December 2011
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“In the September 2008 meeting at which Paulson and Bernanke briefed lawmakers on...”
– Bloomberg
Need a Course So That You Don’t Molest Kids? →
Gene Callahan:
And just who is going to be willing to spend the time to take this course? Is it worth taking it to run in the locker room the one or two times a season when your daughter is dawdling? Of course not. But you know what sort of person would be happy to spend the time taking such a course, in order to gain access to locker rooms where adolescents are naked? Think about it.
What Is College For? →
Gary Gutting:
Teaching is not a matter of (as we too often say) “making a subject (poetry, physics, philosophy) interesting” to students but of students coming to see how such subjects are intrinsically interesting. It is more a matter of students moving beyond their interests than of teachers fitting their subjects to interests that students already have. Good teaching does not make a...
Nerdfight! →
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Five Bullshit Things About David Stern’s Bullshit... →
Tommy Craggs:
The owners’ bullshit fear was further stoked by the bullshit specter of Chris Paul strong-arming his way to a perennially successful franchise of his choosing. This is bullshit because the NBA owners created their own bogeyman. Their bullshit lockout of 1998-99 was about controlling maximum salaries, which kept star players from getting paid their full value. Once bullshit...
Recent Developments in Full Disclosure →
Bruce Schneier:
It’s easy to believe that if only people wouldn’t disclose problems, we could pretend they didn’t exist, and everything would be better.
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Security requires transparency and disclosure, and if we willingly give that up, we’re a lot less safe as a society.
Can Anyone Out There Talk About Tim Tebow Without... →
Tommy Craggs:
I’ve said all along that the backlash against Tebow is really a backlash against the way Tebow gets covered in the media. This smarmy little paragraph is as good an example as you’ll find. I mean, who needs St. Thomas Aquinas when you have the Broncos’ five-game winning streak, right?
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Cutting their own throats →
Charles Stross—who has rather a big personal stake in the health of the publishing industry—on DRM:
In the past I’ve muttered and grumbled about the evils of DRM for a variety of reasons. But now, I’ve got a feeling that there’s a more important reason for griping: the strategy of demanding DRM everywhere is going to boomerang, inflicting horrible damage on the very companies...