The Curious Engineer

Gordon's Notes

2008–2009

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December 2009

  1. What Saka (Indian civil calendar) year is it?
  2. Healthcare standards: how you know they blew it
  3. Thank you Mr President.
  4. CARE.ORG for charity: four stars, never bugs us
  5. Cloud Lesson #72: The risk of letting Google own your web site
  6. America, please grow a spine
  7. In praise of cardiac risk calculators
  8. Google Health and my Google password
  9. Tech Churn: OS X Server, MobileMe and the Cloud
  10. Amazon holiday
  11. The health care bill
  12. Coldest major cities?
  13. Alzheimer's, cancer and aging
  14. Scylla and Charybdis: Corruption, health care reform and climate change.
  15. Google vs. Apple - Stross on the phone wars
  16. Copenhagen - Better than I'd expected
  17. Prague as seen by superman
  18. Why mad cow? Against cannibalism.
  19. The ChromeBook rumors grow
  20. Google's IQ boost is only beginning
  21. Lieberman explained: He's a lot like Bush
  22. Post-HIV America
  23. Responding to Facebook’s lions: Stop friends using the apps
  24. Another world - this one watery
  25. Alzheimer's and obesity: it's not the fat, it's the leptin?
  26. 15 cigarettes yields 1 mutation - the new world of cancer genetics
  27. The most marvelous world of the virus
  28. Never a good feeling – an attack on my Google account
  29. The ultimate climate conspiracy …
  30. The common core of human language – as shown in speech recognition systems
  31. Understanding secure systems: The Chromium extension example
  32. Lazy journalism and the both sides fallacy – Ed Lotterman edition
  33. The historic pricing of an Ella Fitzgerald CD set
  34. Gordon's scale of corporate evil - 1st edition
  35. It's not AT&T's fault, it's the iPhone?
  36. A really tough cop ...
  37. Kurzweil and homeopathy: now crackpot certified
  38. The state of social networks: Facebook, Twitter and one other
  39. Financial Times – the feeds and the Fail
  40. Singular fun with Fermi
  41. The siege of Munster – Yikes.
  42. It's not over. The rise of second generation spam.
  43. Climategate: Gordon Speaks
  44. Complexity attack – the illustrated version
  45. In Our Time - Siege of Vienna seems familiar

November 2009

  1. The Family Telescope: Orion Dobsonian or Edmund Scientific Astroscan … or Orion StarBlast?
  2. Bad web sites, genetic fitness, and choosing a service provider
  3. Fermi Paradox review article - 2005
  4. Discovering medical prices and the problem with paying cash
  5. Lagrangian finance and age of wonders
  6. Left Behind: Ludd, Beck and the non-tribal roots of tea party rage
  7. My Saint Paul Minnesota speeding ticket – emergent solutions to emergent consequences
  8. Plus ca change – Non. Twenty years of a solstice letter.
  9. The shocking truth - the birthers are almost right ...
  10. 529 plans can be rebalanced twice in 2009
  11. Lipid guidelines: Sometimes the emperor really is starkers
  12. Sparta and the disturbing flexibility of human culture
  13. Chrome OS - the Parental Controls
  14. When to accept an Apple OS update
  15. Google's failures - and recent improvements
  16. Fans of Glenn Beck
  17. Twilight of the mail
  18. Health IT Standards - what I would do
  19. How much is the gBook in the Window?
  20. A smart mind is a dangerous thing to waste
  21. Paul Graham on the price of the App Store
  22. Health insurance: we're defeated by a complexity attack
  23. AT&T “A List” – the gift that’s not
  24. The cat brain simulator. Game over?
  25. The paradox of 21st century prosperity
  26. The world is going to get bigger
  27. There are only two fixes for the Apple iPhone App Store
  28. Mobile phone fraud - The accidental data charge and other scams
  29. I add the despised comment captcha
  30. About that health care bill …
  31. Reason – it’s more than IQ
  32. The ultimate take down of the disgraced Levitt and Dubner
  33. Next up: AAFP to endorse e-cigarettes
  34. Dems for a rationalist GOP - is there somewhere to donate?
  35. Smart Smoker e-cigarette: From China without regulation
  36. Forgotten things - Gypsies and Indians
  37. Angela Merkel's second crossing
  38. Bad back better
  39. How business stories are made - the inside scoop
  40. Death by rosary bead - poisonous plants
  41. Why are automotive web sites so ugly and disorganized?
  42. Eye Glasses and other iPhone health care related apps
  43. The magical bomb detecting wand saves Iraqi police
  44. The Abyss. Averted?
  45. Marcia Angell on the corruption of physician expertise
  46. The hero of the marketarians ...
  47. My son destroys 2010 Outback sales
  48. Curious world and Google Wave
  49. Reading my writing translated
  50. Wanted: email redirect to google reader note shares
  51. Facebook has the eBay disease - the Farmville story
  52. Bad genes, bad people and a crisis of punishment?
  53. Goodbye to Discworld - Unseen Academicals
  54. Contribute your Google Data Liberation suggestions

October 2009

  1. My latest take on Twitter
  2. On vaccines
  3. Midwest Skijorers Club
  4. Windows 7 pounds OS X: the screen scales
  5. The economics of modern military action
  6. Will football go the way of boxing?
  7. Google’s consumption of the mapping industry
  8. Fermi Paradox: life is extremely rare
  9. Progress is not guaranteed
  10. That which does not kill me postpones the inevitable.
  11. Apple does things differently
  12. AT&T surprise charges with added lines and phone switch
  13. H1N1 - things new to me
  14. The iMac 27: missing resolution independent OS X
  15. The African mobile phone revolution continues
  16. Use Get Satisfaction to talk to Google
  17. Honda knows its customers
  18. iMac Intel 27" Teardown: essential reading for would-be customers
  19. The Dinosaurs were tougher than we thought - Shiva
  20. Corporations rot from the top - the GM story
  21. The Google branded netbook is coming in early 2010
  22. Flu.gov -- all the flu all the time
  23. Boethius – the most important philosopher you’ve probably never heard of
  24. An abundance of earth-class planets
  25. Snowe has defenders in Maine
  26. The triumph of the Yes Men – Chamber of Commerce endorses climate change legislation
  27. Why I dropped the Freakonomics blog
  28. Obama and the Laser – stop the stupidity.
  29. The NYT does not like the Taliban
  30. Simultaneous infections with multiple viruses - why are there so few studies?
  31. The paradoxical power of the Snowe effect
  32. When it's as good as it gets
  33. The Jackson movie - not my problem
  34. The NY Times has about 70 blogs
  35. The fears of the GOP base - last defenders of America
  36. Planning for the collapse of Goldman Sachs
  37. The evolutionary wonder of reading – hints from intracranial electrophysiology
  38. Google reader micro-blogging and changes to Gordon Notes
  39. Jim Carrey - enemy of the enlightenment
  40. The epidemiology of suicide – human only?
  41. How politics works ..
  42. Worse than 1981
  43. Compensate Saudi Arabia for CO2 reductions?
  44. The treacherous heart of the BlackBerry
  45. When galaxies collide
  46. Natural selection and H1N1 immunization
  47. The problem with the corporate PAC
  48. Downside of Rush's race baiting career
  49. Nokia netbook exposes future AT&T wireless data plans
  50. This is why I don't do early OS X updates
  51. Fear the Cloud: Microsoft Danger was well named
  52. White water and the end of prediction
  53. Growing jobs - my old stimulus proposal
  54. Google good, AT&T and old FCC evil
  55. The file could not be found: The Decline of OS X
  56. The Nobel for defeating the modern GOP
  57. How to present - the super-short summary
  58. Does last year's seasonal flu vaccine make us more susceptible to this year's H1N1?
  59. After healthcare reform the cleanup begins
  60. Gmail - 5 years, 6 months
  61. Verizon to support Google Voice on Android phones
  62. The end of the ink jet printer – and the twilight of printing
  63. Vastitas Borealis water ice - did I slip into another universe?
  64. Marek Edelman, Commander in Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Dies at 90
  65. Every 3 days you have a new heart
  66. The game changing Apple has done
  67. The software Apple can't do
  68. Good question
  69. The Decline of America - long distance interconnect pricing
  70. Google Searchmash
  71. My current iPhone wish list – as of OS 3.1
  72. Campaign Finance Reform - The Publicly Owned Politician
  73. iPhoto - Apple's stupidity burnz
  74. Photo sharing – a vast generation gap
  75. The Cloud is slow (so's my phone)
  76. A billion dollar infographic - terrific
  77. Are you getting enough out of iPhone Map.app?

September 2009

  1. A world without AIDS?
  2. iPhone 2014 – what will it be like?
  3. When OS X truly sucks: screen sharing
  4. Google Apps - vote for your favorite feature
  5. In Our Time - The Weak Shall Inherit the Earth
  6. The problem with software (an ongoing series)
  7. Mysteries of modern capitalism: The missing iPhone 2.5 mm headset adapter
  8. Avoid Alzheimer's - hold the Provigil?
  9. iTunes U - the Singularity is behind us
  10. Gawande and NEJM cost of care roundtable
  11. Fear the Cloud - Blogger's unfixed 5000 post limit
  12. Gift exchanges and lawn mower tips
  13. Beware the traps of the Software World
  14. Health care reform – the reality problem
  15. The roots of Klan 2.0 and 912 – A justified fear of change
  16. Jimmy Carter
  17. Climate change deniers: fame is its own reward
  18. Tech churn: The Franklin Planner and Google Calendar
  19. Pooping prions - this is more than interesting
  20. Global finance and parasites
  21. Surprise - physicians are big Obama supporters
  22. Montreal style rent-a-bike coming to Minneapolis?
  23. Birthers, Deathers and Truthers - the reason behind the madness
  24. Pawlenty's humorous political move - opting out of health care
  25. The Speech
  26. The good side of the Wiki - search
  27. Death of email part XI: forwarded emails with big red phishing warnings
  28. Google storage isn't so free any more ...
  29. Baseball parent communication: is it getting easier?
  30. Armstrong admits moon landing faked!!

