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Sunday, February 8th, 2009

Hit “F1″ for academic success

By Thoreau
Since Jim has occasionally blogged about Microsoft Office, I’d like to relate two stories about Excel Skillz in academia.
Let me preface this by saying that I don’t have much in the way of Excel skillz.  I mean, I can make a spreadsheet with formulas, but if you want any sort of fancy formatting, templates, [...]

Sunday, February 8th, 2009

OK, but can we see his birth certificate?

By Thoreau
Mohammad Khatami is throwing his hat in the ring to run for a third term as President of Iran.  Given that (1) Ahmadinejad is an embarassment who’s even pissed off some hard-liners (even if they sort of agree with him, every faction must have its sub-factions) and (2) the theocrats effectively neutered Khatami’s efforts [...]

Sunday, February 8th, 2009

Welcome to the Boomtown

NYU professors explain what the hell happened. Also, what to do now. (Via Marginal Revolution.)