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Less is more department: Programmer Jean GrosJean (why do I want to write Jean ValJean?) writes: WriteRoom — Distraction free writing software for your Mac : For people who enjoy the simplicity of a typewriter, but live in the digital world. WriteRoom is a distraction free writing environment. Unlike the cluttered word processors you’re used to, WriteRoom lets you focus on writing.
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Recommended Software: WriteRoom
Will Wilkinson: Cash for Clunkers Paul Krugman: The Big Hate Atul Gawande: University of Chicago Medical School Commencement Address Rohan Maitzen: Kate Bush, “Wuthering Heights”; Loreena McKennitt, “The Lady of Shalott” Hedwig and the Angry Inch Does Plato’s Aristophanes from the Symposium: The Origin of Love Daniel Davies: I really really hate dynamic programming Daniel Davies: In Praise of Generalized Non-Parametric Deconvolution Faiz Shakir: Boehner: Republicans ‘took it in the shorts with Bush-Cheney.’ Tim Fernholz: Compare and Contrast: Economic Policy Edition Dr. George F.
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Today, across the United States, the last regular analog television broadcasts are being shut off and by tonight all over-the-air television will only be in a digital format (with a handful of special exceptions for rural areas). Most of the press coverage today has focused on the relatively small number of people who watch TV over the airwaves yet haven’t purchased digital converter boxes. However, the real story is the opportunity it offers providers to deliver faster mobile broadband and other advanced personalized services while leveraging new business opportunties in the Zettabyte era
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End of an Era – Analog Television Yields to Digital
As you may have recently read in the Wall Street Journal, Cisco was honored to have been recognized as a 2009 AT&T Supplier Award winner for outstanding performance and service to AT&T Business Solutions during the past year. We look at this as a big deal since AT&T selected only six suppliers from more than 5,000 in the AT&T supply chain. It’s an even bigger deal for us in that it’s the sixth consecutive year Cisco or the former Scientific-Atlanta have won an AT&T Supplier Award, which proves to us that our efforts to achieve high marks with such a prominent customer are continuing to resonate
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Cisco Recognized as Outstanding AT&T Supplier
Over at the Financial Times, the careful, insightful, and highly intelligent Martin Wolf writes: FT.com / Columnists / Martin Wolf – Rising government bond rates prove policy works : Is the US… on the road to fiscal Armageddon? Are recent jumps in government bond rates proof that investors are worried about fiscal prospects
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(Small) Interest Rate Increases Are Good News, Not Bad News (Washington Post Crashed-and-Burned-and-Smoking Watch)
Iranians are casting their votes in the most closely-fought presidential election in several years.
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Iranians vote in close presidential election – 12 June 09
Ed Hugh: Brad Setser Need Be Curious No Longer: China’s exports fell by a record in May Peter Groenwegen: Thomas Carlyle, ‘The Dismal Science’, and the Contemporary Political Economy of Slavery Rothstein: Preventing Markets from Self-Destruction: The Quality of Government Factor Bernanke (2002): Deflation: Making Sure “It” Doesn’t Happen Here Elizabeth Warren et al.: Assessing Treasury’s Strategy: Six Months of TARP Gene Steuerle: Why CBO Won’t Credit Congress for Reducing Health Costs Acemoglu: Introduction to Modern Economic Growth Paul Kedrosky: What is This ‘Lehman’ Incident of Which You Speak? CBO (March 20, 2009): A Preliminary Analysis of the President’s Budget and an Update of CBO’s Budget and Economic Outlook Martin Wolf: Rising government bond rates prove policy works Jo Walton: The Net of a Million Lies: Vernor Vinge’s A Fire Upon the Deep Kathy Sierra: Creating Passionate Users Joey Devilla: Fast Food Apple Pies and Why Netbooks Suck — The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century Matthew Yglesias: How Bipartisan Do You Want
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Articles A Formal Model in Hayekian Macroeconomics: The Proportional Goods-in-Process Structure of Production by Renaud Fillieule Austrian Elements of Structuralist Unemployment Theory? by Guido Zimmermann Toward a Clarification of the Block-Demsetz Debate on Psychic Income and Externalities by Michael Brooks Apriorism, Introspection, and the Axiom of Action: A Realist Solution by François Facchini Book Reviews Econospinning: How to Read Between the Lines When the Media Manipulate the Numbers .
