Bluebird Banter (Free subscription) | yesterday
There isn't all that much for Blue Jay news this morning, but before I get to what there is: I forgot to check out our World Series predictions right after it ended, likely due to sadness that the Yankees won. Looking back I see that Masterkembo was the only one to guess Yankees in 6. Good job sir. Two more Jays have filed for free agency. Marco Scutaro and John McDonald . I'm sure Barajas will soon...
Just One More Ten Pence Piece ... (Free subscription) | yesterday
One of the things I used to really like about Amazon was that the marketing emails it occasionally sent you and the recommendations it made on its site were usually pretty good. Spookily accurate in some instances. However, I have noticed over the last year that these predictions are becoming far less good and, dare [...]
Earth and other unlikely worlds (Free subscription) | yesterday
Data from Kaguya's prime mission to the Moon has been released 'Yesterday, the Japanese space agency announced the public release of the data from the primary mission of the Kaguya (a.k.a. SELENE) lunar orbiter. The release covers the period from December 21, 2007 to October 31, 2008, and includes data from all of the science instruments (which excludes the HD camera, not a science instrument)....
Website Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Verizon's Droid mobile device was released this week, another strong entry into the smartphone market. And that's one of the reasons Millennial Media (a leading mobile ad firm) is predicting a major surge in mobile ad spend in 2010. The report surveyed 100 leading ad agencies and brands who claim they will increase their mobile ad spending significantly in 2010. Take a look at the chart here, representing...
Gene Expression (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Richard Hoste has an article up at Takimag rehashing the familiar argument that the Godless Europeans, influenced by feminism, are dying out. Whether and to what degree religiosity correlates with fecundity is an issue that has already been addressed by people more knowledgeable than I. However, it deserves to be noted that there is direct and indirect evidence that the total fertility rates that Hoste...
ColoradoPols.com - Front Page (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
It's November 2009, but the pundits are already out, constructing a new conventional wisdom about voter trends for years to come. ? The Denver Post, for instance, headlined Thursday's front page story "Big ballot plans may be a "no" go in Colorado" : "The drama of the losses (Tuesday) in terms of taxes is going to put a tremendous chill on the forces who want to put something...
Daily Kos (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
[bumped - BarbinMD] Nonfarm payroll jobs fell another 190,000 October, and the U3 unemployment rate calculated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics rose to 10.2%, it was announced this morning. The layoffs were higher than the 175,000 consensus of 84 economists surveyed beforehand by Bloomberg. But the number was also the lowest monthly job loss recorded since August 2008, an indication that the grim...
The Observer (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
British Airways reported a £292m pretax loss for the first half this morning and its chief executive Willie Walsh cited predictions that industry would lose $11bn this year. Revenues fell 13.7% in the six months to the end of September. The airline has slashed costs and said there would be further structural change in the second half to ensure the long-term future of its business. Walsh said:...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Peter Kenyon's successor at Stamford Bridge wants to lead the club to new heights On the face of it, Ron Gourlay has taken on one of the cushiest jobs in English football. Chelsea are top of the Premier League, having entranced with a scintillating style, sweeping all-comers aside. The new manager is winning allies, the club's ambitious owner is enthused, and on a summer tour of the United States...
Bill Totten's Weblog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Is Coming to an Early End by Michael T Klare, Tomdispatch.com AlterNet (October 27 2009) Memo to the CIA: You may not be prepared for time-travel, but welcome to 2025 anyway! Your rooms may be a little small, your ability to demand better accommodations may have gone out the window, and the amenities may not be to your taste, but get used to it. It's going to be your reality from now on. Okay, now...
Media Matters for America (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
An Investor's Business Daily editorial falsely claimed that Al Gore "still claims" hurricanes "are increasing in frequency and intensity" as a result of global warming and that "[w]hat has happened in the past three years is that such claims have been thoroughly debunked as the earth has cooled, possibly for decades hence." In fact, Gore has said that there is no consensus...
The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
As we said yesterday , all the cool, bearish folks are dollar bulls now. Elliot Wave analyst Robert Prechter, who yesterday described the crash of 2008 as a "warm up," was on Tech Ticker explaining his belief that the dollar will surge. TechTicker : Ever the contrarian, Prechter cited the heavy bearish sentiment on the dollar when he made similar predictions here in August . Since then,...
Sentient Developments (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
From the four corners of the web: J.D. Trout - The Science of the Good Society | Point of Inquiry J.D. Trout is a professor of philosophy at Loyola University Chicago, and an adjunct professor at the Parmly Sensory Sciences Institute. He writes on the nature of scientific and intellectual progress, as well as on the contribution that social science can make to human well-being. He is the author of...
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
A roundup of some stories that were supposed to be pretty big, but then seemed to fizzle out. April '08: Gore to recruit 10m-strong green army | Environment | The Guardian Al Gore yesterday launched a drive to mobilise 10 million volunteers to force politicians to act on climate change - twice as many as the number who marched against the Vietnam war or in support of civil rights during the heyday...
View From North America (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
After spending way too much time celebrating the things not college football, the View From America can now truly say that we’re concentrating on Saturdays from now on in. As usual, we’re not going to make a call about the Ohio State – Penn State game, safe to say that the Lions better stop out-of-the-pocket quarterback Terrelle Pryor, or it’s going to be a long frickin’...
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