Okay blogophytes time to extend the grey matter again • The Cognitive Cost of Doing Things (Lifehacker) • Secret Stealthy Helicopters Used in OBL Attack (NYT) • Einstein was right. Again. (NASA) • Woody Allen on Inspiration (The Browser)  

Okay blogophytes time to extend the grey matter again • The Cognitive Cost of Doing Things (Lifehacker) • Secret Stealthy Helicopters Used in OBL Attack (NYT) • Einstein was right. Again. (NASA) • Woody Allen on Inspiration (The Browser)

I say who gives a shit – this is the sort of irrelevancy that amateurs who fail constantly and conspiracy nuts look to as justification for their loserness (I just invented a word) A key feature among successful traders is that they accept that the market will tell them everything they need to know and…

Obviously there are no words in Mandarin that approximate occupational health and safety.

Excellent chat with game theorist Ariel Rubinstein. Ariel Rubinstein of Tel Aviv University and New York University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the state of game theory and behavioral economics, two of the most influential areas of economics in recent years. Drawing on his Afterword for the 60th anniversary edition of Von Neumann…

Obviously there are no words in Mandarin that approximate occupational health and safety.

Good work if you can get it

I dont know what it is but I just love watching stupid people do stupid things. I find it so reaffirming.

I dont know what it is but I just love watching stupid people do stupid things. I find it so reaffirming.

Good work if you can get it

It seems as if silver has stopped fizzing at the bung hole. The question is can anything be deduced from this and the answer to this is not really. It is simply a demonstration that markets can go up and then they can go down.

With all the gnashing of teeth regarding the collapse of the USD and the subsequent end of civilisation as we know it should this fall continue I thought I would post a chart of the USD Index. The USD Index measure the performance of the USD versus a basket of currencies. On this chart I…

  Years of looking using drones and satellites, thousands of live gone and trillions of dollars spent and where did they find him? In his house. F$%k me thats the first place I would have looked.