August 2009

  1. Obamacare. Wait. It's not over.
  2. The evolution of comment spam - from parasite to symbiote?
  3. OS X 10.6 - do you feel lucky punk? Do you?
  4. Building a mutual fund company - in 3 panels
  5. Yeah, Cheney/Bush used the orange alerts to scare up votes
  6. The Google Voice story: It was Apple, not AT&T
  7. Conde Nast's latest spam ploy - Axciom's Delivery.net
  8. The check engine light in the mobile net era
  9. One possible strategic error in the Obama reform
  10. The CDC's vaccine data mess - please help them out
  11. American Express credit card information theft
  12. Galaxies like stars in the sky
  13. Inmate Kyle Foggo – Creator of the post-2003 torture facilities
  14. Oddities of modern video – frame rates and more
  15. Health insurance reform – 8 points to repeat and repeat
  16. Governing America – the manual
  17. A strange note of optimism on health care reform
  18. Academia collides with public health
  19. Silly Gartner hype cycle charts and "idea management"
  20. Android comments from an iPhone perspective
  21. Google reader “like” and the shared discovery process
  22. COBOL and the surprising longevity of enterprise software
  23. Breeding even smarter dogs
  24. Search engine blind test: poor Yahoo
  25. Status five nanosols
  26. How to use bear spray
  27. Google - please give me tasks that appear on my calendar
  28. Google Maps is seriously broken today
  29. How to deliver services badly
  30. The Belgian Atomium
  31. White House deep in the muck with drug makers
  32. Blogging about NYT journalists – now with an extra level of proofreading
  33. iPhone users are revolting
  34. Pogue speaks out on the Apple/AT&T Google Voice ban
  35. News: Dowd says something novel
  36. By their enemies ye shall know them: Great news for health insurance reform
  37. Two income families and the curious economics of unemployment
  38. The (historic) Battle of Google Voice - Enter the FCC
  39. Central Park, Sioux Falls and Guns in America
  40. The 100 Iranian dissidents - a telling photograph
  41. The iPhone Google Voice debacle - straight from bloggers to the FCC

July 2009

  1. Maher on the Birthers - and finding the levers on the loons
  2. Don't count Obama out ...
  3. Note to Fed: Huh? Back off! Back off! Aiieeeeee …
  4. Latitude and Voice: The impeccable logic of AT&T/Apple’s App Store rejections
  5. The evolutionary wonder of the high flying goose
  6. Apple adds outrage to injury – forced refunds on the removed Google Voice apps
  7. Complain to Apple about the Google Voice fiasco
  8. Buy.com is on my blacklist
  9. During early electrification, did home lighting worsen?
  10. Tech churn and the fall of the Feed Reader – a new meme tag
  11. Dear iPhone – it’s not going to work, but can we still be friends?
  12. An excellent history of the earth
  13. O'Reilly is innumerate
  14. The day after: Lessons from Apple's rejection of Google Voice and Latitude
  15. The Apple-Google War: The Battle of Google Voice
  16. Best You can Be responds to Scientific American’s anti-Ritalin screed
  17. Imagining the Singularity in 1965…
  18. How Google can enable iPhone location tracking
  19. The Minneapolis Friday Night Skate
  20. Heath care reform – wake me up when they start talking about the Lexus
  21. Jon Stewart on the Birthers
  22. iPhone trouble: Apple rejects Google Latitude, possibly Google Voice
  23. The organ trade mafia of New Jersey
  24. Collins believes - Obama will get a health care bill
  25. Minnesota science scores: bring in the grown-ups
  26. Happiness - I told you so
  27. How the iPhone has warped our sense of Japan’s mobile market
  28. Cold laughter echoes from Orwell’s grave
  29. When the market is your deity, there is no such thing as corruption
  30. In Our Time - The Sunni-Shia Split
  31. Hacked Twitter advises: lie on security questions
  32. No Google Voice for iPhone? AT&T’s deal with the Devil …
  33. Geriatric computing
  34. China: economy grows 8%, prices fall 1.7%
  35. Singularity alert: Nearest New York Subway for iPhone
  36. Apple’s App Store frozen?
  37. Was the crash of ‘08 worse than the crash of ‘29?
  38. Signs of the end times
  39. The tyranny of the mean
  40. Most obvious comment on that super-secret CIA program
  41. Palin, Noonan, and the fears of euro America
  42. The Sotomayor hearings are over
  43. The mindset of the GOP establishment - Peggy Noonan
  44. Understanding China - an excellent WSJ on ethnic identity in modern China
  45. The post-lead era: living with less reliable electronic hardware
  46. The Google Netbook is all about two things, and the big one is cheaper
  47. Facebook's ad voting - fascinating
  48. Is your drywall emitting toxic radioactive gases? No, really …
  49. Do you want health care reform? Then take 10 minutes with the Organizing for America web page.
  50. Parasite mind
  51. Google Chromestellation has landed, the Netbook wars begin again
  52. Since I'm paying for your health care, how much will you get?
  53. Twin Cities: where Somali meet Hmong
  54. Evolution is not obliged to simplify our lives
  55. The post-DRM world - Dave Brubeck via iTunes
  56. The origins of corporate mediocrity - promoting the best
  57. The end of passwords - episode LXVII
  58. Shades of grief
  59. Other people love Microsoft Word almost as much as I do
  60. The GOP’s amazing spiral into historic irrelevance
  61. Alternative local news: MinnPost and TC Daily Planet
  62. CompuServe was still alive! It’s dead now.
  63. Green shoots on climate change
  64. Alaska - stranger than you can imagine
  65. Visit to a lost world
  66. Above average: Shangri La on the Mississippi
  67. Google: Please fix Gmail's broken threading model
  68. An old mystery – why did Saddam block UN inspections?
  69. Wanted: A consumer-geek friendly triple store database management solution
  70. What gene studies reveal about the diversity and resilience of mind, and the limitations of psychiatric disease classification
  71. Another marker of the GOP's long fall - no more Jews
  72. Consumer Reports blogs
  73. U.S. Bank's ID Shield makes me scream
  74. Dog food: now it's the fluoride

June 2009

  1. Coleman is gone. At last.
  2. States nobody should live in: add Georgia
  3. Human progress and global climate change – are we good enough?
  4. Finance transactions aren't so standard after all
  5. Cyclopath.org: A GeoWiki for the Twin Cities metro area
  6. Mysteries of Annandale Minnesota
  7. Alternative medicine and celebrity illness
  8. Health wars: The armies muster
  9. How to choose a city to live in
  10. In appreciation of RealClimate
  11. Sprint while you commute?
  12. Facebook observations
  13. Kristof points out the AMA doesn’t represent physicians! (At last)
  14. Pro wrestling and celebrity tweets
  15. Tough times are good times for LinkedIn
  16. Don't forget Iran, but worry about China
  17. The paradox of Amazon's negative reviews: Best material, lowest ratings
  18. World industrial output – tracking the first Great Depression
  19. The interesting aspects of Steve Job’s alleged liver transplant
  20. Neda Soltani - an Iranian student
  21. Why do we tolerate so many Apple bugs?
  22. Hell frozen: a GOP columnist says something non-raving about health care
  23. Isn't the NYT's Roger Cohen a bit old for this?
  24. Apple's iPhone Calendar makes me miss my parents' anniversary
  25. Why smart software can be so stupid – the Microsoft Access example
  26. H1N1 (swine) flu – it’s back in Minnesota
  27. Fear in China's government
  28. Apologies to politicians of 1990s Japan and 1930s America
  29. The CDC flunks the H1N1 test
  30. A good thing happens: fiber optic connections to the Horn of Africa
  31. The very cool Layar mobile augmented reality browser (for iPhone)
  32. The backup problem – sometimes the backup isn’t worth the cost
  33. Gmail: I don’t love you any more, but we can still be friends
  34. Choosing a brand? check GoodGuide
  35. Subversive theophysics - Greg Egan
  36. State of the Art; The Origin of Life
  37. A cogent, and funny, observation on health care costs
  38. Health War II
  39. The Dept of Energy joins the peak oil parade
  40. Google's problem: too many Starters, too few Finishers
  41. Bubble III
  42. The mass murder of Navy sonar
  43. It’s not Obama’s deficit
  44. The Pre advantage: $1,200 cheaper
  45. Google's HTML 5 - the netbook chromestellation platform
  46. iPhone 3GS - interesting disability features
  47. Apple WWDC: Yay iPhone, Boo Snow Leopard
  48. Peak hydrocarbon output in 2020?
  49. Foreign Policy review on child soldiers
  50. Gingrich is a loon
  51. The implications of cyber war in an interconnected world
  52. Requiem for a gerserker - Gordon's Laws of Geekery
  53. AvantGo RIP - memories of the roaring 90s
  54. Who will acquire Palm ... and the Pre?
  55. The long slow development of human culture - and technology
  56. BBC's annotated version of Obama's speech to the Islamic world
  57. Kristof was at Tiananmen square - his memories
  58. China's perspective on North Korea

