Financial Data 'on Steroids'

Financial Data 'on Steroids'

August 20, 2008, 9:02 am
WASHINGTON POST : In the realm of quarterly filings, David Blaszkowsky takes the long view. He's quick to mention that the earliest form of record keeping was on tablets in the ancient Middle Eastern civilization of Sumer. Now, he says, the financial world is about to discover yet a new way... READ MORE
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The Great Lobster Mystery

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Lobster - London Bridge, London, England - Friday 7th September 2007 | law_keven | Flickr
August 20, 2008, 8:05 am
SLATE : Thanks to rampant inflation, this has been a summer of discontent for foodies, who have been forced to swap precious imported cheeses for Monterey Jack and to downscale barbecues from sirloin to skirt steak. But as I discovered on a recent Maine vacation, there's at least one high-end food product whose price is falling this year: lobster... READ MORE

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Cinema stole my favourite books

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Old cinema | urbanlegend | Flickr
August 20, 2008, 10:40 am
GUARDIAN/BLOGS : As Morrissey once opined, we hate it when our friends become successful. Well, some of us also hate it when our favourite books become successful movies. Can there be anything worse than lovingly engaging with a couple of hundred thousand words of prose over perhaps two or three weeks... READ MORE

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Matthew Mintz: As psychiatry goes, so will primary care

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Outside of the Psychiatrists Call Room | Sam Blackman | Flickr
August 20, 2008, 8:02 am
KEVIN, MD - MEDICAL WEBLOG : Despite being mentioned on ABC News, and the medical blogosphere, the recent study in the Archives of General Psychiatry that shows psychiatrists are less likely to use "couch" therapy hasn't garnered the attention it deserves... READ MORE

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World's farmers turn to raw sewage for irrigation

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Irrigation | jotor | Flickr
August 20, 2008, 8:00 am
NEW SCIENTIST : The future may not smell too rosy – it may lie in sewage. As cities and industries suck up ever more of the world’s scarce water resources... READ MORE

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Clean coal gets the green light

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Coals | rankingranqueen | Flickr
August 20, 2008, 7:59 am
THE AUSTRALIAN : The world's first laws to allow companies to capture carbon dioxide emissions from power stations and bury them under the seabed are under consideration in Canberra... READ MORE

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What's the point of literary agents?

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My book shelf | Phing. | Flickr
August 19, 2008, 6:42 pm
GUARDIAN/BLOGS :Aspiring writers are frequently told that the quickest route to getting published is via an agent. Having been on the books of two, neither of whom got my book on the shelves, and then secured a contract with a publisher myself, I wonder if that's really true...READ MORE

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Kremlin 'Capitalism' Is a Threat to the West

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Kremlin y catedral de San Patricio | Sitomon | Flickr
August 20, 2008, 7:58 am
WALL STREET JOURNAL : Moscow has much more than a military threat to intimidate countries in its neighborhood. Long before its foray into Georgia, Russia was using its market strength in oil and gas resources to strong-arm its neighbors and outmaneuver the United States and the European Union... READ MORE

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Easy does it

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Town Hall on Future of Scholarship | cogdogblog | Flickr
August 19, 2008, 8:40 pm
ROUGH TYPE: NICHOLAS CARR'S BLOG : A recent edition of Science featured a worrying paper by University of Chicago sociologist James A. Evans titled Electronic Publication and the Narrowing of Science and Scholarship. Seeking to learn more about how research is conducted ... READ MORE

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Designing Monopoly

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Monopoly guys | sweetashvegas | Flickr
August 19, 2008, 6:32 pm
MARGINAL REVOLUTION : In Alabama it is illegal to recommend shades of paint without a license. In Nevada it is illegal to move any large piece of furniture for purposes of design without a license. In fact, hundreds of people have been prosecuted in Alabama ... READ MORE

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'Virtual Archaeologist' Reconnects Fragments Of An Ancient Civilization

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Historical archaeology at the old Champoeg townsite (Oregon, USA), 1973 | gbaku | Flickr
August 19, 2008, 7:57 am
SCIENCE DAILY : The new technology "has the potential to change the way people do archaeology," according to David Dobkin, the Phillip Y. Goldman '86 Professor in Computer Science and dean of the faculty at Princeton. Dobkin and fellow researchers report on their work in a paper to be presented Aug. 15 in Los Angeles at the Association of Computing Machinery's annual SIGGRAPH conference, widely considered the premier meeting in the field of computer graphics... READ MORE

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The Remains of the $1 Detroit House

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A house (HDR) | yanivba | Flickr
August 18, 2008, 4:09 pm
WWW.ZILLOWBLOG.COM :After doing a post about the home in Detroit that is listed for $1, there were some challenges that I had the wrong home. While I was 99% confident it IS the home at 8111 Traverse St, Detroit, MI, I thought I’d verify it by going to Ron French of the Detroit News, the person who originally reported the story... READ MORE

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Georgia War: A Neocon Election Ploy?

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recording official's speech | eyec@cher | Flickr
August 18, 2008, 7:59 am
THE NATION : Is it possible that this time the October surprise was tried in August, and that the garbage issue of brave little Georgia struggling for its survival from the grasp of the Russian bear was stoked to influence the US presidential election?... READ MORE

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