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New name for BW's reader collabo economic stimulus blog (arriving within days): Vox Stimuli
Ambinder on Chicago skuz: "It's like Fitzgerald hired David bleeping Mamet to write the indictment..." http://tinyurl.com/6au8af
Check out this 1934 composite of a dictator's face: http://web.mac.com/janetagi...
Taped a segment for Chicago Tonight, but I think they'll be busy with Gobernatorial hijinks (and worse). Maybe next week for Numerati.
Wrote a small piece on cybersecurity--and whether Obama'll invest stimulus funds into it. Kinda important. http://tinyurl.com/6frmls
Speaking soon (7:30) at Elmhurst Public Library outside Chicago. Still time to make it if you're in the western 'burbs.
Overheard @ laguardia: "I asked her like 5 times. I was like embarrassed. I was like forget it..."
Cabbie says he was speaking the Twi language of Ghana. Says the "chana" I heard was about Chinese rice. No such thing as chaka chaka.
In cab at 72nd + Park, listening to cabbie. His language features "chucka chucha" and "chana chana." Any guesses?
@BevBrown Be happy to talk about Numerati series at some point. Maybe next week. Today, flying out to Chicago. Thursday in Philadelphia. thx
RT @andismit Numerati on procrastination: http://bit.ly/VT5o
Going to be speaking at Elmhurst Public Library tonight, in Chicago. Please skip (or Tivo) Mon Night Football and come.
@paulgregorylang Are you in Phila? If so, please come to (free) Numerati event at Phila Free Library Thurs pm. http://tinyurl.com/687ed7
Reading Richard Rhodes' book on Mad Cow. V good writing. I'm trying to come up with ideas (tho I wouldn't pitch a book these days on m. cow)
Recession watch: Going to darn my sox today.
Juggernaut, Sanskrit for a giant carriage used to transport an image of the god Krishna. from word root list http://tinyurl.com/5hox45
@ggroovin Don't know about self-publishing nonfiction, but thinking of blogging my next nonfiction proposal and open-sourcing it.
Joel Achenbach's ode to late autumn, an unloved season. I love this guy's writing and wit: http://tinyurl.com/6glqms
Working to come to grips with more bad news from my publisher, Houghton-Mifflin Harcourt: http://tinyurl.com/5svxnw
@jonfine's talk w M. Wolff on NYT's Sulzbergers, who are different from Dow Jones' Bancrofts. How? None of them work. http://tinyurl.com
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