May 2009

  1. Wisdom from the flames - a different OS X future
  2. Unheard stories of the 19th century - Irish evacuation to Montreal
  3. Videotron torments and choice in broadband markets (revised)
  4. The WHY of medical cost variation
  5. Mobile phone and automotive GPS collision avoidance for pedestrians, bicyclists, tricyclists, skaters and pets
  6. How Apple could surprise
  7. Excellent discussion of randomness in everyday life
  8. Another Cheney fan rediscovers waterboarding really is torture
  9. Google needs to add permalinks to their social link generated feed page
  10. IBM should buy Bloglines and roll it into Lotus Connections
  11. Dementia is normal - and what that means
  12. The GOP's new message: we are a nation of cowards
  13. Obama vs. Cheney is as simple as Good vs. Evil
  14. Microsoft ads wound Apple. You know my number Apple …
  15. Memories of the Chevette
  16. Relativity as a consequence of quantum entanglement
  17. Obama's retreat strengthens calls for a Truth Commission
  18. The state of wilderness tracking
  19. Regional airlines, emergent fraud and enlightenment 2.0
  20. Good news from India
  21. I ask Wolfram|Alpha …
  22. iPhone rumors I can believe in …
  23. Star Trek -- the deep dive on the temporal discontinuities
  24. 200 cases of illicit nuclear material trafficking each year
  25. The interesting but irritating Grant study of life stories
  26. The GOP is again the party of torture – and it might work for them
  27. In 1994 we expected these things to disappear ...
  28. Star Trek NG's torture lesson
  29. The days of debug.exe
  30. Why Win 7 will work - XP is toast
  31. Oprah Winfrey is a problem
  32. Weirdest email ever
  33. Amazon Vine – free products for reviews
  34. Google Voice quality falls off a cliff
  35. The Virus
  36. The Way of the Palm - I'm a lapsed member
  37. The ideological roots of climate change nihilism
  38. The catalog of cell lines - as a book
  39. No, religion does not make you a better person

April 2009

  1. More proof of Google's mere humantity
  2. Interesting data on pandemic flu mortality
  3. Terrific set of bicycle commuting tips
  4. All Swine Flu all the time -- the WSJ page
  5. And now for the health care wars … compensation, round one
  6. Android netbook – things start to get interesting again
  7. Four Yorkshiremen – The Monty Python Poor skit
  8. When social conservatives can be helpful …
  9. Contrarian opinion – the bailout is working, and it’s relatively cheap
  10. Google Latitude, Profiles, and “friends”
  11. The lessons of 2002 - humility and expertise
  12. Proof that Google is mortal - Gmail Contacts
  13. Obama and Chavez - I like him better now than ever
  14. Nimbophobia: Why you should fear the cloud - Google's performance problems
  15. Monsters
  16. WGP Obama
  17. The best about Twitter essay
  18. Time to sign petition for a public insurer option
  19. Google's mobile app search recognition is working ...
  20. Submit your Google Data Liberation requests
  21. Leading indicators - Harvard's finance grads
  22. Google's confusing social graph strategy: Google reader friends via Google Chat
  23. Confessions of a real estate agent | Salon Life
  24. Cutting your communication costs
  25. Identity theft on social networks - nobody is who they say they are
  26. Oath Keepers - the dank smell of fear on the right
  27. If the Segway hype had come true
  28. Microsoft's holds Netbook ground - at a cost
  29. Microsoft security: Adobe is the problem
  30. AT&T is a partner to phone scams that target the vulnerable elderly
  31. The Obama difference
  32. What stands between us and GD II
  33. The twilight of voice mail
  34. The danger of the right, and the Canadian solution
  35. Best of the day - The Tweeting Guardian
  36. Gmail Autopilot powered by CADIE

March 2009

  1. Don't take passport forms to Post Office
  2. Lessons from Outlook 2007 Notes colors
  3. War is going to the robots because ...
  4. The cracked Netflix DVD problem
  5. Why the EU can't do stimulus programs
  6. Reporter is tasered - interesting video
  7. Financial Times - Satirical 2020 edition
  8. Freeman Dyson and Linus Pauling
  9. Evolution of dog and human - mutual selection
  10. The Fermi Paradox goes mainstream - Dyer
  11. New York's Senator Gillibrand conceals her deal with Satan
  12. Carrington class solar storms -- another reason to own a cabin with running water
  13. Reinhardt on Obama's health plan
  14. How big should financial firms be?
  15. Death to Captchas
  16. Journalists braver than you or I
  17. The crash began in 1984?
  18. The illusions of expertise
  19. The Ghost of CompuServe haunts the web
  20. Primates in zoos are not quite sane ...
  21. Google books is the best way to request library books
  22. Not the Great Recession
  23. Nokia never again - mobile phone unlocking lessons
  24. Olympian coding - a snapshot from iPhone game development
  25. Garrison Keillor's mother
  26. The problem with Afghanistan - we're broke
  27. Is it time to listen to customers again?
  28. Minnesota's Michele doesn't disappoint
  29. Ecco Pro on Amazon's VM
  30. New resolution: No signup without an account removal option
  31. Aaronson stomps Rand
  32. The non-existent iPhone Calendar API - it's Android's fault
  33. The Sci Am robot roudup - classics from Moravec and Kurzweil
  34. JAMA scandal continues to unfold
  35. The bullseye on Goldman Sachs
  36. Kodak to customers: We have your children. Send money now.
  37. Geithner plan: Krugman nay, DeLong yay
  38. Obama and the dog (corrected)
  39. Health care reform – lessons from Quebec
  40. Skynet cometh
  41. The senescent web - lessons from eHow's cedar shake advice
  42. Google GrandCentral (Voice) has been saving me $80 a month
  43. Fastest IE 8 bug find ever
  44. How should we treat scientific fraud?
  45. Another day, another 200 billion to pay
  46. Religion and recycling bin aversion
  47. Jurassic Lark? Nooooooooo
  48. Urban renewal - Habitat tears down houses
  49. The classification and heritage of American torture
  50. The other side of a bad kid dead
  51. Against creationism - the toenail
  52. Get ready to refinance your mortgage?
  53. Annals of poorly chosen words - best and the brightest
  54. Avoiding the baby in car tragedy - the tethered parent
  55. Another study showing why 65 is a reasonable retirement age
  56. iPhone 3.0 - how many of my wishes were granted?
  57. Why is iPhone 3.0 push notification carrier specific?
  58. Storms in the cloud: Google Reader, Google Calendar ...
  59. When stocks fall, where does the money go? Essential reading
  60. The dangers of the early books
  61. Is AIG's major counterparty China?
  62. Apple's defective iMac displays
  63. The details of American torture
  64. When DRM is a force for good - the Apple App Store software renaissance
  65. App Store overload - smarter browser needed!
  66. The Dow is at 1966 levels?!
  67. JAMA Editor does not have an ego deficiency problem
  68. Dreaming of iPhone 3.0 - my wishes
  69. Pogue reveals the GrandCentral/Google Voice matters I've missed
  70. Twitter and Facebook - because feed readers didn't make it
  71. Help Google give you better ads - and think about your identities!
  72. Ideology measured
  73. Which would you choose?
  74. Insuring against the end of the world
  75. The Apple Chromestellation Netbook: OS X mobile + Safari + MobileMe. What role AT&T?
  76. Gordon's 2nd law of happiness
  77. Good news for the gray of hair
  78. Obama replies to Buffett - change can't wait
  79. Influencing the world - a ranking
  80. Is Google search becoming less effective? Is it Google, or the net?
  81. The nature of time - essential reading for reality hobbyists
  82. Why we need a reformed GOP: Helping small business
  83. The Machiavellian Dems ...
  84. Misreading Atlas Shrugged
  85. Netbook doom - Google drops a hammer
  86. Google has a Data Liberation team
  87. Slate asks why no 9/11 repeat?
  88. Quantum madness. Chapter IX.
  89. Best of the Stewart takedowns
  90. Bush. Not as bad as most thought. Worse.
  91. Absurdly close asteroid (DD45) miss
  92. Brilliant Morford rant
  93. AT&T fraud - slowing the EDGE network
  94. What if ours were a crisis of currency and quality?
  95. What works best for lower back pain
  96. The Icelandic antidote to optimism
  97. Apple again delivering value for the dollar
  98. Against the crash - why I'm optimistic
  99. Hydrotouring via Lunocet
  100. What did the GOP lose besides the election?
  101. St Paul Pioneer Press listed on the next 10 to die list
  102. When giants walked the earth ...
  103. Pages for the scrapbook - NYT Business page this morning
  104. Redoing automobile distribution - the very old is new again
  105. What does the rise of Limbaugh's party mean for the religious right?
  106. Jindal - the GOP's gift to the nation
  107. Economist obituary: Christopher Nolan
  108. Economic recovery test -- the pencil sharpener

