Friday, February 27, 2009
Obama's budget reverses Reagan (nytimes)
“The tax code will become more progressive, with relatively higher rates on the rich and relatively lower rates on the middle class and poor,” said Roberton Williams, a senior fellow at the Tax Policy Center in Washington. “This is reversing the effects of the Bush policies,” he added, and then going even further.
“The tax code will become more progressive, with relatively higher rates on the rich and relatively lower rates on the middle class and poor,” said Roberton Williams, a senior fellow at the Tax Policy Center in Washington. “This is reversing the effects of the Bush policies,” he added, and then going even further.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Just came across the spy vibe blog, which makes me want to redecorate a room into a criminal mastermind's lair (but necessarily smaller).
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Friday, February 20, 2009
The Mammoth under the parking lot (latimes)
Workers excavating an underground garage on the site of an old May Co. parking structure in Los Angeles' Hancock Park got more than just a couple hundred new parking spaces. They found the largest known cache of fossils from the last ice age, an assemblage that has flabbergasted paleontologists.
Workers excavating an underground garage on the site of an old May Co. parking structure in Los Angeles' Hancock Park got more than just a couple hundred new parking spaces. They found the largest known cache of fossils from the last ice age, an assemblage that has flabbergasted paleontologists.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Friday, February 06, 2009
Thursday, February 05, 2009
Wednesday, February 04, 2009
An excellent summary of the most recent results on climate change research at Nature (via boingboing)
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
The Impossible Project aims to bring back Polaroid instant film production, on a limited scale to serve the artistic, rather than mass market.
Impossible b.v. has been founded with the concrete aim to re-invent and re-start production of analog INTEGRAL FILM for vintage Polaroid cameras. Therefore Impossible b.v. has acquired the complete film production equipment in Enschede (NL) from Polaroid, has signed a 10-year lease agreement on the factory building; and has engaged the most experienced team of Integral Film experts worldwide.
Impossible b.v. has been founded with the concrete aim to re-invent and re-start production of analog INTEGRAL FILM for vintage Polaroid cameras. Therefore Impossible b.v. has acquired the complete film production equipment in Enschede (NL) from Polaroid, has signed a 10-year lease agreement on the factory building; and has engaged the most experienced team of Integral Film experts worldwide.
“You don’t have ‘best people’!” Mr. Stewart shouted. “You lost $27 billion! Do you live in Bizarro World?”
Wall St., A Financial Epithet, Stirs Outrage (nytimes)
Krugman on the same, also nytimes
Wall St., A Financial Epithet, Stirs Outrage (nytimes)
Krugman on the same, also nytimes
The Ultimate Hall of Shame
Apparently for those who willingly participated in the 8 year blood orgy, and are kinda proud of it.
Apparently for those who willingly participated in the 8 year blood orgy, and are kinda proud of it.
