We Have a Winner
I doubt there will be a better front page headline this year. A remarkably brave choice by the editor of the New York Post.
Details7 Suggestions for Scott Adams
Rarely has cartooning thrown up a more insightful individual than Scott Adams. His creation Dilbert the cubicle inhabiting engineer should be compulsory reading for anyone contemplating doing an MBA and his Way of the Weasal is compulsory for anyone who wants understand just WTF most people in business and politics are talking about. Adams…
DetailsWeekend Reading
• The theory of rockets and parachutes: a primer on US gasoline prices (The Barrel) • What the Mafia teaches about fiscal policy (Olaf Storbeck) • The Bond Vigilante (The Atlantic) • Faulty Towers: The Crisis in Higher Education (The Nation) • The great corporate tax swindle (Guardian) • A Crude Guess About The Future…
DetailsFreewill
Excellent piece on free will from Biophilia Free will- solved! A theory of free will. One of the perennial chestnuts of philosophy is the problem of free will. Mostly a problem for theists rather than non-theists, it still holds a few mysteries for everyone. Is our natural intuition of freedom true, that we reign as sovereign…
DetailsJust Looking
Have you ever fired up the Google box for the purposes of finding something pertinent and relevant to your next task only to find yourself four hours later amazed by your new found knowledge that a crocodile cannot stick out its tongue or that there is no Betty Rubble in The Flintstones chewable vitamins. Seeking…
DetailsWas it Worth It
I was just scanning this little piece on Raj Rajaratnam the billionaire who has just been found guilty of insider trading. It states that he made around $60 million over about six years by using his highly placed network. This raises the question of if you are worth a billionaire bucks is a further $60…
DetailsAnother Win For Quality Journalism
Apparently Osama bin Laden was killed by terrorists from the 24th century……who would have thunk it. Its good to see that crappy, ill informed, drive by journalism is not just a feature of our media – the globalisation of mediocrity continues.
DetailsMore Madoff
This time from the point of view of the SEC which displayed a remarkable lack of vigor in its pursuit of Madoff.