Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Cracked takes on AirBNB

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For a wide range of business models, the advent of the Internet and smartphones greatly reduced barriers to entry, transaction costs , and t...
Tuesday, August 30, 2016

There's always Ann Coulter.. No,wait. Strike that.

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The relationship between the nominally liberal mainstream press (exemplified by the New York Times)  and the GOP is an enormously complex st...
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Monday, August 29, 2016

The logical result of an illogical policy

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[I plan to come back when I have more time and fill in some detail, but for now I think the short version does have a certain pithy quality....
Friday, August 26, 2016

Déjà vu all over again

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At the risk of repeating myself ... Check out these two ads. Here's what the Clinton campaign released this week. And he...
Thursday, August 25, 2016

Adam's back

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With the perfect topic for my last week in the Studio City adjacent section of North Hollywood.
Wednesday, August 24, 2016

When I have time I need to come back to this

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This observation from Paul Krugman is both accurate and important: But most of all, this kind of punditry, while ostensibly praising the...
Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Light posting for a awhile

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Light posting for the nest day or two due to a well-timed move. I say the timing was good because, starting a week ago, this was the view fr...
Monday, August 22, 2016

College Humor -- "If Internet Ads Were Salesmen "

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I keep meaning to do a post about the terrible state of targeted marketing. When I get around to it, remind me to embed this. At least half ...
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Friday, August 19, 2016

What a 12-year-old in the early Fifties expected the 21st Century to look like

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The year was 1951, the Publisher was Ziff-Davis, the artist was Murphy Anderson, and the improbable title was "Lars of Mars."...
Thursday, August 18, 2016

The back of the queue is packed; front is almost empty -- updated

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Busy, busy days (details to follow), but we can always count on the Trump's campaign for something to pass the time. For someth...
Wednesday, August 17, 2016

If James Whitmore were alive alive he'd be booked solid

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I don't want to get too deeply into this (we have too many threads running already) but Ken Levine (Writer/director/producer of may ...
Tuesday, August 16, 2016

New article

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This is Joseph Here is an interesting article on Education Reform  that might be worth looking at.  One of the authors should be familiar ...
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I grew up with a lot of Trae Crowders

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And they're still easier to find than you might think.
Monday, August 15, 2016

Test-based education reform -- when a means to an end becomes the end itself

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From 11-year-old Peyton Mears: From Valerie Strauss writing for the Washington Post [emphasis added]: In Florida (you knew it was...
Friday, August 12, 2016

Sad

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When someone makes the inevitable movie of this campaign, they should make sure to include Trump tweets in the scene breaks. These 140 chara...