Sunday, July 06, 2008

AGW as Mass Delusion

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Heh. Couldn't have put this better meself. There are two mass delusion abroad IMHO: AGW being one (natch) and the notion that financ...
Wednesday, June 25, 2008

More books

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Thanks to the wunners of globbelisation, I have three hot new books to devour. That's right: ordered 11 June on Amazon, delivered 25 J...
Monday, April 28, 2008

Tribalism and Treaty

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Bruce Sheppard, the quinessential provocateur, has wondered publicly about the relevance of Te Tiriti in 2008. I've added a little co...
Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Tibet - the ultimate theme park

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Spengler has, as always, a pithy comment - turn the whole show into a Theme Park. The money quote (soon, to be tariff-free, even, thanks t...
Saturday, March 29, 2008

Heat pumps (Shock, Horror) use Electricity!

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This just has to be a No Shit, Sherlock moment for the hapless central planners of our funny little economy. For the otherwise unenlightene...
Friday, March 28, 2008

Earth Hour = Soft fascism

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Couldn't agree more with This (ht Tim Blair ). While I'm wholly in favour of reducing consumption (and am well ahead of the curve,...
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Little Boxes

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The proposal to streamline the building industry consents etc process is gathering steam. Not PC has easily the best summary of my views -...
Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Bearing up

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Great thread here , where the comments throw up all the usual suspects. And the lead paragraph is just it: what Were they thinking? Scape...
Thursday, March 13, 2008

Really Bad Rhymes

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I seem to have been infected by a Rhyming Bug, and to exorcise it, have commented all over a bunch of otherwise blameless victims. To hell ...

Another climactic known is revealed to be unknown

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This leetle bombshell affects, oh, around half the marine organisms in the world. In essence, by omitting the 'assumed in the current ...
Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Overwhelmed by a Gust from Gaia

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ht: smalldeadanimals
Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Black-Scholes = Black Hole

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My math is far too weak to follow Black-Scholes, but it's been the standard paradigm for pricing of exotic financial instruments for a q...
Friday, February 22, 2008

Pre-emption: that's the ticket!

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The always indispensable Spengler has done it again, with a piece about the wisdom of getting in your retaliation early. And of course the...
Saturday, February 16, 2008

Solar is subject to Moore's Law

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This piece (ht: Instapundit) is a useful reminder that the good ol' entrepreneurial business is the way forward. Earnest Gummint comm...
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Thursday, February 14, 2008

If daisies are your favourite flower

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The dear sainted Archbishop of Canterbury does seem to have gottem his fluffy self into a spot of bother with his all-too-public musings on ...
Sunday, February 10, 2008

Weather cooling?

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I follow Anthony Watts , and he's come across this , from the wonderfully named Joe Bastardi. JB sees a re-run of the early-50's pa...
Thursday, January 24, 2008

By the Shadow of our Hand

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A chilling but essential read for all who harbour Pollyanna thoughts about the Long War. Belmont Club has always turned out excellent anal...
Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Some GDP perspective

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I've always been a sucker for maps, and this one (ht: Gods of Copybook Headings) is a bewdy. Yup, we're about the size of the US ...
Friday, January 18, 2008

The VooDoo Bucket - Level 3 assets under FAS-157

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It all sounds very technical, but it is quite important. Find out (if you're a shareholder in a bank, financial instituion or even a pen...
Thursday, January 03, 2008

That good old stuff

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Stewart Brand should need no introduction: Whole Earth Catalog, and a personal favourite: How Buildings Learn . Edge mag invited a whole b...