February 2009

  1. The iChat abandonware problem - a sign Apple is in trouble
  2. A beautiful opportunity for an OS X app – front end to GVC
  3. The Empire Strikes Back – Microsoft launches IP war on the netbook
  4. The $50 server platform to come
  5. Narrowing the Drake equation - if earth is common then ...
  6. Acer netbook aims for $150 (euro)
  7. Causes of the crash of '08 - how much fraud?
  8. Good news from China
  9. Obama's maternal grandfather
  10. Apple's G3 software product
  11. Snap Circuits – a toy and a company from another era
  12. Why models underestimate climate change
  13. Lessons from baseball – the data will be known
  14. Routine tech tips everyone should know.
  15. Steve Ballmer - comedian extraordinaire
  16. Immunizations - origins and necessity
  17. American right keeps FactCheck busy
  18. Bank stock prices are rational now - the nationalization effect
  19. Pakistan's objections to American drone attacks somewhat less credible now ...
  20. When will Google 2.0 sell a branded netbook?
  21. All stupidity is rooted in tax law
  22. Why are humans such wimpy primates?
  23. Reading and hand signals
  24. Super science 2009: The Economist at the AAAS meeting
  25. Sanity timidly emerging eight years after 9/11
  26. The netbook train rumbles onwards - heading below $200 this year
  27. Newsweek stakes future on ... George Will
  28. SciAm's quantum weirdness day: Nonlocality
  29. Jon Udell's 21st century radio: SpokenWord.org
  30. Staggering towards health care access ...
  31. The humbling of Economics
  32. Netbooks and the like: Nvidia's netphone project
  33. The Obama difference
  34. How will history see Cheney?
  35. Crooked judges and the powerful emergence of corruption
  36. I walk out of Slumdog Millionaire
  37. Emergence: how entropy and incentives create scams
  38. The case for kicking the can down the road
  39. How I'd save the New York Times
  40. The Economist – an update on the Great Recession
  41. Health Wars II: The lies of "Betsy" McCaughey
  42. Why we should hope CEOs quit - Tom Peters and more
  43. On books, history and the Kindle
  44. Google's ActiveSync license - interesting
  45. The case that Obama has been naive (via Krugman)
  46. Google is the net
  47. Why we may buy Kindle 2
  48. Imagine: How and why Microsoft should pervert the iPhone
  49. American corruption and Obama's challenge
  50. Krugman on the GOP's latest blow
  51. Dyer - 5 new articles
  52. AT&T sends more SMS Spam, locusts infest exec underwear
  53. The straw that broke my iPhone love
  54. White house blog blows a rabbit ears post
  55. A shameful secret shared
  56. Natural selection and executive compensation
  57. Death of a hero - Anastasia Baburova, a Russian journalist
  58. Unsurprising - the Party of Limbaugh doesn't want a stimulus package
  59. Daschle and my pen collection
  60. The Obama-era CDC reaches out on the Salmonella infested peanut butter problem
  61. Buy.com: Queen of the named spammers
  62. Oddities of an unusual name
  63. Dad, why do they look weird? High def Botox ...

January 2009

  1. Slashdot - why did the comments become worthless?
  2. For Emily - Google's "potentially harmful" flub
  3. Why we need a reformed GOP – protectionism in the Stimulus Package
  4. Human lifespan may not be easily extended
  5. GOP hysteria featured on … “Guantanamo Baywatch”
  6. Intel is in the OS business - with Netbooks
  7. Dear Canon Camera - are you listening now?
  8. The $125 Barbie B-Smart Netbook of 2011
  9. Vanguard fears money market losses, closes funds
  10. Merrill Lynch and bailouts to bonuses - It's bankruptcy time
  11. It's not 1982, it's not 1929. We need not fear fear, we need fear fearlessness.
  12. NYT tracks the Netbook revolution
  13. How Microsoft can win the Netbook wars
  14. How to tell Netflix is having money problems
  15. Palm Pre has search, iPhone doesn't
  16. My Nano qualified for a $25 class action settlement
  17. Design gone bad: form over function
  18. Managing the biggest global warming problem -- the American public
  19. Obama's Jan 24 radio address
  20. Google: The Quick, the Sick, and the Dead
  21. How will we know the economy has recovered?
  22. What is the secret of a happy life?
  23. All the Bush conspiracy theories - up for re-examination
  24. What the iPhone needs is Gorilla Haven’s DateBk6
  25. We now have Krugman’s human sacrifices
  26. Colin Powell – the path to reform?
  27. Obama – leading us out of the darkness and the torture chamber
  28. The new Whitehouse.gov -- now with a blog
  29. PC Chaos – the rise of the $150 Netbook
  30. Nonbelievers. Now that's change.
  31. iMacs are expensive
  32. Performance-based compensation and novel financial instruments: an explosive combination
  33. Obama falls for the Jena meme
  34. Obama knows what he’s doing – calming the right …
  35. Cheney is left to twist in the wind ...
  36. Why I ignore Amazon's "helpful" ratings ...
  37. Jumping the canyon of Great Depression II
  38. Annals of idiocy - AT&T spams customers about a TV show
  39. American torture - what's next
  40. Eight years - among the worst
  41. Interview from the dark side of software
  42. Unexpected social good - a post on roaring fans
  43. China 2009 is about to become Japan 1986
  44. Guru-level air travel tips
  45. Google responds to CO2 emission criticisms
  46. 2009 will be the year of machine translation
  47. Singularity watch: Google maps is now smarter than me
  48. Health care reform. Be humble. Be afraid of the accounting rules.
  49. Election turnout numbers: Highest in MN, GOP voters stayed home
  50. Ultrasound and the developing brain – lessons from manipulation of mouse neurons
  51. Palm Pre - unimpressed
  52. Apple's product cycles - handy for purchase planning
  53. NYT in the ICU - why?
  54. Kurzweil - not so good at prediction after all
  55. GD II: How large is the unused economic capacity?
  56. Dyer - the last articles of 2008
  57. Apple preps for a year of living dangerously?
  58. The less we use cash, the easier counterfeiting is
  59. The Onion loves the Mac
  60. Steve Jobs is an intensely private person
  61. WSJ Editorial pages fuming about Franken
  62. Lewis and Einhorn - repairing the financial world
  63. The NYT's summary of the the anthrax case
  64. Homebrew life forms - oh joy
  65. The horrible price of the War on Science - lessons from AIDS denialists
  66. The inanities of conservative pundits: volume XXXXXXXXIV
  67. Disruption: Laptop, batteries not included
  68. An essay on adoption and stories
  69. Apple's Netbook past - the Newton eMate
  70. Squeezed 2009: Netbooks, Android and Microsoft
  71. Exercise is brain food - slowly, a theory of why
  72. Sir Terry Pratchett

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December 2008

  1. A thorough review of DRM 2008 - Gizmodo Australia
  2. Price fixing investigations of SMS texting: also ask about instant messaging
  3. Amazon MP3 - how did they make such a mess of it?
  4. WaMu and the problem with index funds
  5. Life imitates art - the WaMu story
  6. Provigil enthusiam: I bet on accelerated aging
  7. Living well with less energy - lessons from tobacco
  8. Get ready to refinance your mortgage?
  9. Weather wimps of Minnesota
  10. Quick reminder: GDP and money turnover
  11. How Microsoft can use Google Blogger's missing backlinks
  12. Why Google loves Chrome: Netscape Constellation
  13. Excellent Cheney take down
  14. The evolutionary history of minds
  15. Are fluorescent bulbs really more energy efficient than incandescent bulbs?
  16. The Palm Nova – doomed from the start?
  17. Technological singularity - the trans-Pacific submarine cable
  18. Britannica Online's suicidal site redesign
  19. Krugman declares 2010 will be good. Markets rally.
  20. Why middle-aged habits form
  21. Shallow thought of the moment
  22. What can I do with Twitter, and is it CB Radio redux?
  23. National Academies of Science survey -- very short
  24. Marriage and civil unions - American insularity is astounding
  25. A classification of Ponzi schemes
  26. Oddities of popular posts
  27. WordPress's possibly related posts -- I want this from Blogger
  28. Understanding the Collapse of '08 - the role of the deadbeats
  29. Bring down the Barons - the disintermediation of Wall Street
  30. A world gone Madoff
  31. The return of Bush 1998?
  32. Annals of bizarre tripod ideas - the lampshade
  33. Speedcubers and the 6.6 billion person world
  34. Colonoscopy: As trustworthy as the markets?
  35. Greg Egan - strong drink for experienced readers
  36. Bankruptcy for GM and Chrysler - opponents need a better case
  37. Madoff and how the victims con masters like best
  38. Apple's quality problems continue ...
  39. The return of mad cow disease and ideas for writing about science
  40. The "No Rick Warren" facebook site
  41. Lots of layoff tips
  42. I, Cringely - now post-PBS
  43. The Max Planck Institute's very funny cover ..
  44. You know that trouble we're in?
  45. The Peak Oil answer to collapsing oil prices: queuing chaos
  46. The Madoff story and trust in the market
  47. How to make money in the market - wait for the chumps
  48. Global warming: have we lost already?
  49. Root causes: The elusiveness of low cost videoconferencing
  50. Do you help a customer hurt themselves? Spolsky speaks.
  51. Funny. Detroit's new ad
  52. Why the iPhone calendar may stay locked away
  53. Apple's MobileMe transition - worse than we realize
  54. Root causes: Why you can't sync your work and home calendars to your phone
  55. The 3Com (Palm) Audrey
  56. So how bad are the rest of the governors?
  57. Krugman's rules for research
  58. Mumbai's Muslim patriots carry signs in English?
  59. Obama's addiction is a problem
  60. Lower travel costs with VOIP, and is GrandCentral going to go live?
  61. The unreliability of email - Apple MobileMe and Spamcop.net
  62. Antidote to The Great Recession: A national small business generation service
  63. The Guardian's bad advertising moment
  64. 1 billion more IQ points
  65. How much wealth did the housing bust eliminate?
  66. Michael Lewis on the End of Wall Street. My God.
  67. Kiss your Google Notebook good-bye
  68. New frontiers in the evolution of life
  69. The GM bail out: fund it with a carbon tax, a break-up, and new fuel efficiency standards
  70. The power of blogs: Fords GM to drive to handout
  71. Too big to fail means too big to live
  72. Human pathogens attack their mosquito hosts
  73. Mumbai attacks - maybe not so expert
  74. Rule #1 for spotting a con ...
  75. Return of the WMDs - from Pakistan
  76. What shall we call the study of the emergent google meta-mind?

