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Quarter end! Wow. Doesn't seem like that long ago it was New Year's, and I had just restarted blogging... And tomorrow is April Fool's, the annual silly season on the web where you can't believe anything you read (to an even larger extent than usual :) Looking at history, four years ago Google announced Gmail. That was the greatest April Fool's joke, because it wasn't a joke (so it was).
John Lott thinks The recession is a media myth. "As any economist knows, a recession is two consecutive quarters of negative growth, and we haven't even had one single quarter of negative growth reported. The economy slowed down significantly during the end of last year, but that was after a sizzling annual GDP growth rate of 4.9 percent in the third quarter." He could be right. On the other hand, the credit crunch and precipitous fall in housing prices are not myths.
Tim Oren wonders Is Vista is Microsoft's Micro Channel? I think it is worse than that; Vista is Microsoft's OS/2. So I have a request; could we have a way to indicate when a link takes you to a page with an embedded video, instead of a page you can read? I have little patience for watching video and generally avoid it, but nowadays it seems like half the links on the web are to video. Anyway thanks in advance :) Finally, Keith Kaplan reports researchers at Stanford have identified a specific pattern of brain activity which occurs when listening to the B-52s. Tune Channel Z (vid)! I am not making this up. |
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