links for 2007-07-26

Grasping Reality on TypePad, by Brad DeLong

Archives Highlighted Previous Edit COVID Market for Man Slavery 20th C. Reading 'Chicago'

Herbert Hoover in China: A Story I Had Never Heard Before

More on the Kaiping Mines: Jonathan Spence's Asides, and Albert Feuerwerker's Review of Ellsworth Carlson

links for 2007-07-26

James Fallows flees in terror from Windows Vista
Teresa [Nielsen Hayden] has taken a full-time job at Federated Media Publishing, the firm founded in 2005 by John Battelle to provide advertising revenue and other business-and-technical back-office support to a select group of best-of-breed blogs and web
Morton Rosenberg and Todd B. Tatelman: Congress’s Contempt Power: Law, History, Practice, and Procedure
Matthew Yglesias: Johann Hari, a former left-wing Iraq hawk like myself, turns a review of a book by Nick Cohen, current left-wing Iraq hawk, into the opportunity for a great essay on the phenomenon.
David Streitfeld: Foreclosures in state hit record high: Foreclosures soared to 17,408 for the three months ended June 30, an increase of 799% from the same period last year. The current rate handily exceeds the previous foreclosure peak set in 1996, when
Matthew Yglesias: Wrong Again, Douthat: The Butlerian Jihad, as everyone knows, is directed against "thinking machines" -- i.e., artificial intelligence -- not radical life-extending technologies. Indeed, the precious melange spice found only on Arakis is
Adam Smith—When Businessmen Propose Legislation: The proposal of any new law or regulation which comes from [businessmen], ought always to be listened to with great precaution, and ought never to be adopted till after having been long and carefully exam
Study: Iraqis May Experience Sadness When Friends, Relatives Die
A hacker by the name of Nightwatch has successfully compiled and launched the first third-party iPhone application. Nightwatch’s program is a simple “hello world” app and end-user apps are still a ways off, but this definitely opens the door for oth
Ezra Klein: endorses Skim, the pdf reader
Fred Kaplan: If the U.S. military had, say, 100,000 more troops to send and another 10 years to keep them there; if the Iraqi security forces (especially the Iraqi police) were as skilled and, more important, as loyal to the Iraqi nation (as opposed to th

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