November 2008

  1. Emergence and the neo-Marxist meme: Google throws up an Amazon book
  2. Post-crash review: What if our inflation measurements were terribly wrong?
  3. Microsoft Live Mesh won't work
  4. The NYT's Baghdad blog and their awful blog software
  5. After the crash: The future of the publicly traded corporation
  6. Lessons from when the terrorists won: The Ku Klux Klan
  7. And now for something completely different
  8. Are we experiencing a complexity collapse in software and finance?
  9. Why price cuts won't sell a Mac to me
  10. Dapocalypse now. Grab your data and run. RUN.
  11. A quantum state eternally evolving in an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space
  12. Now is not the time for anti-materialist Solstice celebrations
  13. The best next generation?
  14. Closing Guantanamo - the stupidity
  15. Obama YouTube - Minnesota can expect some bridges
  16. The museum of American slavery and national emancipation day
  17. iPhone 2.2: Great phone. Great toy. Not for business.
  18. Melamine in Minnesota cookies - but where were they made?
  19. Most bizarre Obama effect: David Brooks is readable
  20. Obama inauguration - this would be silly in a book
  21. Maryland's fraudulent terrorism investigatons: a Bush/Cheney legacy
  22. Outsourcing AppStore review fraud - a 21st century crime
  23. The Fall of Citigroup means we don’t understand what’s happening …
  24. Broken window effect size – surprisingly large. Mow the lawn?
  25. Do you think Lexington is bitter?
  26. Wasting money: Ginkgo biloba joins the pile
  27. Old notes: Techniques for problem solving by creativity
  28. Dead Lively teaches lessons
  29. Gwynne Dyer: newly posted
  30. Monty Python. On YouTube.
  31. New Macs won't let some video play on projectors
  32. Google love: The resurrection of LIFE's ten million image archive
  33. Marked! Where did all our investments go?
  34. Future Shock and the Southern white male: Oil, GM, Nascar, Pallor, and Obama
  35. Escape from the Cloud - lessons from my surgeon days
  36. Hope on the way - Obama team to undo Bush regulatory attacks
  37. Republican Siamese Fighting Fish
  38. Obama’s Economic Advisory Board – includes Robert Reich!
  39. The true voting divide - Fundamentalists vs. the Secular and non-Christian
  40. Don't look at patents
  41. Obama and the white vote
  42. Meme watch: It's all the fault of the damned liberal media
  43. Salvaging world’s food and medication supply chains and resurrecting the FDA - thank you team Obama
  44. Why some who feared Obama’s election are calm today
  45. I'll take it anyway
  46. Google News, NYT Nov 4, 2008, Doonesebury
  47. Watching Obama
  48. Fabulous picture
  49. And now ...
  50. Thank you America
  51. NPR's iconic picture - election 2008
  52. I am sure McCain will win
  53. Manassas
  54. A concise summary of modern American politics
  55. Goldwater for Obama? Try this endorsement on any conservatives you know.
  56. The bright side of President Palin
  57. AOL users are VERY republican
  58. Prediction markets are irrational - the McCain penny stock example
  59. GOP slime - it must be noted
  60. The mission of the publicly held newspaper is ...
  61. Experts failing - how to get better guidance for economics, health care and everything
  62. Iceland is first to the Great Depression II
  63. McCain's strategy reaches for the disconnected
  64. The undecided explained
  65. McCain/Palin closing in Pennsylvania - what you can do
  66. The end of the personal check - what do we do now?

October 2008

  1. Nature itself endorses Obama, reason, and the enlightenment
  2. Google is doing OCR on PDF wrapped document scans
  3. Firewalls and separation of powers: banking, government, medicine and pharmacy
  4. Don't listen to Judith Warner. Worry.
  5. George Will?!
  6. The Economist's endorsement: What's surprising about it.
  7. Why Obama would be a great president – in two lines from Bill Clinton
  8. A lyrical essay on America and Obama
  9. Geeks for Obama: Tim O'Reilly's endorsement
  10. Microsoft lessons from Target Trutech and my fancy JBL
  11. Mainstream media wearies of calling McCain on his lying
  12. Was Babbage's computer truly forgotten?
  13. Apple blocks Opera Mini from the iPhone
  14. Great news: brain speed increases to age 39
  15. If you're told you can't vote -- call 866-OUR-VOTE
  16. The Singularity University
  17. Winning for the wrong reasons
  18. The thoughtful slime mold
  19. Jay Cooke State Park - MN
  20. Frank Rich: white guys aren't all bad
  21. When John McCain became George Wallace
  22. Wassup 2008 - wonderful campaign fodder
  23. Lessons from the faked Todd attack
  24. My revised iPhone demands: please buy a Google gPhone
  25. The New York Times is running out of money ...
  26. A moon of Saturn is only sort of real ...
  27. The NYT's giant Obama endorsement - highlights
  28. Arne Carlson endorses Obama
  29. In Our Time - Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems
  30. Michele Bachmann – Minnesota’s loon jumps the shark
  31. The Onion covers McCain's bus problem
  32. Crohn's disease: a bacterial component?
  33. Melamine is deeply embedded in China's food chain
  34. McCain and Obama basically tied
  35. Another stab at the Drake Equation – from the physics archives
  36. Google - please hire me to create a task list
  37. Message to Yahoo (and Cloud) customers: Get Out Now!
  38. Shortest lived links: Local movie listings
  39. Rick Santorum opens mouth, inserts pin
  40. Fareed Zakaria on the bright side of the Crash of ’08
  41. Nostalgia for the Soviets: they made us look good
  42. Note to the plumbing obsessed – do not confuse politics with reality
  43. David Brooks – Is Obama more like FDR, or more like Ronald Reagan?
  44. The Acorn Conspiracy – The GOP’s war on civilization continues
  45. Peak Oil? Hell, yes.
  46. The vote will be incredibly close. Do not stop donating, do not rest.
  47. Mossberg's gPhone review: Microsoft Mobile dead and keep your data free
  48. Understanding evil. Lessons from the Virginia GOP
  49. MacBook no firewire, MacBook Air no USB 3
  50. Why Twitter?
  51. Andy Martin: ally of the Right, FOX TV guest, anti-semite loon
  52. NYT Bear Market Comparison
  53. My Nobel prize in economics
  54. Justified American pride: The ADA
  55. The cost of havoc has been falling for a long time ...
  56. Palin's Pegler connection
  57. Christopher Buckley's Obama endorsement and some good news for a change
  58. WPA2 going the way of WEP?
  59. You get what you pay for. The tragedy of the incentive plan.
  60. Republicans for Obama
  61. Oh, we have a President?
  62. Halamka's Clothing List - for cold weather
  63. Dow 9,000 - forget retirement, what about college?
  64. The evidence that adult IQ is unrelated to postnatal environment
  65. Fox News jumps the shark?
  66. Obama throws down: Say it to My Face
  67. NPR and the annals of false equivalency
  68. Norm Coleman's pants and the angry bloggers
  69. We must resist hope. Now is not a time to rest.
  70. The Sun rises in the East and Data Mining doesn't work
  71. Terry Pratchett and Google Book Library with local library link
  72. The spittle factor: publicizing Palin's supporters
  73. The problem with town hall debates: "uncommitted"?
  74. The New Yorker: Obama for reasons of character
  75. Good news: McCain/Palin play the Ayers Card
  76. Rolling Stone on John McCain
  77. Google needs customer service
  78. Sarah Peron Cheney. America could do it.
  79. Palin "Eva Peron" - 78,000 hits
  80. Damn. The good guys blinked.
  81. The 21st century has been educational
  82. Paulson and the Net Capital Rule set up the crash of '08
  83. Olmert exits with a surprise
  84. Wheeee.
  85. Changing Apple -- the feedback page
  86. Paul Newman - the most generous individual of the 20th century
  87. Fascinating explanations of how the bank crisis unfolded
  88. Kristof's happy thought of the day
  89. The key part of the bailout bill
  90. The best of Sarah Palin -- all the clips, assembled
  91. Bipartisanship at last …
  92. Hit and run homicide in Minneapolis and near future prevention

