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Megan McArdle on the Choices Women Make

Good article, as one expects from McArdle, even when you don’t always agree with her. Never having been to business school, nor any kind of school at Harvard, I can’t dispute anything she discusses...

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Silicon Valley is Not Cool.

The migration of cool from the culture to the tech world. A nobly quixotic attempt to have the use of the word “cool” bear some resemblance to the meaning thereof. I salute his gallant folly.

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The 27 rules of suits.

Care of: The Best Article Every Day. Some of these, worth knowing.

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The Passing of a Dog

James Lileks says good-bye to his beloved Jasper, and as someone who still remembers fondly the dog of his youth (McGee, Bane of Moles, Scoffer at Chain-Link Fences), I was moved beyond the capacity to...

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Buzzfeed Trolls Buzzfeed

Heh. The sads in the comment section makes it even better. I’m a bad person.

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The “Dear Burrito Guy” Essay, and Why Irony Does not Translate

Over on Medium, a fellow referring to himself as “Lucky Shirt” (twitter handle, I’m assuming), just penned (it just sounds better than “typed”) an amusing rant about his poorly made burrito. View...

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Old Internet Article About the Metric System Nails it

Metric is useful for certain things, but Imperial is more human. Then I start to realize that for length there is a similar problem in the metric system, in that you can’t divide a meter continuously...

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I’m Surrounded by Women.

Which is to say, the dearth of posting at this blog will be entirely blamed on the arrival of my youngest daughter, who blessed us earlier this month. All babies come out with the “Duuuude…”...

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Mom Claims to be Breastfeeding Her 12-Year-Old Son on ThoughtCatalog, and the...

Sometimes it’s hard to know when an idea is so crazy that someone advocating it is pulling your leg. I’ll admit it: when I read this paragraph… The fact of the matter is, if it weren’t natural, I...

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Dealing with Zombie Debt

Megan McArdle, illuminating a very real issue: Very old debts are very difficult to collect, because they disappear from credit reports after seven years, and after a state’s statute of limitation on...

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Why Chess Computers do Not Signal Skynet

An excerpted chapter from Nate Silver’s The Signal and the Noise is worth reading in its entirety. It deals with how Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov in 1997: Deep Blue had won. Only, it had done so less...

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Going Black and White for November

AKA, farting around with Flickr and Instagram. A corridor between buildings where I work. The view from my room. Click the link to see more.

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The Three Steps of Cord Cutting

Step 1: “I’m paying $100 a month for cable. Netflix costs $8 a month, Amazon Prime $75 a year. WTH?” Step 2: “Is it really worth $100 a month to watch football and 24-hour news?” Step 3: “Hold up,...

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If Blogs are Dying, We Shall Miss Them.

Lileks at his profound best. While most blogs weren’t deathless examples of great writing, there was the opportunity for individualism, and you don’t get that from a Pinterest page. You don’t get it...

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Spengler: You Are Not Original. Be Glad of It.

Why You Won’t Find the Meaning of Life: Most people who make heroic efforts at originality learn eventually that they are destined for no such thing. If they are lucky, they content themselves with...

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Are People Really That Bothered by the Word “Moist”?

I remember first hearing this back in college. It was girls who said that they hated the way “moist” sounded. I’ve never had that level of aversion to a word, where I experience white-girl-ewws if I...

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When You Just Can’t Get into Authors You Want to Get Into

Last night, instead of going to sleep like a sensible person, I read Bret Easton Ellis’ “Thoughts on David Foster Wallace and ‘The End of the Tour‘”. In it, the American Psycho author holds forth on...

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Correia Blogs Fallout, I Have a CK2 Nerdery.

I’ve never played Fallout. Or anything like that. I have a Wii U. I play Super Mario 3-D Word with my three-year-old. So most of this post at Monster Hunter Nation may as well be in Chinese. But a few...

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Comparing Apple Music and Spotify, angrily.

The definition of first world problems, sure, but if you want to pay money to curate your own music streaming experience, it’s good info. I like the snark at the top. For me, the only legitimate...

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Atheist Mysogynist Dudebros and Godless Misandrist Tumblrinas

A nice laugh of a headline from RS McCain. The post in question goes into the fact that even shared anti-theism can’t bring radfems and RedPillers together. Everything’s a contest of who hates who more.

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