- For Scots, a Scourge Unleashed by a Bottle (alcoholism)
- Microsoft’s Creative Destruction. “Microsoft’s huge profits — $6.7 billion for the past quarter — come almost entirely from Windows and Office programs first developed decades ago… While the company has had a truly amazing past and an enviably prosperous present, unless it regains its creative spark, it’s an open question whether it has much of a future.”
- The Chess Master and the Computer
- Hottest decade on record. Nice graph. From NOAA’s annual State of the Climate report.
- Coaches Still Vexed by Going for Two. Game theory.
- Two wacky ballot measure proposals: One is to change the Seal of the State of Washington – currently an image of George Washington – to “a tapeworm dressed in a three pieced suit attached to the taxpayer’s rectum.” And Denver voters will be asked to create UFO commission.
- Budget Forecasts, Compared With Reality
- Countries Submit Emission Goals post-Copenhagen.
- Bill Watterson, creator of beloved ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ comic strip looks back with no regrets.
- Climateprogress disses the Cantwell-Collins cap-and-dividend bill. I have some input in the comments section.
- Your Photos, Off the Shelf at Last
- Suicide or Murder at Guantánamo? Jack Shafer doesn’t buy the murder angle.
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