December 2008
61 posts
I liked #48 the best. Probably because I was... →
should probably stop sending clients to... →
The year in robots! →
Google Search Trends for "quitting smoking" →
Hilarious. Seems to me that you would expect a content spike around new years, too.
Everything I Know About Business I Learned From... →
Dave Barry's Year in Review →
PETA Offers $1 Million Reward to First to Make In... →
WatchJohn Hodgman’s brief digression
The year in spaceflight →
Top 10 Weirdest Things in Space →
robots to hunt down humans in packs and other top... →
If God Took Away Sex →
The Last Christmas of the American Golden Age →
'Sex chip' being developed by scientists →
Washington Is Killing Silicon Valley →
Can Science Save Economics? →
Where'd the Bailout Money Go? Shhhh, It's a Secret... →
How kangaroo burgers could save the planet →
Genetics: Top 10 articles from 2008 →
Charting Out NBA Archetypes →
Cocaine Turns Honeybees Into Liars →
Cousin Marriage OK by Science →
Hilarious.
Ground Zero: Google Maps and Nuclear Weapons →
On a non-Christmas note…
Know Your Cabinet (wsj) →
“Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.”
– Brendan Gill
“One learns to itch where one can scratch.”
– Ernest Bramah
Fare well, free trade →
Fetal foot, intestines, more found inside 3 day... →
Milgram Redux: Same Results →
“It’s always too soon to quit.”
– David Scoates
Angry at Google. →
Exciting discovery could 'stop cancer from killing... →
“Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.”
– Charles Kingsley
Year In Ideas 2008 - NY Times Mag →
I particularly liked the Two-Tier Teacher Contract.
“The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by...”
– Ezra Pound
“The regularity of a habit is generally in proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
With-it-ness, Teachers and Quarterbacks (Galdwell) →
Pay the obese to lose weight, says study →
If this ever gained traction I would immediately start a on an eclair and egg nog diet.
Time's Top Ten List of Everything →
“The more the world is specialized the more it will be run by generalists.”
– Marcel Masse
