I began this current journal, XSML, with the intent of reducing my own notes to extra small, XML-friendly updates. Increasingly, I have been drawn by the allure...
Here’s a headline you don’t want to miss, from January 18, 2007: MIDDLE EAST: Population growth poses huge challenge for Middle East and North Afric...
If your product is becoming a commodity, don’t try to inflate its value by restricting supply. Create a better product and set new terms. If you want to a...
While reading up on a ridiculously high-performance kitchen appliance, I found this quote from a manufacturer: Between the year 2000 – 2001 the market con...
Reggie Middleton’s diagram for his post, Goldman Creates a Facebook Hedge Fund for HNW Clients Historically Ripped Off By Such Vehicles, Spits In Face Of ...
I know my fellow consumers. We are a conspicuous competitive lot. Look at what I got. Also, free shit. Everyone loves free shit. I was just trying to remember w...
David Rothkopf, astute and witty as ever, discussing the various political centers, from the expedient to the principled center, from the independent center to ...
The Financial Times: Amex chief calls for jobs taskforce By Francesco Guerrera and Suzanne Kapner in New York Published: December 5 2010 22:00 Ken Chenault, the...
Fascinating, brief and polemical history of public media – now mass media – in the U.S., from the postal service to radio then television, etc.
Meet Margaret Winkler, aka MJ Winkler. Since this was [a] male-dominated industry, Peggy reasoned that she should avoid any indication of a female connection to...
Yet again, a fascinating story on essay mills. This one challenges – albeit by anecdata – an assumption I’d made earlier about who is paying for the...
Bruce Schneier: Fundamentally, [essay plagiarism] is a problem of misplaced economic incentives. As long as the academic credential is worth more to a student t...
Matthew Yglesias: Many people purport to be saddened by the fact that so many people live in countries that are poor, tyrannical, or otherwise malgoverned. And ...
The artist Ai Weiwei at Tate Modern: It turns out that each seed is in fact a unique porcelain replica, hand-painted in Jingdezhen and fired at 1,300 degrees. S...
You know you’re in the future when you read this in Businessweek: “They have sensors and they’re supposed to stop if they see you,” says...
As much smack as I talk about the business community, I prefer to side with organizations that invest in science rather than faith. Here are the headlines from ...
When you’re poor and you owe money, you might find yourself in this situation: On another call, Jimmy spoke with a man whose original debt was two hundred...
Yesterday I saw a group of working class Jose’s standing around a taco truck at midday eating lunch. There were four or five pickup trucks parked near the...
You know your higher education system is fucked when kids are spending $200 per plagiarized essay. Clearly, any kid spending that kind of money on an essay shou...
I’ve seen two electronic ads today I was happy to “reject”: one for a conspiracy video and the other for Meg Whitman. In the case of the forme...