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linkage: 11.02.2006

"if you control for inflation and quality, Shiller found, real home prices barely budged between the eighteen-nineties and the nineteen-nineties. The idea that housing prices have nowhere to go but up is, in other words, a statistical illusion."

slate: can you really save the planet at the dinner table?:

"Pollan's book becomes less satisfying, however, when he sets out to answer the question: How should a responsible person eat in the modern world?"

o'reilly radar: What VCs Learned from Odeo and YouTube:

"Looking out across recent wins, you don't see all-star proven teams. You see scrappy entrepreneurs long on ideas and enthusiasm, but short on actual management experience like those at Facebook, Digg, Flickr, etc."

asia society: Asia and the Emerging Global Financial System:

"There is no economic theory that suggests that borrowing a trillion dollars at an increasing rate is a permanently sustainable strategy."

bbc news: Bearded drinkers lose out:

"Almost �500,000 worth of Ireland's world famous stout is lost each year in the moustaches and beards of imbibers of the creamy headed black stuff."

This Blog Sits at the Intersection of Anthropology and Economics: Katie Couric and celebrity that is bundled not blended:

"It is a larger anthropological question why it is our day time personality should have to be approachable and nightime newsreaders austere. Perhaps, we suppose that the "vessel" of nighttime news must be stout enough to withstand the emotional difficulty and moral horror contained in many newscasts. Perhaps its a simpler sexism that says that news reading at night is a kind of rhetorical heavy lifting and to this extent "men's work.""

Benjamin Franklin, Advice to a Young Man on the Choice of a Mistress (1745).:

"But if you will not take this Counsel, and persist in thinking a Commerce with the Sex inevitable, then I repeat my former Advice, that in all your Amours you should prefer old Women to young ones. "

treehugger: Biodiesel Grows To Commodity Status:

"In whose interest is it to indicate a short-term price fall off projection that does not accommodate the potential demand created by the new, highly efficient and relatively clean diesel designs?"

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...[T]he Web log reflects our own attempts to assimilate the glut of immaterial data loosed upon us by the "discovery" of the networked world. And there are surely lessons for us in the parallel. For just as the cabinet of wonders took centuries to evolve into the more orderly, logically crystalline museum, so it may be a while before the chaos of the Web submits to any very tidy scheme of organization.”

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