insuring insurance

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/03/business/03insure.html?_r=2&hp

to trade or not to trade

Intrade is a prediction market, where people can bet on things like “who will win the presidential election?” or “which film will win the best picture award?”. Recently intrade is becoming the subject of speculation since its sportsbetting arm tradesports recently closed shop.

Hence this market:
https://www.intrade.com/index.jsp?request_operation=trade&request_type=action&selConID=659099

see more pwn and owned pictures

CS 101

http://semanticvector.blogspot.com/2008/08/how-to-mess-with-comp-sci-students.html

Meta Patent

A Meta Patent

Really?!

Meta posts considered harmful...

Enjoy!

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000982.html

From this it naturally follows:
http://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html

various mailing lists

We have an event notification mailing list that people can subscribe to. People have been abusing this list (sending non-eventlike information). A debate ensued.

And of course, someone suggested Meta

"I was thinking that we create a "MetaList" list where everyone who wants to debate the importance of the various lists and they're true purpose could spam each other."

meta performance art

Courtesy of pwei--

http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2007/07/meta-performanc.html

Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom wrote "How to read a why" (according to publisher's comments,



Shedding all polemic, Bloom addresses the solitary reader, who, he urges, should read for the purest of all reasons: to discover and augment the self. His ultimate faith in the restorative power of literature resonates on every page of this infinitely rewarding and important book.


My roommate's brother came up with a brilliant idea of writing an essay entitled "How to read 'How to read and why' and why".

Workshops

It finally happened. At work, we lead weekly sessions on interesting cool new technologies. Last week I got an email with a request I dreaded since the inception of the program:

"We need a workshop on how to give a workshop."

Alive and well

http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/contracts/uk/sql%20server%20reporting%20services.do

Look at all those pretty graphs and tables... too bad whoever made that page didn't know SSRS...