September 2008

  1. The real estate crash was expected - but who anticipated the bank crash?
  2. Powerline humiliated by Krugman
  3. Idiots guide to the balance sheet - for finance company
  4. Delightful Jon Swift column on GD II
  5. Best of the bad GOP news: David Brooks turns on the loser wing of the GOP
  6. The silver lining of financial collapse: my industry looks better
  7. The GOP killed the bailout bill
  8. Melamine sickened infants: 53,000 and counting
  9. Miracle statins: I'm such a cynic
  10. OS X Leopard's windows server icon jest
  11. GOP 2008: Monty Python does the Fall of Rome
  12. What McCain really did during his "rescue" mission
  13. The GOP's game of chicken - let's crash
  14. NYT - informative review of AIG's fall
  15. Walmart DRM: and consumers still don't care?
  16. Apple puts pressure on China's telecoms
  17. The Right blames Wall Street's collapse on ... Clinton. Bill Clinton.
  18. McCain declares, yes, we tortured
  19. Why journalists should vote McCain
  20. Non-ethnic - a sign Obama did well on debate one
  21. Do I make more sense in Greek?
  22. Stanislav Petrov saves the world?
  23. Systemic failure and financial firewalls
  24. Keillor on human error, finance, and truth
  25. Train wreck McCain
  26. DeLong: Bank finance 101 - in Salon
  27. So say we all
  28. The November Conspiracy – or just an accident waiting to happen?
  29. In praise of David Hume
  30. Sounds familiar
  31. Fox attacks Sarah Palin the Black Democrat
  32. Where Wall Street meets Main street
  33. Will McCain withdraw?
  34. The Bush problem: how to rescue without ownership
  35. Dark flow - false alarm, right?
  36. 700 billion fluffy nothings
  37. Patents gone bad: slowing science
  38. McCain Flintstone -- the Dinosaurs by Kathy Writes
  39. The Economist is irrelevant. Sad.
  40. Why I don't read letters to the editor ...
  41. Gramm fear - explaining it to Republicans
  42. Ministry of Treasury Paulson dials 419
  43. Rescuing Wall Street - No equity stake, no deal
  44. Why aren't other mammals furless?
  45. Inside politics - why McCain "wrote" that banking was a good guide for health care reform
  46. Turning Japanese: Krugman on the humbling of the Fed
  47. Tom Tomorrow's 1998 Wall Street expose
  48. Will the NYT break the "balance" rule? Kristof's late awakening.
  49. Cheney's alternate succession plan
  50. New Orleans: plus ca change
  51. The Bushies draw the torture line ...
  52. OJ Simpson and John McCain: Great competitors, great liars
  53. Minnesota 5th most bike friendly state
  54. Leahy on anthrax: the FBI is wrong
  55. Apocalypse now: my why
  56. Palin email hacked through password reset - educating America
  57. Apocalypse now? Putnam investors
  58. Task management: a feature request
  59. Money market funds don't guarantee a $1 a share
  60. Money managers, the myth of the free market and fluid identity
  61. The SIPC is not the FDIC, but ...
  62. So you think you can ride a bike?
  63. Another slap for we hysterical democrats
  64. Chinese recall of melamine contaminated infant formula
  65. McCain's effective lies and the post-fact society
  66. Worse than Bush
  67. FactCheck.org: all the lies exposed -- even ours
  68. Information we shouldn't fear: the McCain/Palin science curricula
  69. Gail Collins reality check - Wolves for Obama
  70. The Economist predicts an early Singularity through neuroengineering
  71. A good day for the US Coast Guard – and for some fishermen
  72. Explaining twitter, facebook and myspace to gomer geeks
  73. BBC's impossibly slow "most popular now" site
  74. Fannie and Freddie: where should they go now?
  75. Aaronson critiques Kurzweil and the 2045 Singularity
  76. Exercise cannot control obesity gene associated weight gain
  77. iTunes 8: what really matters is the household library – and its DRM
  78. Turning Japanese
  79. The interesting Fannie and Freddie question
  80. Dark Crossings: Closing the Strauss gap with the GOP
  81. Coming soon: Palin's pastor problems
  82. The rich are not like you and I - the McCain's covert adoption
  83. Daily Show savages the GOP flip-floppers
  84. Curse of the cookie
  85. Singularity alert: Picasa web album face tagging
  86. McCain on science: you knew it would be bad
  87. Sad news for us Dems
  88. Google mocks the idiotic security question
  89. Why Google Chrome?

August 2008

  1. JavaScript slide show app from 1997 still works
  2. iPhone push pulled: was it the revenue hit?
  3. Happy day: Palin
  4. Standards for chargers: Thank you China
  5. Leahy on McCain's dementia
  6. An artificial cat-level brain within 10 years?
  7. My first Wikipedia page: Data Lock
  8. Cosmology and Complexity - almost understandable
  9. Microsoft’s love for Firefox is limited – the Windows Live Writer plug-in example
  10. Yes, you do want a mongrel
  11. Biological warfare attracts some troubled scientists
  12. Reason without science - the music of the spheres
  13. Microsoft's auto-lobotomy
  14. iPhone remote multiple libraries - what it means
  15. My brutal Palm to iPhone migration - lessons from refactoring a geek workflow
  16. Splog war friendly fire - Google whacks me for the sins of others
  17. David Brooks - caught again
  18. Spooky action 10,000 times FTL. Yawn.
  19. Slate reviews swim goggles
  20. Obama as the Antichrist - now from McCain
  21. Need some reading? Hugo nominees online
  22. My Peak Oil Call
  23. People didn't used to laugh when we said these things
  24. The value of GrandCentral
  25. Net security, the end of the password, and human evolution
  26. An unusual view into Apple, and why MobileMe may be fixed before January
  27. Software reviews and the App Store: We do have a problem
  28. Progress is non-linear: Palm vs. iPhone Address Book
  29. The Domain Registry Support fax scan is still in business
  30. Never talk to the police ...
  31. Paris Hilton responds to the wrinkly white guy
  32. Ho hum. Another 40 million credit cards stolen
  33. The Fermi Paradox in science fiction: a review
  34. Why the undead Palm is great news for my Palm to iPhone conversion
  35. When McCain sold his soul
  36. Bringing laptops across the border
  37. Strange loops: Google custom and customized search - and a memory blog
  38. Alzheimer's disease: 70 genes?!
  39. Consumer safety bill: whiplash

July 2008

  1. More evidence that schizophrenia is an evolutionary disorders
  2. Sometimes a criminal can do you a favor
  3. Challenges to medicine and science – medication invention hits a brick wall
  4. Amazon Payments and Simple Pay - will be big (and a bug)
  5. Odd note in a story on a national artificial joint registry
  6. Three Shtetl-Optimized posts for livening the mind
  7. The meaningless beta: Apple and Google
  8. McCain embraces Rove. Of course.
  9. FailMe: a classy approach to getting even
  10. The problem with my 'brain and mind' tag - the mind is not in the brain
  11. Why Apple can't do the Cloud: secrecy is the enemy
  12. Apple begins the MobileMe recovery
  13. Software-as-service and DRM mean you don't own. You rent. Everything. Another lesson from Yahoo.
  14. Strangely met in night: a blog I’ll never read …
  15. Bayes theorem and the anthropic principle
  16. Apple fails the crisis test as MobileMess blows up
  17. Right wing hack hit and run - caught by a bicyclist
  18. Data Lock: 661 MORE 3.1 documents keep me in 10.4
  19. Our communication and computing costs are comparable to our gasoline costs
  20. Take a vacation John Hawks. Please. You’re hurting my brain.
  21. Google maps adds inline skating directions ...
  22. The ideal of medicine - realized in mice
  23. A great day for justice
  24. My interview with Jon Udell
  25. How good are the FBI's genetic test matches?
  26. Post Mortem for a failed Silicon Valley startup
  27. WALL-E's Starship Axiom is from Northern Minnesota
  28. Antidotes to Data Lock: DataPortability.org and Document Freedom Day
  29. How did the "secret question" get out of control?
  30. Apple - with great power comes ...
  31. The Economist's in depth review of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
  32. The pain is all in your head
  33. Power boosted bikes for low cost, low carbon, commuting
  34. The 2004 national cholesterol guidelines have no clothes
  35. Visualizing a complex connected network: lessons from E. Coli gene transfer
  36. Kafka's FBI Watch List over 1 million, grows 20,000 a month ...
  37. The core of Al Gore's energy proposal is a carbon tax
  38. The MobileMe iPhone - Microsoft, I miss you!
  39. Jon Udell's Interviews with Innovators: Evernote as Memex
  40. We suck. Lessons from the American Human Development Report
  41. Please stop using videos for documentation. Please.
  42. The view from 2000 - really, we can stop now
  43. Full text search and digital prostheses: new email, new mind
  44. A critique of Congress - and a defense
  45. Schneier: The Chinese Hacker Explained
  46. Google's development handicap: worldwide support
  47. The rights of non-man
  48. Franklin quote: new to me
  49. Unintended consequences: medication co-pays and combination therapy
  50. Delaying the inevitable onset of Alzheimer's: exercise is the new best hope
  51. iPhone 2.0 development: looks like a death march ...
  52. Britain leads on the post-oil economy - and positive feedback loop on corn prices
  53. In the Twins, the cops are bike savvy
  54. Investments: 1999 to 2008. Not quite what we expected.
  55. Businesses can advertise on Google Maps (hint: iPhone, GPS)
  56. iPhone 2.0 not really ready for release?
  57. The law of unintended consequences: iTunes, the Nordic Track, NBC, and Babylon 5
  58. Apple after Jobs: give reliability a chance
  59. Google is done talking with librarians
  60. Dapocalypse Now
  61. Software as service: watch out for Data Lock
  62. Obama is the anti-Christ. Of course.
  63. Medical treatment of the super-rich - a psychiatrist's view
  64. Electing Obama: send money, stop listening
  65. Even Apple’s discussion servers are crushed …
  66. The descent of the PDA: Newton, Palm, Blackberry and iPhone
  67. Fake Steve Jobs ... time to move on
  68. There’s always another level - Korean Freestyle Slalom Inline Skating
  69. Unintended consequences of the iPhone’s DRM requirements – Apple shoots the Mac
  70. I live in a fabulous city ...
  71. The unexpected influence of OS X - an explanation
  72. Another wonder drug bites the dust - try to remember this.
  73. The downside of building IE into Windows
  74. The endowment effect, and other defects of human reason
  75. Distributed processing of the universe - Hanny's voorwerp
  76. When you don't know why someone does something ...
  77. If Obama is President ...
  78. The three meanings of peak light sweet oil and praise for rational speculation
  79. CH's guide to the ultimate office chair.
  80. The acceleration of corporate senescence: Microsoft and Google
  81. Carr's annoying Atlantic article on Google's mind perversion
  82. What my blogs are for: memory management and the Google-Gordon geek-mind fusion
  83. NYT makes Balmer's day - Google's mortal nature
  84. Cringely on fraud and the net - vs. Charles Stross and the Golden Age of Fraud
  85. On the Internet everyone knows you're a dog
  86. Rove and the Swifties are back -- and the media is still their toy
  87. Cringely on Bill Gates’ retirement
  88. How to construct an emergency custom back support car seat for under $20
  89. The mysterious bicycle path of Rochelle Illinois
  90. My iPhone purchase strategy looks like a really bad bet ...
  91. Missing iPhone cut, copy, paste lost in patent wars?
  92. Silence a dripping hotel faucet with a towel

