Archive for the ‘Entertainment’ Category
Thursday, November 20th, 2008 by BH
Star Wars fan fiction is fairly easy to to find online, but fan fiction written by celebrities is even rarer. Recently, actor and Original Trilogy Star Wars fan Simon Pegg writes this tale featuring Bail Organa, Shaak Ti, Mon Mothma, Kazdan Paratus, Rahm Kota, Obi-Wan Kenobi and a holo-transmission of ...
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Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 by BH
If you actually watch the debate, instead of Project Runway, you might enjoy playing a little drinking game. Every time Senator McCain says "my friends," take a drink. If you are still alive after his introductory remarks then you are the winner. There is no need for any other rules ...
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Monday, October 13th, 2008 by BH
Gawker has 20 clips from 20 movies about life during the Great Depression.
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Monday, October 13th, 2008 by BH
Via the Curious Capitalist:
When last I checked, the Dow was up 6.9% and the S&P 7.5% in reaction to Paul Krugman getting the economics Nobel before trading began this morning. In London the FTSE ended the trading day up 8.26% and in Frankfurt the DAX was up 11.4%.
This is just ...
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Sunday, September 14th, 2008 by BH
Is worth watching. It's got some room to improve, but all in all it's already one of the best shows. If you missed last week's pilot, you can watch it free online (Fox).
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 by BH
A great thing about the ukulele is how easy it is to learn, said Warren Buffett, the Berkshire Hathaway chairman, who started playing in college. “You can learn how to play it very quickly, even if only badly, as in my case,” he wrote in an e-mail message. “It takes ...
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Saturday, August 16th, 2008 by BH
After reading a few posts on BPS, which I linked to below, I followed a link to Research Blogging, a site devoted to academic blog posts about peer-reviewed research articles. Yeah, I did all this on a Saturday. Anyway, the second post caught my eye since it was about running ...
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008 by BH
John Timmer at ars technica discusses results from a report by the Communications Workers of America (ars):
The median broadband user in the States is getting about 2.3mbps and uploading at 435kbps. That compares pretty unfavorably to some of the industrialized Asian nations, where the median download speed is 63mbps, or ...
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Monday, August 4th, 2008 by BH
My graduate adviser just sent this to me. She is evil. Sigh. Back to work.
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Saturday, July 12th, 2008 by BH
So far Pandora Radio is great. The only downside is that you cannot listen to music if you leave the program, so you cannot read the news while listening to the radio, but that is a small complaint. cnet has much more on Pandora. Other apps vary considerably. I just ...
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 by BH
The vanishing middle class in S.F. (SF Chronicle)
Richard Epstein on the habeas corpus decision (NYT).
The Tort War rages on (NYT).
Peter L. Bernstein on the recent financial turmoil (NYT).
The copyright laws are broken, Canadian edition (Calgary Herald).
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Saturday, April 26th, 2008 by BH
Poor rice yields are not the major problem. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that global rice production increased by 1 percent last year and says that it is expected to increase 1.8 percent this year. That’s not impressive, but it shouldn’t cause starvation.
The more telling figure is ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008 by CJB
I think in today's society people read more news and factual (nonfiction) books than in days/decades/centuries past. Maybe my assumption is wrong, but let's (this apostrophe "s" is for you AR) go with it anyway. Is this a good thing or a bad thing for society or for the individuals partaking ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 by BH
In defense of Starbucks. Funny and informative.
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 by BH
Words of wisdom (HT):
People assume that if you're not actually sitting with a book in your lap, you're not really reading. Whereas most of what people are doing online is reading. Sending text messages or sitting with a magazine or a comic is reading. There are all kinds of reading, ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 by CJB
It is becoming increasingly common for employers to block various sites either due to productivity issues or because of bandwidth issues. I think it is difficult to argue against blocking sites that are taking up a huge portion of a company's bandwidth, costing significant amounts of money, and having virtually ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 by BH
Sadly for me, I am only allowed to use Internet Explorer 6 at work. Yeah, I don't even have IE7 yet. But when I'm not chained to my work computer, I use Firefox. Here is a fun look at Mozilla's offices. They are way nicer than our offices and we are clearly ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008 by BH
Since many of you click on our about page eager for more infromation about us, I thought I would share a bit about my co-blogger, CJB, since he's the pretty one everyone always asks about. To better understand him, check out this video, and you will get a sense of ...
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 by BH
It's still about economics, so don't get too excited. Anyway, here is a list of academic papers based on the Simpsons. (HT) It trends generally towards the humanities, with a few exceptions. Unfortunately it missed a great article by economist Joshua Hall, a professor at Beloit College and blogger at ...
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 by BH
-5, no -8. Can't Business Week just fire her already? Or is the bad publicity just good publicity before her book comes out? At any rate, I'd like to see someone ask the genius behind Facebook how old he was when the internet was created. Oh, yeah, she did that. Seriously, that ...
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