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Will’s Link-O-Rama 9/14/07

Friday, 14 September 2007 @ 8:47 pm by Will · links • Comments off

09/10 Garrett Does It Again
It’s been a kick digging up all these lost books by Garet Garrett. What amazing insight he had in e..
09/13 Why Living a Life of Gratitude Can Make You Happy
Photo by kalandrakas “If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, ‘thank you,’ that wo..
09/09 The Nanny State
It’s tyranny pure and simple, says Charley Reese.
09/12 A Cross-elasticity Surprise
A reader calls my attention to new research on gas prices : A causal relationship between gasoline p..
09/10 Test-Driving Porsche 911 Turbo Cabriolet: 480 Horsepower
Porsche’s new 911 Turbo Cabriolet is an open-top rocket. Even on a wide-open autobahn, our reviewer ..
09/12 The Perfect Jump Shot, Deconstructed
Keep your eye on the ball, say scientists.
09/09 How to Be Boring
Boring people - they’re everywhere. You can tell when you are in the presence of such a person wh..
09/08 Rainbow Hash Cracking
The multi-platform password cracker Ophcrack is incredibly fast. How fast? It can crack the passwor..
09/05 Savant School: How to Memorize 10,000 Numbers and More
The spectrum of human memory potential: Daniel “Brainman” Tammet beats blackjack and Japanese sc..
09/06 Design Your Life: What Would You Do If You Had Nothing To Do?
Photo by Carol. Every Thursday is Happiness Day on Zen Habits. What would you be doing tomorrow if ..
09/05 5 Signs You Are On Autopilot
I was on autopilot for many years. Sure, I was traveling through life with my eyes open and my hand..
09/05 Wired’s How To Wiki: Save YouTube Videos to Your Hard Drive
YouTube and other video-sharing sites provide endless hours of wholesome, time-wasting entertainment..
09/03 Legendary Music Producer Says IPod Will Soon Be Obsolete
Rick Rubin, the pioneering music producer who worked with the Beastie Boys, Johnny Cash, Run DMC and..
09/03 Economic Disaster 101
Print a lot of money, control prices and wages, and then watch the laws of economics take over.
08/31 Did the Soviets really build a “doomsday machine”?
“The nuclear doomsday machine.” It’s a Cold War term that has long seemed obsolete. [ more … ]
08/29 Kerouac’s “On the Road” Remains an Anthem for the ‘Crazy Ones’
We pay a lot of lip service to the idea of the rugged individualist, but Jack Kerouac’s amped-up cla..

Link-O-Rama 8/25/07

Saturday, 25 August 2007 @ 11:13 pm by Will · links • Comments off

Fed bends rules for two big banks
In a clear sign that the credit crunch is still affecting the nation’s largest financial institution..

Housewife hid $3 million in forex gains
TOKYO (Reuters) - A financially savvy Tokyo housewife who made 400 million yen ($3.44 million) tradi..

6 Practical and Powerful Ways to Overcome Depression
This is a guest post from John Van Sickel of Walking the Black Dog , a blog about overcoming depres..

Gambling Dispute With a Tiny Country Puts U.S. in a Bind
A trade dispute filed by Antigua and Barbuda, a Caribbean nation with dozens of online casinos, chal..

Try Giving These Up
To follow that article from Tim Ferriss about habits to quit, here are 10 ‘odd’ things to give ..

Debt repayment is not an expense
By Philip Brewer Over and over again, in budgeting articles and even books on personal finance, I se..

Ratings Agencies 2007 = Equity Analysts 2000 ?
Way back in the late 1990s into the early 2000s, a previously well regarded group — stock analysts..

Link-O-Rama 8/14/07

Tuesday, 14 August 2007 @ 8:33 am by Will · links • Comments off

08/13 See Who’s Editing Wikipedia - Diebold, the CIA, a Campaign
What if you could spot who’s editing Wikipedia entries? A CalTech grad student devises Wikipedia Sca..
08/13 How come pieces of foam always fall off the space shuttle?
A baseball-sized chunk of foam dislodged from the space shuttle Endeavor’s fuel tank during last wee..
07/03 The 12-Step Get-Out-of-Debt Program
Every Tuesday is Finance & Family Day at Zen Habits. Debt is a major problem for a lot of people th..
08/06 A 3-Step Cure for Digital Packrats, and How to Know If You’re One of..
Every Monday is Productivity & Organization Day at Zen Habits. I have a confession to make: until r..
08/13 You are what you choose
Always making fully conscious choices is the key to a positive life Living your life consciously is..
08/10 Simple Magic Tricks Revealed
Ok, so we covered how you can beat the Carnies and win at the carnival games. Today our weekend trea..
08/11 Alcohol is good for your heart
By Philip Brewer After quitting smoking, having one or two drinks a day is the best single thing you..

Link-O-Rama 8/11/07

Saturday, 11 August 2007 @ 4:38 pm by Will · links • Comments off

08/09 How to Memorize Verbatim Text
Memorizing does not have to be as hard as most people make it. The problem is that most people only..
08/08 What makes Southern sweet tea so special?
“It’s rough. It’s been rough on that food. It’s different eating here than it is at the house. Ain’t..
08/09 The Trouble With Economists
The WSJ Op-Ed pages remains a fertile ground for debate. Up today is Brian Wesbury — a very nice g..
08/09 Becoming an Effective Skeptic: End Belief, Faith and Certainty
“I don’t know.” Perhaps the three hardest words to say in the English language. But perhaps t..
06/12 Interview: Biggest Time Waster
This is the first of a three part post where we asked a bunch of productivity experts three questio..
07/26 Your Employer Owes You Nothing
I see many people working a normal job with the idea that if they work hard they will be rewarded f..
08/07 How to Lucid Dream
The most basic definition of lucid dreaming defines it as “being aware you are dreaming while dreami..
08/08 Fossils Shake Human Family Tree
A famed paleontologist throws a wrench in the standard theory of our origins.
08/07 Debt Is Slavery: Ten Lessons
J.D. Roth at GetRichSlowly reviews Michael Mihalik’s 2007 book, Debt is Slavery (and 9 Other Thin..
08/06 Drug Marketing Exposed — Again and Again
The Los Angeles Times devotes its health section today to exposing drug industry marketing to physic..
08/07 Entombed Microbes Come Back to Life
Microbes locked in Antarctica’s ice for more than 100,000 years are revived in the lab.

Link-O-Rama 8/6/07

Monday, 6 August 2007 @ 9:30 am by Will · links • Comments off

08/03 Dark Matter: All Wrong?
The mysterious substance may not exist after all, if alternative theories are right.
07/30 Why are we so scared of offending Muslims?
During the greater part of last week, Slate’s sister site On Faith (it is jointly pro..
07/30 How to Predict the Weather Without a Forecast
Long before technology was developed to predict the weather, people had to rely on ob..
07/27 Why Your Free Time is Boring
How do you spend your off hours? Do you watch television? Do you surf the web? Read ..
07/25 Don’t Be Eeyore
One of the barriers to a happy, effective life is the way that we create negativity ..
07/23 Things I wish I’d known when I was younger
Most people learn over time, but often learning comes too late to be fully useful. T..
07/19 Carbon Offsets — Buyer Beware
Congress began investigating the carbon offset industry this week. The inquiry could ..
07/13 How to Get Started with Google Reader
One of the core technologies behind the Web 2.0 “revolution” is RSS (Really Simp..