Mass Validation*

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Mass Validation*

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Table of Contents

  • Chapter One
  • Chapter Two
  • Chapter Three
  • January 2009
    • But she didn’t love him
    • Deborah Looi says:
    • Silent
    • My mind tells me to give up, but my heart won’t let me
    • Louis Armstrong
    • Hello USA
    • At my dorm!
    • Flying is like being in prison
    • Finally settling in
    • Maybe?
    • thought of the day
    • Student life
    • Accents
    • Sappiness
    • food
    • Catholicism
    • Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
    • You don’t have a soul.
    • How to avoid getting trampled at the inauguration.
    •  
    • An attitude of gratitude helps us avoid the negativity of captivity
    • Inauguration
    • Faith, hope, love
    • Going to Wash DC this weekend!
    • ECB’s Bini Smaghi: Deflation Risk Smaller in Euro Zone
    • Bailout game. If you have time to waste
    •  
    •  
    • Weekend holiday part 1
    • I need to understand macroecons basics
    • The magic mile
    • What Do Women Want?
    • Need… to… lose… weight
    •  
    • Sleep is good
  • February 2009
    • Inventory of Normality
    • Random story of the day (told by random pictures)
    • Not so subtle slur of the day
    • Quote of the day
    • So
    • Dinner at Bamboo House
    • Barack Obama is @#$% tired of this @#$%!
    • Is this real life?
    • ‘Cute’ burrowing, gregarious, plant-eating mammal with long ears, long hind legs, and a short tail.
    • Ten things you didn’t know about…
    • The Primrose by John Donne
    • awesome chat
    • I want you to sing with rapture and dance like a dervish
    • Shocks
    • The second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.
    • Fortune cookies
    • indeed
    • Amanda,
    • Vusi Mahlasela sings at Old Cabell Hall
    • Capitalism, out of hand
    • I’m awesome, but you knew that already ;-)
    • impressive selfcooked meal today!
    • The stars are beautiful, because of a flower that cannot be seen.
    • Je suis celui d’en face/Et celle d’a coté/Je suis celui qui passe/A proximité
    • Happy Valentine’s Day/Arbitraging!
    • Religious police break hearts in Saudi Arabia
    • Love is patient, love is kind.
    • V-day related
    • i hope…
    • Faith
    • Total Defence
    • Marriage and the City
    • Oh pity the rich bankers whose pay have been limited
    • Obama’s elf
    • Be a finance phd, not an econ phd
    • Lame viral note
    •  
    • Ayn Randed
    • dear friends, have a nice day!
    • How will I know
    • How a transformative musical experience came to TED
    • Statistics visualisation
    • We would never forgive ourselves for losing it for no reason at all.
    • Love, prelude
    • time wasted
    • The Crisis of Credit Visualized
    • Learning the piano!
    • UVA STAND 5k Race for Darfur
    • Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
    • but not in packs, please
    • That is why, in spite of a hundred disadvantages, the world will always return to monogamy.
    • it’s easier to peel bananas from the ‘non-stalked’ part
    • The uncertain economy
    •  
    •  
    • Tintern Abbey
    • Monica and Penelope
    • Who is Rosa Parks?
    • Warning
    • The Scream
    • am i missing something?
    • dreams of a land
    • i thank you God for most this amazing
    • Wow I’m in the top undergraduate business program
    • Walk the Line
    • Hello Guatemala
    • Flores and Tikal
  • March 2009
    • Pictures of trip!
    • Guatemala, told with loads of pics
    • Story of the day in pictures
    • The root cause of the financial crisis? Maybe not.
    • Lost Generation
    •  
    • Dear love
    • MC Escher
    • darn… more evidence that money buys happiness
    • ignite242
    • need… to…
    • diversions of the day
    • and singapore is 10th
    • Sands President Abruptly Resigns - WSJ.com
    • quote
    • Descending
    • geek post alert
    • 486. ``sappy sad love story of the day’’
    • Madoff and Morality
    • imagine…
    • To see you would be for a hundred summers to begin at once.
