security Score ...
- Pelosi delivers: maybe things will get better ....
- The fatal flaw in distributing encrypted media
- They deserved better leadership ...