Mar 6, 2009
verdict: the _Watchmen_ movie is good. very good.
Mar 2, 2009
An attacker who spends a billion dollars on special-purpose chips to attack Curve25519, using the best attacks available today, has about 1 chance in 1000000000000000000000000000 of breaking Curve25519 after a year of computation.—djb on dns
Mar 1, 2009
I do not know why the comparative ease and pleasure of writing nonfiction always confirms my intuition that fiction is really What I’m Supposed to Do, but it does, and now I’m back here flogging away (in all senses of the word) and feeding my own wastebasket.—DFW, to DeLillo
Mar 1, 2009
Graydon Carter, editor of Vanity Fair, concurred: ‘I think it’s the end of the age of irony’. Within less than a month of irony’s departure, the United States Air Force was dropping food packages and cluster bombs on Afghanistan.—The Liberal Defence of Murder, 7
Mar 1, 2009
clearing out my todo list… it would appear I haven’t done this since December 2005. surprising how many things I can cross off from then!
Feb 28, 2009
overheard in cambridge: “I can’t do it right now because of my media diet, but…”
Feb 26, 2009
this new wburg condo is plastered w slogans like “indie bands. stone countetops.” I’ve never seen such a blatant ad for gentrification
Feb 24, 2009
Join me: @carlmalamud for public printer: http://yeswescan.org/
Feb 21, 2009
As I regularly find myself having to remind cadet risk managers with newly-minted PhDs in financial econometrics, the Great Depression did actually happen; it wasn’t just a particularly innaccurate observation of the underlying 4% rate of return on equities.—Daniel Davies
Feb 20, 2009
wow. the stimulus bill requires agencies report the money they spend using RSS: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rssstimulus
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