    • Capitalism Beyond the Crisis - The New York Review of Books
    • moonlighting
    • today is the last day…
    • The second chance
    • changing me, and changing you.
    • 27ºC last weekend at Charlottesville. Today it snowed 0ºC. Gah
    • evidence that looks are not superficial
    • brownies
    • Some shape of beauty moves away the pall/From our dark spirits.
    • lesser emo, more joy
    • A woman’s heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.
    • Charter for compassion
    • song of the day
    •  
    • Alternative Energy Revolution (via xkcd)
    • The importance of stupidity in scientific research
    • fake cover letters
    • harder to practise law
    • some shock hit me
    • honestly=)
    • Naked people
    • Clementine
    • There were some things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them and let them hurt me
    • maybe one more month
    • I’ve got new shoes!
    • AIG news
    • Petition
    • Feminist lens
    • why is my ex classmate asking me about philosophy suddenly?
    • Liturgy come alive and further thoughts
    • Haircut: $43
    • Achinoam Nini aka Noa
    • spent quite a bit of money so far on shopping, wonder how to take it all home. esp the clothes and books..
    • analogy of the day
    • Obama’s `new day’ speech to Iran
    • Kill Bill in one minute
    • cough cough
    • Life is beautiful
    • buongiorno principessa!
    • House Approves 90% Tax on Bonuses After Bailouts
    • on blaming the economists, not economics
    • unprecedented interview with Fed chair Ben Bernanke
    • Emotional independence
    • interesting post on the prisoner’s dilemma, evil twin edition
    • song of the day
    • today…
    • Dear AIG, I quit!
    •  
    • we hope so!
    • Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d.
    • the end of inflation in zimbabwe?
    •  
    • Luck versus Skill in the Cross Section of Mutual Fund Alpha Estimates
    • “I Do” Wedding Band in Palladium and 18K Yellow Gold
    • Online blog defends mainstream media. Amazing.
    • It’s the joy in your heart
    • http://icanread.tumblr.com/ rawks
    • Can we realistically get back to the previous model of banking?
    • analysis, thought process, & happiness
    • Song of the day
    • Loot!
    • Rawr!!
    • risk perception and behavioral economics/finance
    • parable of the day
    • I refuse.
    • weekends are the best
    • TIPS or Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities
    • blah blah blah
    • secret bible verse (ok maybe not so secret)
    • The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.
  • April 2009
    • using CDS, this time to regulate
    •  
    • important change at my blog (pls read)
    • is it just me or is wikipedia down?
    • Happy birthday=)
    • thank you…
    • clap clap clap
    • song of the day
    • Inappropriateness: City Harvest Church
    • In about a month’s time…
    • Obama gave
    • stories of the day
    • toilet paper
    • We are the Easter people and Hallelujah is our song!
    • Quote of the day
    • indeed…
    • horrors
    • I feel like a popsicle
    • Stone love, new love, soul love
    • Anything too stupid to be said is sung.
    • Why was Jesus crucified?
    •  
    • Good Friday
    • How to score A+ in SMU
    • Aware has been taken over!
    • Happy Easter
    • Fundamentalism
    • In Praise of Pirates
    • Singapore’s meritocratic edge
    • Tantum Ergo / Down in Adoration Falling
    • GS BS
    • Snipe an ebay auction
    • Horse riding
    • Bid sniping, an experiment
    • Love song for #1
    •  
    • I thought I signed up for Spring. It’s still cold and rainy.
    • music is the hope of mankind
    • Pleurer pour un rien/C’est déjà beaucoup
    • story of the day
    • don’t stop me now
    • Ayn Rand insanity, ever heard of stewardship?
    • Together
    •  
    • S’pore ranks second-lowest for job satisfaction
    •  
    • The Argument (for two voices)
    • memories
    • It May Be Time for the Fed to Go Negative
    • random thought that hit me as i went to bed
    • you know, i’d go there with you
    • When She Loved Me
    • spoken word pop hit
    • Je t’aime, tu m’aimes, alors tant pis
    • I feel better.
