Archive for April, 2008
Sunday, April 13th, 2008
This Willie Mays PSA really scared me as a kid.
You protect your arms and hands legs and save your eyes. If you see a blasting cap remember now, don't touch them. Tell a police or a fireman or whatever it is. Have fun like I do with those (baseball ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Mark "Language Log" Liberman is taking Steven D. "Freakonomics" Levitt to task for either misunderstanding the language of statistics, or the underlying statistics theory itself.
In a blog post, "Medicine and Statistics Don't Mix," Levitt tells the story of friends of his who spent $5,000 on Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) -- ...
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Saturday, April 5th, 2008
I talked to my brother Dave on the phone today, and we agreed that we haven't played basketball in 300 years. But we have a hoop in the backyard, and I've decided to try to get 'good' at shooting foul shots. The advantage of foul shots, of course, is that ...
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Saturday, April 5th, 2008
My co-minions at Powerset have been growing (or faking growing) facial hair in the run up to our beta launch. And, of course, it has its own blog: Powerstache.com. It's even made the LA Times, and Michael Arrington's initial take on our beta product even mentions it.
Chris pretty much ...
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