Sunday Reading
Glam ad network cuts payments to publisher partners, coincidentally right after raising a buttload of capital. They need to cut costs to meet their promises to investors; now that they’ve raised the capital, they don’t need to keep their blogger contributors happy anymore, and they’ll soon be able to buy some of those blogs on the cheap, since many were dependent on the network for income!
John McCain is the New “Bagdad Bob.”
Why pollsters are flummoxed over Clinton and Obama.
From the Telegraph (UK), English will disappear and be replaced by “Panglish” in 100 years.
The above headline is posted about 121 years after Esperanto was created with the goal of becoming a “universal second language.” Between 0.00167% to 0.033% of the world’s population speaks Esperanto today.
You can now pre-order a copy of the War Nerd Book.
How NOT to write American history. The concepts really apply to all histories, however.
Zimbabwe’s opposition said Sunday that it had won the most crucial election since independence, but President Robert Mugabe’s government warned its opponents that premature victory claims would amount to an attempted coup.
From the Moscow Times, on why we should fear a McCain Presidency.
Mindless, time-wasting games! Get the drunk home, and then deal with his hangover!
Dogwood backtests a swing-trading system. Just remember that ROI doesn’t equal ROE …


March 31st, 2008 at 12:12 am
http://www.amazon.com/Peoples-History-United-States-Present/dp/0060838655/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1206940252&sr=8-1
On history books, what do you think of this one, if you’ve heard of it? (My engineer boyfriend, he did a history minor, and it’s floating around our house right now.)
March 31st, 2008 at 6:31 am
I’ll take a look, may be a couple of days, this week is packed!
April 4th, 2008 at 6:59 am
I hadn’t heard of it before your mention, but I took a browse through the excerpts and some of the references made to it on other sites with a similar historical-economic outlook to mine, and find it interesting. It seems to do a good job of presenting underlying economic motivations for history, and to undo much of the whitewashing that most students learn in “history” class.
Seriously considering ordering a copy for myself ..