    • Subprime crisis: must see animation
    • insidious fundamentalism
    • Still, not really
    • It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, ‘Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm.’
    • To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,/ Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
    • How to Survive a Nuclear Attack
  • How to Survive a Nuclear Attack
    • Steps
    • Video
    • Tips
    • Warnings
    • Related wikiHows
    • Sources and Citations
    • create, renew, restore, sustain
    • 73
    • News on Islam
    • coolstuff
    • University Singers Spring Concert
    • My Lord What A Morning
    • she can sing
    • World Economic Outlook
    • Hotter than Singapore
    • Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell
    • secretshhh
    • age and education make people philosophical
    • too bad I can’t dance too well
    • swine flu
    • No more ISAS.
    •  
    • sick of finding customer service numbers?
    • yay we need negative interest rates
    • to those graduating/graduated
    • via deb’s blog
    • Head hurts
    • Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
  • May 2009
    • why are you so paranoid
    • Exposing Coach
    • I want the job of creating these fortune cookie messages!
    • time would be meaningless if there were too much of it
    • Labour economics of the current crisis
    • final exams are … slayed
    • yes.
    • Country music of the day
    • Native pdf support. delicious
    • @atlanta airport now
    • In the skies now, back to Singapore
    • Endorsement
    • smustu\joshua.wong.2006
    • I miss…
    • Endorsement
    • Top 10 Worst Foods
    • Donate today
    • ;-)
    • Survivor…
    • Free Coldplay album
    • Garuda
    • Reads
    • eagles can’t type
    • lunch at Momoya
    •  
    • shared in service today.
    • Interesting thoughts about change in modern life
    •  
    • Assassination in Guatemala
    • single ladies (put a ring on it)
    • Sage… free open source mathematics software!
    • hurhur
    • Obama’s Notre Dame speech
    • Yay to consulting
    • word of the day: blench
    • The most important place in the world
    •  
    • If spirits could be seen they wouldn’t be called spirits. Savvy?
    • the week thus far
    • Preludiya; Fund-raiser-concert
    • A romantic comedy for men
    • Offensive to call people ‘sexually challenged’ (?)
    • Shag the Dog
    • QJ, this is for you
    •  
    • Don’t steal my mug no more
    • a poem (almost)
    • stranger news
    • only stupid people read the new paper regularly (ok some read it for the sports, but still…)
    • Lobsters and pain
    • why sad? beyond sadness is hope again
  • June 2009
    • great comparison
    • You do not want to leave too, do you?
    • bienvenue chez moi
    • spent the whole day
    • PES V (for Vampire)
    •  
    • diversion of the day, i can’t resist doing these
    • Enlightenment in seven days
    •  
    • Prediction: Twitter
    • Why Active Investing Is a Negative Sum Game
    •  
    •  
    • If, by Rudyard Kipling
    • first tweet like post on my new blog the…
    • test post
    • Hope is Here
    • Star
    • Red Rabbit (watch!)
    • Don’t wanna lose nobody close to me
    •  
    • dinner and dancing and eternity to follow
    • A tale of three monks
    • Commenting up
  • July 2009
    • played alot of this when i was young. brings back memories…
    • Gothere.sg is location aware with firefox3.5
    • short pitch
    • Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence?
    • To win, don’t play. How true.
    • for anjana and ms!
    • u can slice your cake but not eat it
    • What is happiness?
    • as they teach in driving school…
    • Creative gets creative
    • Original Strawberry Shortcake Opening Song
    • lol
    •  
    • songs for free cd
    • I want a love that’s right but right is only half of what’s wrong.
    • good term ahead to all!
    • Happy B’day Matthias!
    • More ketchup
    • Deny the cat
    • a thing must be loved BEFORE it is loveable
    • Free book: Orthodoxy by GK Chesterton
    • Pixar vs Dreamworks
  • August 2009
    • Happy bday to Dad
    • Studies show that majoring in social science makes you an idiot
    • nope… not like this
    • sent letter
    • Wait a moment!
