I recently came across a paper by economist Hammad Siddiqi, The Social Norm of Leaving the Toilet Seat Down that uses game theory to describe the efficiency of the toilet seat position strategies normally preferred by men or women. Men in their own habitat will usually prefer to leave the…
3As identity theft has grown to staggering proportions in the United States over the past 10 years or more I have been horrified at the willful corporate negligence that allows this to happen at all. Why does identity theft exist? One simple reason: Lenders are willing to grant a line…
http://www.mercola.com/2002/apr/17/cattle1.htm
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/lind1.html
http://www.thestranger.com/2004-05-27/feature.html
http://slate.msn.com/id/2100064/
I just came accross this great short essay entitled, “In Praise of the Bicycle”.Excerpts: …Man on his feet is thermodynamically more efficient than any motorized vehicle and most animals. For his weight, he performs more work in locomotion than rats or oxen, less than horses or sturgeon. …The bicycle is…
A nice essay on moral fashions by Paul Graham, author of several books on the programming language, Lisp: http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html This essay is about heresy: how to think forbidden thoughts, and what to do with them. The latter was till recently something only a small elite had to think about. Now…
In lovely news this week, the Memory Hole has noticed that Time magazine has pulled an article by Bush, Sr. on why it was a bad idea to try and overthrow Saddam: http://www.thememoryhole.org/mil/bushsr-iraq.htm I just love how things like this “happen to dissapear” soon after they start to be referenced….
