Noah Shachtman has a story on PAM defenders. There are plenty of examples in it where markets are pretty good predictors. Noah’s weblog also has links to other PAM stories [here and here]. What really caught my eye are links to markets predicting future homeland security alerts and the extend and duration of SARS outbreaks. […]
The NY Times Book Review reviewed Gary Wolf’s Wired. David Carr writes that the book isn’t so much a romance as the subtitle states as a “theological autopsy of a religion that flourished and went away in less than a decade.”
“Wired: The Coolest Magazine on the Planet”
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Dylan Wilbanks, Mark Hasty, and James Joyner are yapping about really, really bad songs. Here’s my list of the 10 worst:
“Kokomo” by The Beach Boys–This song is a farce of themselves.
“Faith” by Limp Bizkit–How could this song make this band stars? Fred Durst sounds like he’s wetting the bed while singing. Then he starts screaming […]
Michele’s post makes me glad I don’t remember my dreams.
“This One Time, at Blogger Camp…”
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An electronic market where traders would buy and sell futures on economic, civil, and military events was a great idea. Too bad the Pentagon caved in to some Congressional pressure.
The premise was to use markets to gather dispersed information into a form policy makers and strategists could use to base their anti-terrorism plans. Sounds […]
AfricaBlog has a laudable goal:
The goal is to create a site that focuses on the challenges faced by the West in developing policies that help lift the continent of Africa out of the political and economic strife that has plagued the continent.
There’s already a discussion on some of the root causes for Africa’s political economic […]
ScrappleFace’s post on airline commuters telling terrorists to “Bring it on!” is funny but also true. Passengers won’t sit quietly if their plane gets hijacked. They’ll fight back because a possible alternative is certain death. If the Pentagon wouldn’t have wimped out on their terrorist futures market, I’d have recommended shorting September 11-style attacks.
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“Ode to Rachel Corrie” is an original web movie by Michelle.
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Fantasy football players have plenty of options for Internet leagues. Here are some well-known options:
NFL.com only charges $14.95 for the first team and $7.95 for each additional team. Great deal.
ESPN.com charges $29.95 for one team, $49.95 for three teams, and $69.95 for five teams.
CBS SportsLine.com is more expensive. They charge $39.95 for the first team […]
OTB links to a story on some of the people running for California governor. The entrance fee is pretty low. You only need 65 signatures and $3500 or 10,000 signatures and no cash. That’s not a lot, but how can “Homeless Navy vet Jerry Morissette (I) — the adopted caretaker of an I-280 highway rest […]
Thanks to Firefive for putting TAM on his blogroll.
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Only 21 days until Webloggers draft day. Only three teams have signed up so there’s plenty of room left. Just go to Yahoo’s page and register. Here’s the league info:
League: Webloggers
League ID#: 206845
Password: 2003nfl
Draft Type: Live
Draft Time: Aug 20, 3:25 pm CDT
Scoring Type: Head-to-Head
The draft is at an odd time of the day. If […]
Attention, attention! The newest Bonfire of the Vanities is up. There are lots of bad yet funny posts. Just please ignore mine about the purple bear.
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When GenCon moved from Milwaukee to Indianapolis, the news coverage moved with it. Instead of the special section the Journal Sentinel use to give before the convention started, they’re now down to one story printed after the con ended.
By the way, doesn’t Stanley Miller II look a lot like Oliver Willis?
“High-Tech Fantasy Enchants Traditional […]
California is suffering the worst budget crisis in its history. It’s gotten so bad, voters will decide if they want to recall their governor this fall. While all this is happening, the legislature is poised to heavily regulate phone companies. Poor phone service is the last of California’s problems right now.
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