    • productive day
    • bear with me
    • great, school’s in; great school’s in
    • Listen to this now!
    • Erik Satie - Gymnopédie No.1
    • If you judge people, you have no time to love them. - Mother Teresa
    • Help
    • Prière n°3 by Yann Tiersen
    • end of week 2
    • Puzzle of the day
    • so many things to read…
  • September 2009
    • Rich son poor son
    • hurhur
    • busy busy week
    • Monochrome
    • cycling food etc
    • Don’t forget
  • October 2009
    • if my heart gets there first, it will be easy to follow it with my body
    • yea, next week
    • Case: Starhub vs Singtel
    • Heartless
    • Woman on Playboy cover
    • Case: Starhub vs Singtel 2
    • Say Frog!
    • I’m taking my GRE this Friday, and will…
    • gosh it’s gonna require all my concentr…
    • Seems like exercise is good. After the s…
    • Lord of reality make me real not plastic…
    • Gotta be kidding right
    • Exciting times ahead…
    • Superman’s abilities explained. http:/…
    • Income Inequality and Education: Recent…
    • Quick poll: who thinks insider trading s…
    • CCC
    • Song!: Look Like a Fool
    • In strategy class. Last class YES.
  • November 2009
    • From http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/…
    • Singapore is going to offer priority vac…
    • A sexy post
    • How to Eat a Chicken Wing
    • Political lobbying explained through the…
    • Which animals failed to come to Noah’s A…
    • The Last of the Goo Balls. ~World of Goo…
    • MacTeX-2009 is out! http://www.tug.org/…
    • I’m really bad at math. Inching towards…
    • Marriage
    • Malcolm Gladwell explains Christmas at h…
    • Si tu veux m’essayer
    • Parents, take note: The concept of ``ti…
    • I wonder what would Singaporeans say! […
    • mathematics
    • Tragedy of the commons. Whales and dolph…
    • Meep!
    • Notre Dame De Paris: Bohemienne
    • Liu Bolin, the invisible man
    • The Rivers of Babylon
    • Krugman on jobs: Paul: There’s no hard…
    • Went to the Big O at Wheelock Place for …
    • See if you understand what the heck the …
    • In his book Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell …
    • As It Is In Heaven
    • Ephesians 5:4 (New Living Translation) …
    • Dealing with failure will get harder in …
    • From http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.c…
    • Lost [Radio Mix] - Michael Bub……
    • The Tandem Bike
    • I was eating at macs this morning, and t…
    • name fail
    • phew!
    • A brain teaser: Jack is looking at Anne…
    • Officially Missing You
    • The Muppets: Bohemian Rhapsody [youtu…
    • I think I’m missing the whole point of …
    • A brain teaser: Jack is looking at Anne…
    • This will go viral. Watch at your own pe…
    • good day to you too
  • December 2009
    • me neither
    • The Dangerous Mysteries of Consciousness…
    • Great actress (this is really random)
    • Wow this is the best typography parody o…
    • Joy To The World (Unspeakable Joy)
    • Christmas Unwish List
    • Christmas in a nutshell
    • You must love your school.
    • cousin: OMG THERES A SNAKE OUTSIDE MY R…
    • Samuelson has died….
    • Tell your colleagues that you’re off med…
    • Alice in Wonderland
    • Economics focus Paul Samuelson Dec 17th…
    • You Are With Me
    • Your result for The Lover Style Profile …
    • Praise be to God for another good year g…
    • In other news, my Kindle is here! (thank…
    • New books!
    • Gosh
    • What I learnt from watching Avatar the second time
    • Is Christmas really a deadweight loss
  • January 2010
    • To all readers, happy new year!
    • We will be glad…
    • If you do not desire to know Him better,…
    • Lots of people have problems waking up i…
    • Cast all your anxiety on him because he …
    • didn’t know this…
    • Serve the LORD with gladness: com…
    • Productive day
    • 2 Corinthians 3:4-5 (New International V…
    • In a provocative look at the impact of s…
    • “When the world my heart is rending Wit…
  • February 2010
    • What do chinese soldiers eat
    • Maid hit for eating biscuits
    • Erm, sorry, but this is so bad it’s actually good…
    • i passed my driving test!
