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Monthly Archives: May 2010

The final evaluation

Sunday, May 30, 2010

This episode of the freakonomics podcast, on parallels between customization in schools and radio, ends with a short story about an elderly man who is introduced to Pandora while he’s on his death bed. The upshot is that the people at Pandora were able to tell the family, based on the man’s official time of [...]

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An insult to sausage factories

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Via Kids Prefer Cheese, a link to an article describing the abundance of amendments to a new 1500+ page set of financial industry regulations. It reminds me of the episode of The Simpson’s Bart’s Comet, which contains a nice bit of Congress-skewering: Of course, in reality, the bill would have passed, and there would have [...]

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