June 2008

  1. If not for the anthrax attacks, would the US have invaded Iraq?
  2. Reasons to feel better about the iPhone: secure wipe
  3. ED treatment of acute back pain - what's missing and why
  4. Philip Carter summarizes the Senate torture report: affirms use of Stalin's regimen
  5. Global warming: what you can do ...
  6. The Last Lesson
  7. Journalists like politicians that make them feel smart
  8. Minneapolis is 9th on the top 10 bike city list. St Paul is ?
  9. More on the US torture program, and preparing for the war crimes trials
  10. Wiretaps are legal now
  11. Why blogs rule - Krugman on oil speculation
  12. An astounding series on mental health disorders
  13. PETCO goes down - pet food seizure
  14. The Mundaneum
  15. Mega drive 2008: the newest innovations
  16. That which does not kill me is not torture
  17. Understanding net neutrality – Imagine Amazon owned the post office
  18. Private farming now, private manufacturing when?
  19. Two years to crack Khan's hard drive encryption and reveal more bad nuke news
  20. ISP access control: great for VPN providers
  21. Why we have constitutions - a reminder
  22. The new signs: Generation X, Y and B
  23. The GOP thanks heaven for Al Franken
  24. Beating email - it's doable. Here's how.
  25. Google's minimal progress towards sharing files - now PDF
  26. Restoring food safety in America - thank you South Korea!
  27. The terrible fragility of American freedom - McCain would destroy this
  28. The end of Moore’s Law and the future of Dell
  29. The Empire Strikes Back: complexity, mobile phone plans, and Apple defeated
  30. Why Snow Leopard? It’s the cores.
  31. About the solar heating meme
  32. Quantum Computing: the lecture notes
  33. iPhone prices go up by $360 over two years
  34. The end of Apple’s surprises
  35. Gordon’s WWDC prediction
  36. Minnesota naturopaths can order MRIs
  37. Joy of the global web -- what's 101 mean?
  38. Modern management literature and the Hammer of Thor
  39. Another week, another bridge closing
  40. Why did Hillary Clinton lose?
  41. A shift in diabetes control
  42. UK university lecture podcasts – tears to my eyes
  43. Amazon is down?!
  44. Gourmet magazine: world's most successful spammer?
  45. Google transit - slowly growing, now to add bike routes
  46. Britannica finally goes social
  47. Evolution in action - captured and dissected
  48. Aging is a very old strategy -- proteins in the cap
  49. Buying Obama bumper stickers
  50. The melamine is still coming from China ...
  51. Anti-science and global warming - the GOP's corporate rule
  52. Bush III
  53. Lessons from great software - FrameMaker
  54. Why talk about The Singularity?
  55. IEEE - The Singularity Issue
  56. Auctorial

May 2008

  1. The paradoxical security of Windows 2000
  2. Gmail's biggest missing feature - and it's a whopper.
  3. Google's infinite storage solution
  4. My iPod has run out of room, so the iPhone is more appealing
  5. Family Medicine Board Exam 2008 - description, study strategy, results
  6. Changes - a 1/2 GB patch
  7. How the medical web has changed - a six year retrospective
  8. MD Consult: An illustrative story?
  9. Advice to Google: Imitate the RIGHT parts of Sharepoint
  10. Netsurfer 1995 - be humble
  11. Richard Feynman -- lessons from Connection Machine
  12. European nuclear plants and Google's data centers
  13. Spam comments are getting very clever
  14. Golf tee stripped hole fixer
  15. SARS - five years later
  16. In Our Time threatens to go mainstream
  17. Google engineers should sign their applications
  18. So that's why the models are looking better ...
  19. Lessons from Microsoft SharePoint
  20. Why is corporate IT so bad? Because CEOs don't like IT.
  21. Finding blogs - the cult of In Our Time
  22. IOT does The Black Death
  23. Irena Sendler: Read this.
  24. AT&T - Saint Paul is NOT a part of Minneapolis!
  25. General Sanchez: Abu Ghraib was made in the White House
  26. You're not really forgetful. You're just more aware ...
  27. Wretched success: How IE 4 killed Microsoft's control of the net
  28. Fermi's paradox is in the air
  29. Whatever happened to quantum dot solar energy technology?
  30. DeLong: Bill Moyer interviews Philippe Sands
  31. Quicken, Palm, AOL - once they were good
  32. Scary thought - I actually understand this Udell post
  33. Ada Lovelace's paralysis, quirks of In Our Time, and the odd beliefs of UK historians
  34. An end to foolish pleas for more US engineers and scientists?
  35. Best coverage of platypus genome
  36. Mildred Loving and American history
  37. Evolving Skynet by Gwap (Nick Carr)
  38. Dyer: Peak Oil means Peak Sweet Crude only
  39. Dyer - new articles (now via Page2RSS)
  40. We've come a long way -- fraud 2008
  41. Peak Oil now? Does Krugman really think so?
  42. Fake Steve Jobs: Why Dell will not bounce back
  43. Microsoft's Guardian Angel
  44. What if we could see the diversity of minds?
  45. Krugman jumps the shark for Hillary?
  46. Morford on wealth and income - the $2 billion dollar home
  47. BBC's In Our Time - still available - for now!
  48. The strange ways corporations die: Sprint's Instinct campaign
  49. World in transition: the unicode milestone
  50. Guantanamo
  51. McCain's hole in Sweden
  52. Why did Apple open the iPhone to developers?
  53. Why Joel Spolsky hates Microsoft Mesh -- and what this says about the peculiar course of software outsourcing
  54. Detecting weapons grade uranium: give up
  55. Sometimes a 2nd chance works - convicts in the army

April 2008

  1. The end of television - now it's official
  2. How to save the New York Times - TimesCash voting
  3. How are TV generals like tobacco industry executives?
  4. Edwards and Fallows agree - the press is bad. Why?
  5. The surprising cost of fly intelligence ...
  6. The way politics works: a Gail Collins reminder
  7. Neuburg: 15 years of information wrangling
  8. Incenting execs: they're very good at gaming the system
  9. Damn, but Hoover was an evil man
  10. Who's paying for the "Global Climate Scam" billboards?
  11. Insanely bad decisions - the Dilbert example - and a wise correction
  12. Lesson: Your data will be public
  13. Network biology and the holographic resilience of biological function - lessons from E. coli
  14. Marvelous Gail Collins editorial on Bush's greenhouse 2025 goal
  15. The Economist on the food crisis
  16. The infamous fake-Springsteen Vista video: we think it's kind of sweet
  17. Do the sheep dogs think they are sheep?
  18. Proud to be a geek: stackoverlow.com
  19. Kateva.org may be blocked by some corporate filters
  20. Dyer - 4 new articles
  21. Gordon's Notes: move appears to have succeeded
  22. Gordon's Notes to move to notes.kateva.org: Take II
  23. Scientific American on compact fluorescent light bulbs - toxic waste or not?
  24. Condolezza Rice and Torture
  25. The Consumerist
  26. Lester Brown, Julian Simon, the UNFPA, Malthus, and, again, the Food
  27. Best explanation of the Monty Hall problem (Bayes)
  28. The case of the curious silence: Counterfeit Heparin killed 62+
  29. Aaronson's MIT lectures on theoretical computer science - open to all
  30. Marx and Engels on the railway bubble of 1845
  31. Gordon's Notes move failed
  32. Gordon's Notes to move to notes.kateva.org: In theory, no changes required
  33. Primary care access problems in Massachusetts -- and the strange reporting thereof
  34. AT&T vs. Sprint: one is better
  35. Bush war crimes trial: exhibit A
  36. Over the hill
  37. How we perceive - a review of the art
  38. CBS 60 Minutes expose: In a just world, Bush would face a war crimes tribunal.
  39. Project Virgle: See it while it's up
  40. Google Gmail and Calendar flailing

