Silly String – Serious Subject
A wonderful story about a Mom helping our troops in Iraq. Silly String can be used to detect tiny trip wires that the insurgents use in booby traps; this woman figured out how to ship a boatload of the product overseas. Kudos to Capacity LLC for shipping the product.
Guest Blogger? No thanks.
CashQuests.com is arguing that bloggers save their best work for their own sites, ergo guest posts are garbage. I’m not positive I agree with this reasoning; a new blogger may want to show off their skills on a site with more traffic and post great work with a link back to their site.
Economists: We’re not worthy of Nobel!
Interesting story in the International Herald about the legitimacy of having a Nobel prize for Economics. Some argue that economic theory is too ideological to be evaluated with impartiality. Speaking of the Nobel, here’s a summary of mechanism design. Research into this idea by Hurwicz, Maskin, and Myerson won them this year’s prize.
