Bugged Greg Knauss writing at An Entirely Other Day: I don’t normally like to talk politics. Not real politics. I’ll smart-ass on Twitter, but I get uncomfortable as soon as I feel the need to be earnest. I don’t trust myself when I actually care. But the Republican convention just finished up, and tens of thousands of people […]
More Small Businesses Offering Health Care To Employees Thanks To Obamacare by Rick Ungar at Forbes (tagged: economy politics HCR ) Mark Bouton Appointed to New Robert B. Lawson Professorship in Psychology Congrats to Dr. Bouton–he's a hell of a guy; and so is Dr. Lawson, whom the professorship honors. (tagged: Vermont ) Noodle Soup […]
1.0 Is the Loneliest Number Matt Mullenweg: Usage is like oxygen for ideas. (tagged: Apple essay innovation ) John Scalzi’s You’re Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop at Writers on Writing (at Tor.com) (tagged: writing essay )
“We’ve become so obsessed with who wins or loses in politics that we’ve forgotten what the winning and losing are about.†– William Saletan “Democrats didn’t lose the battle of 2010. They won it.â€Â (Slate Magazine)
Waterloo And to keep it balanced, a quote from FrumForum: This time, when we went for all the marbles, we ended with none. UPDATED: looking at this again, this here might be the more relevant pull quote 1: Could a deal have been reached? Who knows? But we do know that the gap between this […]
35 Google open-source projects that you probably don’t know at 0x1fff — quite a few things to check out here… (tagged: webdev google opensource todo ) Simulating single-payer by Paul Krugman at NYTimes.com (via lawnczar) (tagged: politics HCR Krugman essay ) Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity at The Endeavour (via […]