March 2008

  1. Gwynne Dyer: four new essays
  2. Bush's brilliant ploy, and why we should abolish the presidential pardon
  3. Google: creating the missing ecosystems
  4. What is schizophrenia? Not what we thought.
  5. Juggling identities: Udell, Cameron and Identity Woman
  6. The American corporation and the centrally planned economies of the soviet empire
  7. XPonlinescanner: malware attack or very nasty ad? Interesting, either way.
  8. Whimsley: a new addition to my bloglist
  9. The Market as a satisficing mechanism for finding local minima - where did I get this from?
  10. Don't buy your iPhone this week -- iPhone order backlog
  11. What if you lived in a world where nothing worked?
  12. Head still exploding: The AT&T mobile phone rebate card scam
  13. Sad days for the American Academy of Family Physicians: AFP and FPM behind the paywall
  14. The emperor's clothes, Microsoft Word, and the folly of crowds
  15. Google goes to warp speed, oddly fond of me
  16. What oil price will radically change American life?
  17. Hacking encryption keys: quantum and otherwise
  18. XPonlinescanner.com: Malware infection on Star Tribune and other news sites
  19. Deliberations of the Zorgonian Commission on the Terran Problem
  20. Everything you need to understand about the neo-banking crisis of 2008
  21. Mall of America security expells PZ Myers from creationist movie
  22. Economist obituary: the last French foot solder of World War I
  23. Phorm - another eye in the sky
  24. Mea culpas of rationalists who supported the conquest of Iraq
  25. The HIV genocide delusion
  26. Fake graduation rates and other predictable outcomes of no child left behind
  27. Toxic heparin: fraud is looking likely
  28. Memories of how badly Bush began ...
  29. The Twin Cities is a great place to live: bike trail plans
  30. Obama race speech - abbreviated version
  31. Phishing traps via blog post comments - a newer variant
  32. DNA samples of poorly behaved children
  33. The Economist: a semblance of clever
  34. Ever wonder where childhood memories go?
  35. Pet food poison and pithed America
  36. How old is this retiring pastor?
  37. It's official. We live in a surveillance state.
  38. Sheldon Brown - one of the original riders of the web
  39. No more spouses at the press conference
  40. Mass disability and Great Depression 2.0
  41. NBC's "To Catch a Predator". Please tell me this is satire ...
  42. Whatever happened to medical progress?
  43. Support Tom Harkin's Complete Streets legislation - write your senator
  44. Oil price speculation: is it rational investment or a bubble?
  45. Shocking news: incenting physicians towards one goal has negative impacts on other goals
  46. How Homeland Security sets its priorities
  47. iPhone developer response to Apple's 30% cut on iApp sales, and why I still won't order one.
  48. State of the universe: flat, 72% vacuum energy
  49. Unintended consequences and accidental death from polypharmacy
  50. Brad DeLong: Principles for enlightenment 2.0
  51. Stories forgotten: Putin and the 1999 apartment bombings
  52. A bad day for Gastroenterologists
  53. iPhone announcement - Fake Steve Jobs says it all
  54. iPhone surprise: Microsoft is on board. Why?
  55. Physicians to go iPhone crazy
  56. Toxic heparin was fraud, not accident
  57. The Democratic primaries vs. the general election: an enlightening comparison
  58. The iPhone software advantage: strong Digital Rights Management
  59. Wanted: an identity management service. Business model included.
  60. Steve Jobs: brilliant, bizarre, not nice
  61. John McCain is against Reason
  62. Signs of the singularity: science fiction gives up
  63. The stunning collapse of television news
  64. Heparin production: scraping pig intestines

February 2008

  1. What lies ahead for Obama
  2. Brad DeLong Lecture slide: The Invention Transition
  3. Tulshiram and Baba Amte
  4. WorldWide Telescope: A spring gift from Microsoft Research
  5. Billionaire wanted - how to manage a broken brain in the stone age
  6. Palm OS Obit #245 - and a contrary opinion on the death of the mobile platform
  7. Using a webcam to help with audio-only phone conferences
  8. The meaning of median compensation with a high school education
  9. Sometimes medical progress is exceedingly slow
  10. Dark energy is not a force, and another take on fermions and bosons
  11. Challenges of software as service: Spolsky's version
  12. Even Nader's sympathizers are appalled
  13. Can someone hand the BBC's Kevin Connelly a clue?
  14. Legislative review: Obama and Clinton
  15. Hey, we still have rabbit ears!
  16. The power of video - the beef recall
  17. I destroyed Facebook
  18. Word file formats: the Nisus achievement and a gentle wish for .DOC
  19. The trial of Khalid Mohammed - America's next opportunity for shame
  20. Catastrophic extinction in the Anthropocene: now for the sharks
  21. Science and the alternative
  22. Stealing ideas - a quote I like
  23. The Microsoft Word anti-fan club
  24. We really need to panic more - FDA inspection of Chinese drug suppliers
  25. The Fibonnaci sequence, In Our Time and why digital cameras should adopt the 35 mm aspect ratio forever
  26. My favorite OS X headline
  27. eBay admits it has a problem
  28. Gwynne Dyer: Kosovo, Climate Change, US Defense budget
  29. Manipulating the hairless ape: applied mimicry
  30. Big iPhone SDK slip?
  31. More money, fewer children. The paradox gets another look.
  32. Zillow.com: first, have a beverage at hand
  33. The GOP isn't the torture party any more
  34. The disposable decade: and the economics of the extended warranty: iMac, phones, camera and homes?
  35. Now I get it. The McCain reaction.
  36. Migraine: how often do meds work?
  37. Cringely provides a sane justification for Microsoft's acquisition of Yahoo!
  38. Strict control of type II diabetes increased mortality in one (big) study
  39. Omega-3 fatty acid flop - in transgenic mice
  40. Lessons for MN DFL caucus attendees
  41. Strategic packaging- or just supplier contracts? The 16GB iPhone.
  42. The BlackBerry is jam
  43. Should I vote for Clinton or Obama?
  44. What happens when an ATM dispenses free money?
  45. Top Al Qaeda leader killed - best commentary
  46. Features that sell products are often useless
  47. Another dumb article on exercise and aging
  48. Michael Vick's dog Georgia - a description
  49. Mahoo! - hope Google feels threatened
  50. Charlie Stross profiles today's UK teens. Slashing?
  51. Obama and I are in 76% agreement.

January 2008

  1. Wanted: examples of publicly traded companies with accounting solutions that support internal collaborative projects
  2. Microsoft's FeedSync: what the heck is it and why would anyone care about a trivial problem like data synchronization?
  3. Dyer: six articles for 2008
  4. Games the media play: the race card
  5. Florida's 90% better future means Edwards can be kingmaker
  6. Who mourns for the loss of Apple's unique file identifiers ...
  7. To sleep, perchance to run lossy compression algorithms
  8. Audio books for children: the list that's hard to find
  9. Future shock: the Nexus 7000
  10. Minnesota's caucus and Florida's 71 to 22 percent preference: Clinton wins.
  11. Boltzmann's brain hits the big Times
  12. Undecided voter? You're in bad company
  13. John's head explodes: AT&T rebate paid with an AT&T debit card
  14. The BlackBerry Pearl is Android 0.8
  15. What planet am I on again?
  16. Dog food blogging: CBC news story
  17. Please stop the Vitamin E studies
  18. The iTunes Store fails to impress
  19. How humane can humans be? Primate lesssons.
  20. The S&P is down 15%, back to Jan 2007
  21. The Atlantic and archives to be ad supported
  22. Gordon's 4 laws of acquisition
  23. The puzzle of cetacean brains
  24. Canada wimps out
  25. Huckabee's constitutional amendment
  26. Getting comfortable with harvesting your clone
  27. The DNA content of locker room key pins
  28. How the music industry can regain control
  29. What is the IQ of the American commentariat?
  30. The Algebraist and the religion of the eternal simulation
  31. Use the name your enemies would give one of their causes
  32. MacFlop
  33. Duct tape and warts: how the HECK does it work?
  34. Can't check-in online? Try finding a codeshare.
  35. Stross dissects cell phone schemes: lessons in pricing strategy
  36. John's MacWorld predictions
  37. The Motorola ROKR and the Apple iPhone
  38. China: the new driver with the 1.4 trillion dollar car
  39. Bike boxes: if they work, we want them
  40. The two edged sword cuts Maureen Dowd
  41. Hilary is the new Al. I might become a fan ...
  42. Irving Kristol and the NYT OpEd conspiracy
  43. Mormonism in the GOP - a NYT Magazine discussion
  44. Emergence in action: Plaxo is an ex-canary
  45. Another best analysis of the Iowa outcomes
  46. Fashionable light bulbs and that darned mercury
  47. Andy Olmsted's post-mortem good-bye.
  48. Treating explosive aggression in special needs adults - a huge placebo effect
  49. Summary of Iowa 2008
  50. Human History
  51. Benazir Bhutto - The Economist's obituary
  52. My $80 HDTV conversion coupons are on the way
  53. Best prediction essay ever
  54. Mathematical universe: the softly spoken premise of string theory
  55. Outsourcing surrogacy - and what comes next
  56. Liberal and progressive - defined
  57. Physics Feast: Sean Carroll's favorite posts
  58. After the crash of '07: what 2008 may bring

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