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Your week in Quickies
Jun 04 2005, 09:41 EDT
Hair stylists and salons confirm that brown now is the hottest choice among clients -- and that even blondes and redheads are converting
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Your week in Quickies
May 26 2005, 10:38 EDT
Get paid for temp Tattoo
[teddied]
May 24 2005, 10:12 EDT
I want the Target Logo in the middle of my forehead.
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Boston Sailing
May 23 2005, 18:19 EDT [updated May 23 2005, 18:22 EDT]
A friend of mine is taking some sailing courses at the Boston Sailing Center and seems to be enjoying it. The place looks pretty cool.
It's a yacht club, but not really in that the members don't have their own boats. Basically, you pay your membershi
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Back from Vacation in SC (11 images)
May 20 2005, 12:06 EDT [updated May 20 2005, 12:10 EDT]
I was in South Carolina last week which explains the flurry of catch-up posts recently. I tried to use the only wifi hotspot I could find, the lobby of this swanky hotel (a large coffee was $1.75, quite reasonable so I had two). It turns out my laptop ha
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Bunshit
May 19 2005, 23:29 EDT [updated May 20 2005, 12:14 EDT]
According to this article hotdog buns will now be sold in packages of eight instead of six to match the fact that hotdogs are sold in packages of eight. The article recounts the old comedian's complaint that someone was out to get ya (or playing a joke)
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The Economics of the Football Draft
May 19 2005, 22:52 EDT [updated May 19 2005, 23:13 EDT]
Prof Bainbridge points to a new paper The Loser's Curse: Overconfidence vs. Market Efficiency in the NFL Draft. At 60 pages with lots of formulas I won't encourage everyone to read the whole thing. Because the annual draft is public, and drafted player'
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Your week in Quickies
May 19 2005, 20:50 EDT
Love that scrapple
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May 19 2005, 16:58 EDT
I've been thinking a lot about scrapple lately, and ran across this fine article
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A Despotic Primer: Hugo Chavez
May 19 2005, 01:04 EDT [updated May 19 2005, 09:06 EDT]
SRWU posted a do gooder email a bit too reflexively -
it endorses supporting the Venezuelan oil inudstry over others as a political statement (never mind that buying oil from one company just subsidises people who buy from another). I posted a comment
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Big Knitting
May 18 2005, 21:47 EDT [updated May 18 2005, 21:56 EDT]
As a result of a conversation I had recently about labels I will refrain from using the word "union" when talking about unions and will instead say "guild." They mean the same thing, not incidentally because that's what they are. One just happens to sou
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Does Relative Wealth Inequality Trump Relative Wealth?
May 18 2005, 20:38 EDT [updated May 18 2005, 21:37 EDT]
Would you rather be average for a poor country or poor in a rich one? This is a question that isn't asked in a recent NYT piece. Money quote from page 1:
A paradox lies at the heart of this new American meritocracy. Merit has replaced the old system
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UN takes fraud and waste lessons from Boston
May 18 2005, 18:19 EDT [updated May 19 2005, 02:14 EDT]
Real conversation with a Boston cabbie this weekend during a traffic jam in the Ted Williams tunnel:
Me: So when are they going to start putting people in jail for this shit?
Cabbie: Nobody's going to jail, the guys that hired the contractors wrote t
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Door to Door Fun
May 18 2005, 18:05 EDT [updated May 18 2005, 18:34 EDT]
In the Republic of Somerville we get door-to-door do gooders fairly frequently. Just had this conversation with a college aged coed.
Her: We are gathering signatures for a divestment of city funds to stop spending to countries that abuse human rights.
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A Conservative Take on Revenge of the Sith
May 18 2005, 17:57 EDT
General interest publications do general things. Right now the new Star Wars movie is hot so Conservative mags have reviews just the same as everyone else. Unsurprisingly they are as conflicted of opinion as everyone else.
National Review says it is go
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The World Family System
May 18 2005, 15:23 EDT [updated May 18 2005, 17:18 EDT]
The Nation writes a review of Between Sex and Power, a study of "patriarchy, marriage and fertility" 1900-current. Excerpt:
At the beginning of his story, around 1900, patriarchy in this classical sense was a universal pattern, albeit with uneven gradat
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Your week in Quickies
May 10 2005, 15:33 EDT
Bunny Suicides
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May 08 2005, 20:08 EDT
Yet another strange, twisted little corner of the web.
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Economics in One Lesson is now online
May 09 2005, 12:20 EDT
Economics in One Lesson, the excellent book by Henry Hazlitt, is now online for free, courtesy of FEE, the Foundation for Economic Education. I'm pretty sure there's a good joke in here somewhere about an organization called FEE that is offering a book ca
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Pizza Frustration
May 09 2005, 10:47 EDT [updated May 09 2005, 11:11 EDT]
I get something from the pizza place around the corner at least once a week. I have the same conversation half time I call in an order, and it drives me nuts.
Guy: Sal's Pizza, how may I help you?
Me: I'd like to place an order for pickup.
Guy: H
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Free land in Kansas
May 05 2005, 11:58 EDT [updated May 05 2005, 17:33 EDT]
9News has an article about Atwood, Kansas. They're giving away home-sized lots if you build there. kansasfreeland.com lists a few other Kansas cities doing the same thing.
Oh, no takers yet in Atwood.
[jackdied] A quick google shows you can buy a w
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The Library Lobby?
May 04 2005, 23:15 EDT [updated May 05 2005, 17:40 EDT]
Deroy Murdock has something to say about libraries and the Patriot Act over at NRO.
I'm going to nit to pick with his reasoning, and then ask a big question of anyone who really, really hates the library provision of the Patriot Act.
five other 9/11
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