    • On 10 Feb 2010
    • WASHINGTON—The U.S. economy ceased to fu…
    • stretching it
    • From Ecumenical News International: Whil…
    • Life is a journey. Helmets are good.
    • these are the days
  • March 2010
    • It’s March!
    • Timbaland - If We Ever Meet Again ft. Katy Perry
    • Why There Is No Jewish Narnia
    • Public Health announcement
    • We were all inmates of one place, And I,…
    • Spent the whole day churning out data. Gah.
    • People still have a sense of decency, or not…
    • it’s all a lie
    • anyone is free? help me proofread and find grammatical mistaks?
    • 1 Timothy 3:8-13
    • If the day is done, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
    • Please don’t sue me
    • Women are safer drivers
    • yes, the graphs are all coming out
    • Xmas last year
    • So do I
    • Statistics
    • 1000 Awesome Things
  • 585 Figuring out the plot twist just before they reveal it http://1000awesomethings.com/
    • Eating vitamins
    • Left my phone in the MDL!
    • get rid of unwanted SMU cca spam forever! (in three easy steps)
    • The Future of Michael Shermer
    • a threat or?
  • April 2010
    • a true story
    • “Til’ I Hear You Sing” [Official Love Never Dies video]
    • such an appropriate april fool’s day joke
    • four
    • and nothing will come of nothing
    • thanks Anna!
    • When Simon was forced to carry the cross for Christ, all he did was haul some wood.
    • could not resist posting this
    • Major What-Ifs
    • A Hindu Traffic Nudge
    • Blue diamond sells for $6.4m at Hong Kong auction
    • Winning names
    • seems like an interesting book!
    • Graduate employment survey published 2010
    • New theme up!
    • If you’re in SIS, you are more likely to be unemployed if you are > cum laude
    • It should be a moral appeal, not a legal / diplomatic one.
    • Let’s bribe our children
    • Chances are, you won’t know all the words here:
    • is this for real?
    • Is Q a Chinese Character?
    • Academy Award Winning Movie Trailer
    • Schelling’s Answer to Armed Robbery and Survivor
    • Phase 2 Circle Line opens
    • C’est Comme Ça
    • Terre
    • 3G Auction: 34 rounds completed, Punjab attracts lowest bid
    • How many words did Shakespeare know?
    • C K Prahalad has died
    • Eyjafjallajökull — lol
    • when you create aliases on the mac
    • My exams are over!
    • New resolutions
    • On April 22, Celebrate Exploit-the-Earth Day
    • My right to speak my mind and to go travelling
    • these are real names
    • facebook works
    • woohoo
    • I can wait
    • Convergence in thinking
    • God interpretive skills needed?
    • Surely this deserves a reblog
    • Don’t worry, he’ll realize the irony soon.
    • Is Insider Trading Beneficial?
    • Mushrooms are good for you
    • This is serious
    • Cumulative Bivariate Normal Distribution Numerical Evaluation
    • No need to change laws
    • Off to Bandung!
  • May 2010
    • Bandung
    • Graduation
    • Cantemus!
    • Language fail
    • oh Alice!
    • Italy owes France $511 billion, or nearly 20% of France’s GDP
    • Colour Wheel
    • Internet on the go!
    • carte postale
    • Street Fighter: Legacy
    • Happy Birthday Anna!
    • First come first served = corruption?
    • Outdoor firing ranges now private. Probably millions saved.
    • I’d like to bring to you “Cost effective end-to-end solutions”
    • This, my friend, is a url:
    • Holy smokes, LaTeX now on Google docs
    • Creativity in the Sciences and the Arts.
