Archive for August, 2006

Guess he doesn't want to block any more tubes…

30th Aug 2006General

Think Progress (via TPMmuckraker) reports that Ted Stevens (R- Alaska) is the only senator blocking the proposed online database that would provide easy More »

What are they thinking?

28th Aug 2006General

Say for a second you think most politicians are rich, dumb white folks. (I could generalize even more by saying men, but I’ll More »

On to the next hollywood story…

28th Aug 2006General

Well, it looks like the couple weeks of “breaking” (stunning, on-the-edge-of-your-seat, compelling news coverage!) JonBenet/John Karr was all for nothing. No DNA match, More »

Gladwell on pensions and the dependency ratio

28th Aug 2006General

Over at The New Yorker, Malcolm Gladwell writes on pensions and the dependency ratio.

The recent Bush press conference

23rd Aug 2006General

Over at Slate.com, one of the most accurate and excellent commentaries on the recent Bush press conference and overall Bush strategy in the More »

Defining success

23rd Aug 2006General

I came across a very interesting post today on defining success at 37signals’ Signal vs. Noise blog, written by Jason Fried. The post More »

Airfare Predictions with Farecast

23rd Aug 2006General

Taking a trip? Watch airfare trends and get recommendations from Farecast.com. They just added Buffalo and the functionality looks very cool!

GTDGmail Firefox Extension

23rd Aug 2006General

Add GTD (Getting Things Done) functionality to Gmail and Firefox easily with the new GTDGmail extension.

Two incomes vs. one

22nd Aug 2006General

Interesting question over at MetaFilter: In the U.S., why does a family need two incomes to live at a standard that was previously More »

Lessons learned from Kiko

21st Aug 2006General

By now, many of you have probably heard of Kiko, an online calendar application, due mainly to it being put out to auction More »