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the previous two-quarter period, we automatically account for that situation. Using this two-quarter GDP growth rate, we can much more easily identify recessionary periods using just GDP data. Then we went a step beyond that. We also incorporated David Tufte's GDP "grading scale" into our bullet chart visualization, which appears as the temperature scale gradients, but we did so in a way that would blend the transitions between otherwise distinct boundaries in that scale. This blending effect allows us to account for

Cupping and tweaking. Steamed citrus calamari. I saw Lidia make this on PBS, and now I have the recipe. I will make this once this summer. Marilyn Manson makes absinthe. Happy spamiversary. Best Rev. Wright caricature. Kollege kidz R Dum. Henry Blodget is back. The end is near. Craigie St Bistrot is expanding. We ate there recently, and it’s awesome. Rev. Wright email. I suspect that most black parishioners view hyperbole as stock in trade for their preachers.

THEY'LL NEVER LACK FOR MATERIAL. Rate Your Students, that is.

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David Tufte quotes C. K. Chesterton: The problem isn't educating the uneducated but rather uneducating the educated. Which reminded me of a fine observation by Will Rogers: “It ain’t what you don’t know that hurts you. It’s what you know that ain’t so.”

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Wherever U.S. interests have been imperiled and a temporary "peace" could be bought at the expense of long-term security, Carter has always been on board. The late Democratic Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan summed it up when he said of Carter in 1980, "Unable to distinguish between our friends and our enemies, he has essentially adopted our enemies' view of the world." Meddler and Failure Another of Jimmy Carter's dubious legacies has been the now common habit of former

I haven’t done a summary in a while. So let’s do it now: Dave writes a great summary of an article by a NASA scientist who finds serious problems with global warming theories. SNL parody of Top Chef. How to discredit yourself. FSJ channels Baudelaire. Way cool math-music-sound-Flash-thingy. Discussion in the change in Obama’s branding (font-change). Google steals. Evite horrifies

unknown wrote an interesting post today on Here’s a quick excerpt In particular, we’ve just had a standards war over the next generation of DVDs, with Blu-Ray beating out HD-DVD. When consumers purchased HD-DVD content on disks, they did so to obtain

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