    • Visitors to MacRitchie Reservoir will soon be able to walk on water
    • Reflections on education
    • Morally conscious eating - 1
    • Marriage and life expectancy
    • Euro -> China
    • Love Changi Airport’s marketing
    • Escaping the competitive herd
    • Plagiarism by Kong Hee
    • Imagine, your last hamburger
    • Repression of bandits
    • We don’t know much about reducing poverty
    • To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
    • Let’s learn some game theory – Watch this, this is important.
    • British politics
    • DR. BOLI’S CELEBRATED MAGAZINE.
    • Caring for animals
    • Owned by China
    • How violent can a farmer get with his livestock?
    • Contre qui, rose
    • Food outing!
    • Fairness
    • New Zealand outlaws kosher slaughter
    • Don’t get me wrong. Humans are worth more than animals to me.
  • June 2010
    • Shocking—High pay leads to worse performance
    • Another reason why attractive compensation may lead to decreased performance.
    • Made my own salad today.
    • Netanyahu: Israel is guilty until proven guilty
    • Another example of how incentives may backfire
    • This is great.
    • Wrinkled Ladies
    • Guess the song
    • Screen shot on Kindle
    • Wow
    • We’re content with too little
    • Jessica has a day where she’s feeling … really good about her life
    • Power, politics and persuasion
    • Saudi Clerics Advocate Adult Breast-Feeding
    • Thought with no followup thoughts
    • Memories
    • World cup trash talking
    • The Substitute Singer
    • Music video by Shakira featuring Freshlyground performing Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) (The Official 2010 FIFA World Cup (TM) Song)
    • Andrea Bocelli tells a “little story” about abortion.
    • Points to note:
    • PR disaster
    • Kindle update
    • We drew! yay!
    • Doctor Who
    • Plagiarism in the church (?)
    • Game theory in soccer
    • World cup fever
    • From The Zahir by Paulo Coelho
    • The Me in Meat!
    • Quote of the day
    • We need many start-ups.
    • thought
    • Google seriously rocks
    • lalalalala
    • Is There Sex in Heaven?
    • going on to msn for the first time in a long while…
    • Just to challenge himself, my cousin is going vegetarian for one week
    • Important to whom?
    • Kindle is now just $189. Gosh!
    • Economics is hard
    • Me bro
    • 3x9
  • July 2010
    • How do waterless urinals work
    • Honours are unreal
    • The Passage by Justin Cronin
    • A (much) better BOSS mechanism
    • Brainstorming rocks
    • The fair king
    • Science vs Religion
    • Book recommendation: Presenting to Win by Jerry Weissman
    • cool!
    •  
    • Only for Yeos
    • Weekend reads
    • What the F**k is Social Media NOW?
    • C.S. Lewis
    • Try this site out!
    • Why Sing Alone?
    • How to win RPS
    • That’s because 5 mins in real life = an hour in the dream.
    • Division
    • Clever bartender
    • Another puzzle: Pirates…oops I mean sons
  • August 2010
    • The capitalist paradigm of narrative and Marxist class
    • Interesting stuff from the Bible—Genesis
    • Simply amazing. Watch this NOW.
    • Bad Romance (Lady Gaga) - Korg Monotron and Kaossilator
    • The slide that no one has seen
    • Timeline 3D
    • Strangely satisfying
    • This is amazing
    • Sordid videos
    • So Singaporeans are not the only people who’d queue for McD in insane numbers
    • “Litany”, a 30 line poem by Billy Collins, recited by three year old
    • If we cut off the tail, it helps the genetic material escape once we implant it into the egg
    • Is Singapore spending too much on the military?
    • Writing Systems And Calligraphy Of The World
    • Question of the day
    • Question of the next day
  • September 2010
    • Ikea’s catalogue
    • the mrbrown show: oh army!
    • Distraction of the day
    • Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner said what makes Christianity powerful is that it is true.
    • Awesome article
    • I have a Kindle and I’m proud of it.
    • Help the Pakistani flooding victims
    • This is a joke, right?
    • You Think Your Job Is Tough?
    • Universal Studios with Anna
    • Yes. They do.