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QJAE Archive–Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 10, no. 3 (Fall 2007)
It was just a short time ago that I was on SP360 writing about cloud services and the impact it will have on the SP services market . This was in reference to the launch of Cisco’s Unified Service Delivery solution , and cloud computing certainly is one of the main topics that Cisco is aiming to address with USD. But that’s not the only area I’m looking at with USD.
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Experience Provider Mega Test & Unified Service Delivery
Winter Haven to be home to USF Polytechnic technology business accelerator. In a memo distributed today, June 12, to the Mayor and City Commisioners, City of Winter Haven Community Development Director David Dickey announced the following information: In April 2009, the Polk County Commission, in conjunction with the Central Florida Development Council, earmarked $1 million in funding to help establish a high-tech business incubator to be located on the USF Polytechnic campus.
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Winter Haven CRA and 6/10 Corporation Partner for Technology Accelerator
Adam Serwer asks: TAPPED Archive : I think Paul Campos’ response to the shooting at the Holocaust Memorial Museum yesterday is worth pondering…. Michelle Malkin wrote an entire book defending the internment on the basis of race in the case of Japanese internment during World War II. Cliff May argued that torture is justified against Muslims because they’re Muslim
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We Need to Be Who We Can Be–and That Means We Need to Not Listen to the LIkes of Thomas Friedman and Richard Cohen
By Edward Hugh: Barcelona Earlier this week Brad Setser was opining on his blog : “Like everyone else, I am curious to see what China’s May trade data tells us. If China truly is going to lead the global recovery, China needs to import more – and not just import more commodities for its (growing) strategic stockpiles.” Well Brad need restrain his curiosity no longer, since just this very morning we have learnt that: China’s exports fell by a record in May as the global recession cut demand for goods produced by the world’s third-largest economy
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China’s Imports and Global Recovery – Brad Setser Need Be Curious No Longer
Neil Buchanan: The 2009 Social Security Trustees’ Report: Good News Behind the Headlines Ali Frick: Fox News’ Shep Smith: DHS Report Was A ‘Warning To Us All,’ But ‘The Right Went Absolutely Bonkers’ Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Commenters on Sotomayor, Brooks, and Sullivan Robert Waldmann’s Theory on Income Distribution and Infant Mortality Diane Lim Rogers: What’s Not So Great About Obama’s Proposal to Pay As He Goes David Leonhardt: How the U.S. Surplus Became a Deficit Tyler Cowen: My talk on economics for university administrators Posner, Part II: What Now
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The backdrop behind the front desk in the lobby of IAC’s Chelsea headquarters shows glittering lights on a world map, each one signaling a visit to one of the company’s websites—more than 835 million across its network in April from roughly 194 million uniques, according to comScore ( NSDQ: SCOR ). Use a blue wheel and you can see a specific site: search engine Ask, Citysearch, Match.com, ServiceMagic, virtual worlds Zwinky and GirlSense, Daily Beast and more. But not as many as there were before IAC ( NSDQ: IACI ) spun into five pieces, leaving this version a more manageable size with only 35 or so brands
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Interview: Part II: Barry Diller: ‘The Business Model For Content Is To Be Paid For It’
While the London G20 Summit represented a step towards a more inclusive global governance system, further institutional reforms are badly needed to ensure the interests of low-income countries are adequately represented, according to national leaders and other participants gathered at this year’s World Economic Forum on Africa in Cape Town. In particular, they urged the major industrialized countries to accept long-stalled changes in the governing structures of the IMF and the World Bank. “A critical lesson from the current crisis is the need for a transformed global financial system,” Jacob Zuma, President of South Africa, said in his opening address
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World Economic Forum on Africa opens with call for global governance reforms
I had the chance to chat with Governor Deval Patrick for a few minutes today at Microsoft’s NERD Center, toward the end of the Innovate MassTech meeting (aka the IT Collaborative Study Group Meeting.) So I asked him about non-competes. Paul Sagan, the CEO of Akamai, had just said on stage that he is in favor of keeping non-compete agreements legal and enforceable in Massachusetts, and that he’d seen no data that says that non-competes have any effect on making us less competitive
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Gov. Patrick on Non-Compete Agreements in Massachusetts
Carlo A. Favero IGIER-Bocconi University The financial crisis and the recent fluctuations in the stock market have prompted investors to ask the question “Are stocks still the best investment for the long run?” Figure 1 reports the value over time in real terms (nominal returns are deflated by the inflation of the Consumer Price Index) of 1 dollar in 1900. 1 dollar invested in the SP index at the beginning of the twentieth century has risen rather steadily to 800 times the initial value at the end of the century and it has then fluctuated to reach 500 hundred times the initial value at the end of 2008.
