The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

Dell computers have some smart cookies working out their pricing policies. They've (correctly) estimated that a very large proportion of...

The worst mistakes are the ones you don't realise you're making. The most poignant mistakes are the ones that you don't realise ...

You have to be both a chemist and skeptic of government policy (which I know applies to at least GS, and possibly others) to enjoy this one ...

The Economist has an interesting article about how a researcher is set to make a hamburger patty out of artificially grown meat - that is, ...

Actually, this isn't quite right. It's not that LA is spread out, per se. Instead, it's that the good bits of LA are not geogr...

From Steve Sailer : JUST three decades ago, Thurgood Marshall was only months away from appointment to the Supreme Court when he suffered a...

Australia's former Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, was booted out as PM during his first term by Julia Gillard. Now that she got elected (by...

Apparently if you leave your fancy Tesla Roadster unplugged long enough that the battery drains to zero, it turns into an undrivable brick ...

"Just when you think you've got it all worked out, That's probably when they'll put you in the ground." From the exce...

-Since it has been established by rigorous analysis that McDonalds restaurants tend to be the most profitable places at airports, it seems ...

No, that is is neither a typo, nor sarcasm. From the great  Frédéric Bastiat : When James B. gives a hundred pence to a Government officer...

One of the things about being an introvert (The Couch*: You're an introvert? And you write a blog ? Unheard of!) is that conversation wi...

-Headline of the Day, from Maetenloch at Ace of Spades : " Island Scandis So Inbred They Need a Website to Avoid Incest " Ha! -...

So Greece has been rioting again, as the parliament passed a set of "austerity measures" designed to combat their rampant budget d...

Marginal Revolution linked to this interesting piece in the Sacramento Bee on how the Burning Man Festival has run into lots of problems b...

Man, do hotels love  trying to get you to reduce the amount of laundry you do. It's always couched in the language of saving the environ...

Never let it be said that Britons don't appreciate irony.

-MIT at its best: students were sent their early admission letters in steel tubes, and told to 'hack' the tubes somehow. One girl de...

A long-ish quote, but I thought this summary of the broad issues of police brutality from Taki's Magazine was interesting : Dark decades...

The Obama Administration has decided to mandate that all employers have to provide birth control, including abortion-inducing drugs. This ma...

Cee-Lo Green from the Superbowl Half Time Show: 'Future Dudes', from Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. The other Cee-...

The French are determined to continue their unofficial national motto of 'Le Ass, Le Gas or Le Grass - Nobody Can Provide Stuff For Free...

The Last Psychiatrist has an interesting pair of posts covering the question of what to do if your fiancee rejects the ring you offer as not...

Last Thursday was Australia Day. As is traditional on such days, various honours are given out - the Order of Australia (Australia's equ...

...which I can report to you with a fair degree of confidence. 1. Indo Mie  brand Mi Goreng are the best instant noodles in the whole worl...

Take an average day in a first world city. You go for a walk down to a coffee shop, or to the mall, or wherever your travels take you. In ...

I have been told by not one, but two regular readers that they don't really like my posts about music. Well, stiff $#!7. Here's th...

-Why NASA needs to place an explicit value on the life of astronauts . -Why academic publishing is a scam . I agree, and I don't use t...

I was listening to a talk by this Greek girl today. I was speaking to The Greek afterwards, and asked him the following: "Hey, does t...

The Greek sent me this story from the UK Daily Mail about a girl who had to be transported to hospital after collapsing at a McDonalds . It ...

First off, I am working on fixing what I describe as the Steve Jobs problem  - that you generally agree with a lot of what someone says (or ...