The One Percent
The total wealth of American households is estimated at more than $60 trillion. It is heavily concentrated in very few hands. A conservative estimate given the lifespans of Americans would be that 2 percent...
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Pizza Time with Baking Steel
I decided I should expand from making just curries and pilafs. So I looked into getting a pizza stone but then found out the silly things break all the time. So I researched around...
Salò, or the Funding Round
This is what really happens at Y Combinator Demo Days:
Zynga Man’s Man Boobs
Zynga is an ethically challenged company that churns out Skinner Box “games” almost but not completely devoid of class or originality. It’s also been noted for being no less shy than most of the...
They Got To Da Choppas (That Were Working)
So it seems as if this Democratic President learned one hard lesson from his predecessor Carter’s aborted attempt to stage a commando raid: if there are helicopters involved, some of them will malfunction. Carter’s...
Saturday Grimey
Billy Electron
Bank Wars: A New Hope
Financial-market wise guys, who had been seized with fear, are suddenly drunk with hope. They are rallying explosively because they think they have successfully stampeded Washington into accepting the Wall Street Journal solution to...
Hot Off the Presses
So, spurred on by the revelations that ex-Hitler Speech connoisseur Tom Costello from my old college TCD has got himself a new search engine that apparently returns more targetted gay porn results than Google,...
Fish Are Jumpin’ And the Mice Are High
No updates for a while. I have been rather busy working in a lab investigating the molecular basis of schizophrenia and aging using oxidative mechanisms (mainly by bothering mice dosed up on ketamine and...
Cultural Depictions of Joan of Arc
I was inspired by yesterday’s entry to add this little pearl of wisdom to Wikipedia’s entry for Cultural Depictions of Joan of Arc: In the Herald Childe or Image of the Beast novel sequence...