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Stocks for the long-run?
Megan: Jezebel – Op-Ed Writer: Pro-Choicers Have George Tiller’s Blood On Their Hands – Ross douthat late term abortion : I’m starting to suspect that the New York Times is giving increasingly ill-considered and poorly written conservatives column space in an effort to undermine the idea that Republican ideology has any intellectual validity. Otherwise, I don’t really see what the papers’ editors are thinking, between hiring neocon idiot Bill Kristol and then replacing him with slut-shaming, supposedly new-idea-having former Atlantic blogger Ross Douthat
In between favorites like WWII documentaries , Modern Marvels , and Gangland , the History channel occasionally dabbles in supernatural themed programming. Normally, shows like Monster Quest make me change the channel about as fast as Designing Women. This time however, History will be taking on one of the more colorful incidents of desi-themed hysteria in recent times – no, not Sanjaya but close, the New Delhi Monkey Man – Engrained in the history and mythology of India are tales of a ferocious creature, half-man, half-ape.
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The Monkey Man Cometh
From SCOTUS Blog: Court clears Chrysler sale Ending four days of intense, round-the-clock and high-stakes legal maneuvering in the Supreme Court, the Justices on Tuesday evening removed a legal obstacle to sale of the troubled auto industry giant, Chrysler. Insisting that it was denying a postponement “in this case alone,” the two-page order said the challengers had not met their burden of showing that a delay was justified. The order allows a closing of the deal as of next Monday, because it lifts a temporary stay that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had issued on Monday, apparently to give the Court time to ponder the issue
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Supreme Court Lifts Stay on Chrysler Deal
Title: Modern Theories of Political Economy Prerequisites: Completion of PE 100 and IAS 45 are required before students can register for the course. Sequence: Students intending to become Political Economy majors will ideally complete PE 101 by the end of their sophomore year. Objectives: PE 101 examines modern approaches to the interaction between economics and politics–what in an earlier age would have been called “moral philosophy.” Building on the knowledge of world history covered in IAS 45 and the thinkers of the classical political economy tradition covered in PE 100, it focuses on the usefulness of alternative theories of political economy, both the classical theories covered in PE 100 and the modern theories of the 20th and 21st centuries in the their historical context
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Berkeley Political Economy 101: Reference Document SECOND DRAFT
Today’s Daily Angle comes from Andrew Snyder of Wikinvest Wire blog Contrarian Profits . Read the full article on the Contrarian Profits Blog Flash Player 9 or higher is required to view the chart Click here to download Flash Player now View the full PALM chart at Wikinvest The cell phone industry is making big moves. Palm’s new phone release is taking its share price down. While speculation over Steve Jobs and the iPhone is creating its own problems for Apple .
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Smart Phones, Smart Investments
2 minute video – client feedback on Propozition and the value Propozition’s involvement added to their bids and competitive tenders.
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Propozition – are we any good?
By Edward Hugh: Barcelona Well, I am busying myself this morning scratching around looking for green shoots in Turkey . But even as I was digging for these I couldn’t help notice this coming in over the radar from Germany, courtesy of Bloomberg : German exports fell more than economists forecast in April as the global crisis restrained demand, keeping Europe’s largest economy mired in a recession. Sales abroad, adjusted for working days and seasonal changes, fell 4.8 percent from March, when they rose a revised 0.3 percent, the Federal Statistics Office in Wiesbaden said today.
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Green Shoots In Germany and Estonia?
Icelandic Prime Minister Geir Haarde’s resignation on January 23rd of this year marked the first political casualty of the current financial crisis. While the Icelandic situation has received scant attention relative to other calamities reverberating through the world’s financial markets, the source of Iceland’s woes can be found in many of the same locales. FULL ARTICLE
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Iceland’s Banking Crisis: The Meltdown of an Interventionist Financial System