virii is not a 'proper' plural of virus, which is apparently viruses…. which sound icky to me, to use another improper word….

apparently the u.s. had a man prosecuted for throwing snowballs at our embassy in norway.

Susan Moller Okin. edited personal report from ct An obituary will appear in tomorrow’s edition of the Stanford Report. Here is the press release: Susan Moller Okin died of unknown causes last week at the age of 57. Okin was Marta Sutton Weeks Professor of Ethics in Society and professor of Political Science at Stanford […]

Pure Freedom. Like Josh Chafetz I scored a mere 21 out of a possible 160 on the Libertarian Purity Test. I might have gone a bit higher if some of the questions had been better specified. For instance one question asks, “Would… [Matthew Yglesias] —— i scored a 32….. 31-50 points: Your libertarian credentials are […]

Today is International Women's Day. “The young women of today, free to study, to speak, to write, to choose their occupation, should remember that every inch of this freedom was bought for them at a great price. It is for them to show their gratitude by helping onward the reforms of their own times, by […]

and now they want the woman to pay them for the merchandise they illegally bought. why can't the police just go in and seize the merchandise and btw they should audit the company for past occurances of this. how much do you want to bet they've been selling stolen stuff before? i wouldn't bet much… […]

Commodities. David Stutz writes a nice essay thinking about the nature of a commodity, the standards that frame them, and the bursts of innovation that seem to happen when new commodities emerge. He obviously is starting to see the ying/yang way that firms and public goods are interleaved to make markets. I've been wondering recently […]

Lecture versus Discussion. In the comments to “We could hire God this year,” David Salmanson asserts that lecturing is not teaching: For those of you taping a lecture as an example of your teaching, don't bother. Lecturing is reading in a less interactive… [Invisible Adjunct] ——- Lectures aren't teaching…. I agree. They do foster a […]

remember the the simpsons episode with the 3 eyed fish? eh eh, and the frogs? well welcome to our world.

theoretically they should know that this could be highly problembatic. to make a virtual earth on which to model virtual conflict will over time add so many levels of uncertainty that they should as well be worrying about virtual mars.