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Brad DeLong is an economist I started reading when the NY Times put Krugman behind a paywall. He is erudite and a card-carrying member of the realist school of economics, you know that whacky version where you have to pay for the things you spend money on.
Anyway, he frames the debate well; you should read […]

Vika and I just got done watching Equilibrium, the movie that should’ve had the mindshare that the matrix stole.
I particularly appreciated the role of the protagonist; he was an inside man, raised and honed to be a tool of the machine. Most importantly, he commits atrocities on his way to understanding, and in the end all […]

It is available in web plugin form and universal binary ; for mac only, at the moment.
Ok, this one has some different rules:

Clicking on lines of 3 or more beads causes them to be destroyed; these count towards your “count”.
You can only match beads in a horizontal or diagonal line. It counts from whichever bead you click […]

Ok, so that’s not really the important part… My BFF Sean Stevens was paid $300 by a sub-contractor of Turner to magnetically attach LED pictures of a cartoon character at specific locations in Boston to promote a new movie. Two weeks after he first started hanging them, he was arrested for doing so because the […]

The Generic Republic Universal Protocol (GRUP) is a set of behaviours that allow an individual to participate in the Naught Distributed Republic (0DR). It requires the participation in a number of communication media in order to gain voting capital. Voting capital may be ‘spent’ in Request For Action auctions. An RFA auction is like an […]