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• personal

  FiveThirtyEight.com

  09.27.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Am I the last one to discover FiveThirtyEight.com? Lots of great election data and analysis like this on strange betting patterns at Intrade.

• politics

  The Great Schlep

  09.26.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  My favorite female Jewish comedian Sarah Silverman has a new campaign at The Great Schlep: “The Great Schlep aims to have Jewish grandchildren visit their grandparents in Florida, educate them about Obama, and therefore swing the crucial Florida vote in his favor.”

  See more Sarah Silverman videos at Funny or Die

• politics

  Like grumpy toddlers

  09.26.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Debates now remind me of doing a parent hour at Niko’s coop day care. Only much less fun.

• news, politics

  Free Levi

  09.21.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  From freelevi.org:

  If we can’t, after all is said and done, make this election go the right way, at least we can save one man. I’m talking about young Master Levi Johnston. He’s the 18-year-old Alaskan hockey enthusiast who knocked up Sarah Palin’s daughter, and the National Enquirer describes him as “a boozing pot-smoker who doesn’t [...]

• finance, news

  Summary of the financial apocalypse

  09.18.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  The NYT Freakonomics blog has a good summary of just what the hell is happening right now in financial markets.

• politics

  What makes people vote Republican

  09.17.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  As it turns out, it’s a genetic disorder:

  But now that we can map the brains, genes, and unconscious attitudes of conservatives, we have refined our diagnosis: conservatism is a partially heritable personality trait that predisposes some people to be cognitively inflexible, fond of hierarchy, and inordinately afraid of uncertainty, change, and death.

  Here’s hoping that the [...]

• finance, news

  Recent photos from North Korea

  09.17.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  North Korea, or a post-financial apocalypse United States? Some amazing recent photos from North Korea at Boston.com (from @pkedrosky).

• finance

  NNT on current financial crisis

  09.17.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Largely a repeat of his books but interesting in context of the last few days/weeks/months. The Fourth Quadrant: A Map of the limits of Statistics.

• finance, personal

  Ballard real estate

  09.17.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I learned today from my new favorite blog myballard.com that our zip code is the eight fastest selling in the country, with an average time on the market of 86 days. Looking at the list Ballard has done pretty well in comparison to many higher up on the list, like Plano, Tex. (#4) where prices [...]

• politics

  What Obama can learn from Bill Ritter

  09.04.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Interesting political piece in the New Yorker: The Code Of The West: What Barack Obama can learn from Bill Ritter.

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