    • Greeks bearing bonds
    • How Pornography Drugs & Changes Your Brain
    • Alarming statistics
    • To friends who feel neglected, now science explains why! (kidding)
    • Marry young, but not too young
    • The possibility of an island
    • Aimer, the luxury lingerie brand, is Chinese
    • Wisdom of the day
    • Moral of the story: don’t cheat
    • Can’t believe there are such killers
    • on courage and boxing
    • Memory is a wonderful thing
    • So You Wanna Be a Chef — by Bourdain
    • Japan clearly has issues with competition
    • well..
    • what the …
    • Loyal and crazy fellas
    • Marshmallow tests
    • Yoga ≠ Christianity
    • We are net importers from psychology. boo.
    • Whoa, this service helps you search the internet!
    • Is long term solitary confinement torture?
    • Pope’s aide: aliens have souls (ok not exactly what he said)
    • Try not to eat too much tuna
    • Paul’s intensity
  • October 2010
    • How To Survive When Your Elevator Plunges
    • Burma’s Democratic Charade
    • Facebook and Twitter can’t change the world
    • What Are Books Good For?
    • Your kindergarten teacher played a big role in your life
    • What will future generations condemn us for?
    • The Genius of the Tinkerer
    • the purpose of eating at a buffet
    • Israel and Innovation
    • Hilarious
    • Free speech a concern
    • Stay at the Ritz!
    • heard of the basic laws of stupidity?
    • Interesting facts about dreams
    • Economic history matters
    • Can we go there now?
    • I’d vote for Obama if I could
    • Imagine a cupcake
    • Nazi nudge
    • Wow, I visited this volcano before
    • Too bad if you can’t read this (苦天抢地!)
    • The next best thing to pet salvation in a Post Rapture World
    • GivesMeHope
    • Leadership
    • Leadership
    • Procrastination
    • Lots of metaphors
    • Read the story of Anthony Reed, and about drugs along the way
    • breach of research ethics
    • I don’t know if you want to see this
    • The 600 Years
    • How do you refer to some page from a Kindle book?
    • walking versus running
    • The Most ‘Chinese’ Chinese Character?
    • They got Coca Cola
    • Charity offers UK drug addicts £200 to be sterilised
    • An evolutionary theory about suicide
    • Frankly, this shocked me quite a little
    • John Sculley On Steve Jobs
    • Three reasons to blame the US
    • The Starbucks Cup Dilemma
    • Trying out Evernote plugin
    • I don’t know how this guy does it
  • November 2010
    • Italian Graffiti
    • Food
    • The Razors-and-Blades Myth
    • Rome: Epic e-pictures
    • Fail fail
    • Christmas Wish List
    • itunes fail
    • Pope says condom use is ok in very exceptional cases
    • The Goal
    • Taxi prices in 72 cities
    • semi-dedicated to Anna
  • December 2010
    • Good waste of time:
    • Mark and Susan are most likely names to divorce?
    • 49.99*2=99.98
    • Do you need to even say this!?
    • Annals of unlawfulness—Appeal to conscience
    • Train fail
    •  
    • Wild
    • Books ngram viewer
    • Merry Christmas!
  • January 2011
    • What’s WiFi?
    • Cleveland Browns’s response to a fan
    • Empty Fire by The Third Twin
    • Smoking is such a wasteful activity
    • Saddened.
    • blogging my weight loss program
    • Blow your mind away
  • February 2011
    • Timur Kuran explains the failures of Islamic banking
    • What I do (roughly)
    • Happy 1 Year Anniversary!
  • April 2011
    • Scars
  • June 2011
    • Good CEOs spend more time with their own colleagues
    • A cure for aids
    • Madoff thinks he’s not (too) bad a person
    • Fake Prada bags make you want to buy the real thing
    • Parents keep child’s gender secret
    • Just so you know: how a Chanel Bag is made
    • the minute…
    • A good story
    • Girls can ride
    • Care to eat at Taco Bell?
    • Damn good tetris player.
