Friday, May 10, 2013

When similar inputs produce radically different outputs -- more on Kickster

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[Following up  this ] Ken Levine has a follow-up to his widely-read post on the Kickstarter campaigns of Zach Braff and Rob Thomas (crea...
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Thursday, May 9, 2013

Paul Ryan's Coonskin Cap

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Davy Crockett may have been the first great American political fabrication. He really was a woodsman and guide of note and, though the...
Wednesday, May 8, 2013

The hidden costs of being a "fun company"

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I was listening to the radio while stuck on the 405 today and I found myself experiencing some corporate Déjà vu courtesy of the good people...

Favoring the favored

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This post by television writer Ken Levine (MASH, Cheers, Frasier, and many other shows) appears to have gone viral. Deservedly. He makes ex...

Movie lover alert

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Check out what Google did for Saul Bass's 93rd birthday. (also available on  YouTube  if you miss the 24 hour window.)
Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Tale of two ad campaigns

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[I've been meaning to write more about the business approaches of terrestrial superstations  for a while now though I didn't mean to...
Monday, May 6, 2013

Rich versus poor

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It was interesting to go from reading this piece on the lives of the urban poor to this piece from Felix Salmon .  I had not previously hea...

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You know how, if you keep repeating the same word long enough it will eventually start to become meaningless? Over at Unqualified Offerings,...

"Segregated lives"

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I've been thinking a lot about social and economic distance and what seems to be the increasing difficulty with which information travel...
Sunday, May 5, 2013

How many people today would refer to 2001 as our "historical yesterdays"?

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Back on the decelerating future beat , here's Owen Wister's introduction to the Virginian in 1902. TO THE READER Certain of the...
Saturday, May 4, 2013

Weekend Blogging -- Puzzles! Puzzles! Puzzles!

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As soon as I get caught up with a few other projects, I'm planning a regular classic puzzle feature over at my math teaching blog, You D...
Friday, May 3, 2013

Sleazy but not atypical

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More on bad narratives and the lengths some journalists will go to cling to them. To talk about bad journalistic narratives implies that t...

One hell of a multiplier

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A small data point on the very big story of states using tax incentives to attract businesses. I was researching a post on an article on fil...

Oregon and Medicaid

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The new Oregon Medicaid study is coming out at a very bad time for me to comment.  But I want to direct you to the Incidental Economist whi...
Thursday, May 2, 2013

It's too late for me to think of a sufficiently sarcastic title

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I've always had a problem with Ken Rudin. I assume that, at some point he must have done some good work to get where he is, but I'm ...