http://www.sellingwaves.com/external/ en-us shonk@sellingwaves.com 2005-03-09T04:11:09-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html “The important thing is to get out there and do stuff. Instead of waiting to be taught, go out and learn.” 593@http://www.sellingwaves.com/external/ 2005-03-09T04:11:09-05:00 http://www.edutopia.org/magazine/ed1article.php?id=Art_1195&issue=nov_04 “Every time a friend with kids in school tells me textbooks are too generic, I think back to that moment. ‘Who writes these things?’ people ask me. I have to tell them, without a hint of irony, ‘No one.’ It’s symptomatic of the whole muddled mess that is the $4.3 billion textbook business.” 592@http://www.sellingwaves.com/external/ 2005-03-09T04:08:48-05:00 http://mocksavvy.net/?p=4 “So, what I’ve given thus far is yet another convoluted explanation of mathematical induction. The real point here is that this stuff is weird and takes some real thinking to get used to, and even then you don’t feel like you are completely comfortable with your understanding until you’ve spent some time with it.” 591@http://www.sellingwaves.com/external/ 2005-03-03T16:34:12-05:00 http://www.footballoutsiders.com/articles.php?p=2278 “The NFL is like a big respect black hole, in which all respect is sucked into a negative zone and therefore everyone feels disrespected.” 573@http://www.sellingwaves.com/external/ 2005-01-23T02:10:36-05:00 http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/2005_01_01_riverbendblog_archive.html#110466627142368992 “There are several problems. The first is the fact that, technically, we don’t know the candidates. We know the principal heads of the lists but we don’t know who exactly will be running. It really is confusing. They aren’t making the lists public because they are afraid the candidates will be assassinated.” 571@http://www.sellingwaves.com/external/ 2005-01-15T23:37:29-05:00 http://funreports.com/2005/01/10/57776.html “A male resident of Bulgaria from the town of Plovdiv hit all world records on the blood-alcohol level and stayed alive. Doctors determined that the man had drunk 9.14 pro mil of alcohol [=0.914 BAC].” 570@http://www.sellingwaves.com/external/ 2005-01-11T23:55:49-05:00 http://www.city-journal.org/html/14_4_urbanities-classics.html “I’ve noticed frequently that among middle-class party people that I’ve worked with, over the years, that there’s an idea that workers will accept anything, providing the message is OK. The quality doesn’t matter, the form doesn’t matter. All that matters is that we agree on the correct slogans.” 569@http://www.sellingwaves.com/external/ 2005-01-10T21:25:29-05:00 http://rights.journalspace.com/ Like Beck, my only response was hysterical laughter. 568@http://www.sellingwaves.com/external/ 2005-01-10T21:19:28-05:00 http://www.mises.org/blog/archives/002939.asp "So, apparently, women don't have the right to freedom of association, since if they get pregnant, they can't leave abusive husbands." 565@http://www.sellingwaves.com/external/ 2005-01-08T14:39:53-05:00 http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20041230.html “We don’t need governments and huge sensor arrays to warn people on the beach about the next huge wave approaching at 400 miles-per-hour. Thanks to the Internet, we can probably do it by ourselves.” 564@http://www.sellingwaves.com/external/ 2005-01-07T04:22:57-05:00 http://enews.tufts.edu/stories/041204TheBuzzOnBeer.htm “And protecting bones may not be the only health benefit of beer. Another recent study found that moderate consumption of dark beer – which contains antioxidants that help prevent clogged arteries – may reduce risk of heart disease.” 558@http://www.sellingwaves.com/external/ 2005-01-05T19:16:53-05:00 http://wigu.com/overcompensating/2004/11/sin-tax.html “Democracy means being crazy because of demons!” 557@http://www.sellingwaves.com/external/ 2005-01-05T19:14:55-05:00 http://www.sacbee.com/content/opinion/national/barry/story/11716776p-12605022c.html “Well listen up, ‘Department of Commerce,’ and listen good: I have no idea what was in my federal tax return. Like 93 percent of all U.S. taxpayers, I just sign it and send it in. For all I know, it states that I am a professional squid wrangler.” 544@http://www.sellingwaves.com/external/ 2004-12-19T03:43:43-05:00 http://www.asimovs.com/Nebulas03/Lobsters.shtml “Let me get this straight. You’re the KGB’s core AI, but you’re afraid of a copyright infringement lawsuit over your translator semiotics?” Manfred pauses in mid-stride, narrowly avoids being mown down by a GPS-guided roller-blader. 540@http://www.sellingwaves.com/external/ 2004-12-16T19:45:00-05:00 http://www.antiwar.com/jeremy/?articleid=4144 “Stuff [the troops] in American Airlines coach and send ‘em back to their South Bronx slum and their subsidized Appalachian farm. If they don’t like that, ditch their asses in the desert.” 536@http://www.sellingwaves.com/external/ 2004-12-13T22:25:54-05:00