    • Small gambles, small failures
    • A review of TGS
    • An interview with Gene Hackman
    • Networks Are Smarter & Faster Than Hierarchies
    • Can population or GDP explain chess success?
    • Take a Sabbath Each Week
    • I don’t know exactly what this article is really about
    • A talk you should attend
    • Dwarf tossing
    • Why the Super-Rich Only Drink Coke
    • Word of the day: epicaricacy
    • Keep on iterating
    • Giving Comfort to Hurting People
    • This insertion is impossible. Nothing should be added here. I worked for a month on this passage.
    • wooooooo
    • Wesley’s Covenant Prayer
    • Parfit argues for objectivity in ethics
    • Choosing wines according to their labels
    • Plastic Jesus
    • The Tale of Banu Cihan
    • I take one hour to travel to work.
    • On the four letter word
    • The secrets of Apple retail stores
    • Dear God:
    • absolutely hilarious and sad story
    • Has Economic Power Replaced Military Might?
    • fastest mac ever
    • Housing: Renting > Buying
    •  
    • Virgins, please
    • Stuxnet
    • Mellow Brick Road
    • The Prince Who Blew Through Billions
    • Wow wow wow
    • Blogger fined and jailed for negative food review
    • A Brief History of the Corporation: 1600 to 2100
    • Planes are slower these days?
  • July 2011
    • True?
    • Who are the child’s parents?
    • I stumbled upon a master lock in my cupboard
    • Sovereign Over Us - Aaron Keyes
    • How Much Does it Cost to go to Hogwarts?
    • Favourite quotes on the same theme
  • November 2011
    • I’m back to this blog.
    • Going to Prague next week
  • December 2011
    • Japan’s Phillips Curve Looks Like Japan
    • Christmas: God Is for You
    • What is christmas all about
    • Christmas 2011
    • Bible fact of the day
    • Brilliant
    • Now your turn!
    • Nice song
  • January 2012
    • Welcome 2012
    • Had some time
    • Just sayin’
    • Time is love..
    • Things are looking good….
    • Reading list
    • Converting dfont to windows font file formats
  • February 2012
    • Ok
    • Review of instant dry noodles (Mee Goreng)
  • March 2012
    •  
    • Para que tú me oigas
  • April 2012
    • Bike theft epidemic
    • New Book
    • Argh addictive
  • May 2012
    • Dismantled X-mini
    • Just finished this book by Bill Hybels
  • Salvation
  • Assurance
  • Fear
  • Temptation
  • Trials
  • Pride
  • Anger
  • Justice
  • Wisdom
  • Security
  • Power
  • Contentment
  • Peace
    • Always a joy to play this game
    • Best book on apologetics I’ve ever read.
    • Quote of the day.
    • Short read, reading now:
    • Non-stick ketchup bottle! Hope for humanity
  • June 2012
    • Reading now, highly recommended
    • Just saying
    • On Sadness
  • August 2012
    • Just read “tinkers”
  • October 2012
    • Story of the day
    • shake VIGOROUSLY
    • The Known Universe
  • November 2012
    • Some useful services for business
    • Take a break
    • Artiste by Oxmo Puccino
  • December 2012
    • Merry Christmas all!
  • February 2013
    • One idea to solve our population problem
    • Am going to Poland in May this year
  • March 2013
    • How I sped up Terminal on my Mac
  • April 2013
    • Doctor Who!?
    • A wedding sermon from a prison cell written in 1943
    • Public Service Announcement: Daft Punk’s album is out next month
  • May 2013
    • How I made $508,000 with Bitcoins
  • July 2013
    • Goodbye Google Reader
  • August 2013
    • I have found it of enormous value when I can permit myself to understand another person
    • Quote
    • 22 Minute Meeting
  • October 2013
    • Links
    • Business reads for today
    • Facebook links
    • Economics links
    • Good Reads
    • Read more
    • Interesting exchange
    • Economics links:
    • Economics roundup
  • November 2013
    • Christmas songs I love
  • December 2013
    • The Value of a Smile at Christmas

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