New Scientist Breaking News – Why it is hard to share the wealth: They found that while the income distribution among the super-wealthy – about 3% of the population – does follow Pareto’s law, incomes for the remaining 97% fitted a different curve – one that also describes the spread of energies of atoms in […]

George W. Bush Presidential Library: the first part is pretty funny, the last is old news.

Phil Bradley: Finding what you need with the best search engines: this is a good short overview.

City Pages – No. 1?: The United States is 49th in the world in literacy (the New York Times, Dec. 12, 2004). The United States ranked 28th out of 40 countries in mathematical literacy (NYT, Dec. 12, 2004). Twenty percent of Americans think the sun orbits the earth. Seventeen percent believe the earth revolves around […]

Wooden Laptop, Computer Portatili in Legno: if you have the money…. why not.

Tinderbox 2.4: Tinderbox 2.4 is now available! It’s got tons of important new features: —————- good news

Fore-edge painting: these are cool

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: The Debt-Peonage Society: Warren Buffett recently made headlines by saying America is more likely to turn into a “sharecroppers’ society” than an “ownership society.” But I think the right term is a “debt peonage” society – after the system, prevalent in the post-Civil War South, in […]

Slacker Manager: The unspoken language of…: If a picture is better than a thousand words, then a person’s body language has got to “speak” volumes. A lot of the focus on body language at work has been on how to avoid looking all twitchy and nervous. Not much is mentioned about how to use body […]