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James Surowiecki, editor of the New Yorker’s financial page, has an article on Slate defending the Pentagon’s proposed Policy Analysis Market.
The PAM project was canceled the day it was announced due to strong objections from the Senate and media criticism. But once pundits were able to reflect on the plan, it actually seems like a […]

Adam Safran might not be a shoe-in for the Democratic ticket, but at least he has a great campaign staff. There’s Jennifer, a 28-year-old receptionist at a veterinarian hospital. Olivia, a recent high school graduate, already runs her own talk show for politically active youth. My favorite is Christian Dylan. At just 11 years old, […]

The Saturnine Detractor is the new publication from U of C alums and seniors, including Andy, Whet and Pete.

The Saturnine Detractor is an online magazine featuring journalism of a narrative variety, reviews, opinion, fiction, and artwork. There are three people named Tom affiliated with this first issue of The Saturnine Detractor. They all have dark […]

MCI Faces Federal Fraud Inquiry on Fees for Long-Distance Calls:

The central element of MCI’s scheme, people involved in the inquiry said, consisted of disguising long-distance calls as local calls to avoid paying special access tariffs to local carriers across the country.

“Everyone understood that we were stiffing Bell Atlantic, but I did not consider whether […]

October report said defeated Hussein would be a greater threat:

“Declassified portions of a still-secret National Intelligence Estimate (NEI) released Friday by the White House show that at the time of the president’s speech the U.S. intelligence community judged that possibility [that Hussein assist al Qaeda] to be unlikely. In fact, the NIE, which began circulating […]

GameSpot reviews Real Life:

Volumes have already been written about real life, the most accessible and most widely accepted massively multiplayer online role-playing game to date. Featuring believable characters, plenty of lasting appeal, and a lot of challenge and variety, real life is absolutely recommendable to those who’ve grown weary of all the cookie-cutter games that […]

Last night I watch Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. Holy crap, what an excellent show. I watched it with Katie, whose boss at the Art Institute of Chicago is friends with Ted Allen, the food & wine connoisseur. I liked his character because he was the least flamboyant of the gay guys […]

These are very uncertain times, less certain than previous times when we certainly took more for granted. But we want to assure you that information contained on this site is backed up by the latest snooping technologies on our trillion-dollar communications infrastructure. So, if we told you that the British told us that Iraq tried […]

Meerkats are cool. I want a meerkat. You know what’s also cool? Poker AI. And Crooked Timber, my source.
What! Elyse a “hipster poseur”? You suck!
Other things that suck include this site.
Hello weekend.

Daring Fireball has never disappointed me. Hooray for independent online publishers.
PS, I am awesome.

I was just chatting with Evelyn on AIM Express. From the hilariously frustrating transcript below, you’ll see that AIM Express sometimes drops messages.
Note also that AIM Express doesn’t let you select text, so I made this huge image instead.