A snarky blog about real estate in Alameda (thanks mom!), with a great URL. I wish I were as observant and incisive as this writer.
An Oakland police dept. crime map, configurable by crime type, last N days, and size of the circle around your point of interest.
...not that I will (at least it's exceedingly unlikely), but if I did...
The root cause would probably be quotes like this.
I don't think (para)military tactics are the right way to fight crime.
I wouldn't have mentioned cuil in this space had I not gotten a spam e-mail whose subject line describes cuil as "a google-ish search engine."
A while back I made fun of Ask Jeeves in this space only to learn that a colleague was actually at Ask.com and (justifiably, it turns out) begged to differ with my knee-jerk critique.
Given the performance issues I've seen this week on trying cuil, and the terrible results from any useful search term*, I fervently hope I don't know anyone who works there.
*- for example, a movie quote or lyric snippet or something with the "site:" clause. Anyone can write code that delivers decent results for generic words ("penguins") or proper nouns ("Coldplay"): A reasonable solution there would be to take 100,000 particular keywords (choosing them is sort of an interesting task) and build/cache result pages that include the relevant Wikipedia link, fan sites for any performer, etc.
Questionably useful notes on a frivolous Facebook game. (Doesn't everyone use his personal blog as portable, net-enabled scratch paper?)
Item Type
Winery Consumer $3 $7
Caviar Farm Consumer $2 $4
Brewery Consumer $3 $6
Toys Line Consumer $11 $17
Designer Clothing Brand Consumer $30 $49
Baby Food Line Consumer $41 $52
Snacks Brand Consumer $47 $57
Cereal Brand Consumer $55 $79
Cosmetics Line Consumer $78 $102
Canned Goods Line Consumer $99 $117
Designer Handbag Brand Consumer $109 $164
Luxury Furniture Line Consumer $107 $136
Fast Food Restaurant Chain Consumer $184 $202
Luxury Automobiles Line Consumer $240 $289
Jewelry Store Chain Consumer $454 $566
Appliances Brand Consumer $574 $672
Soft Drinks Brand Consumer $547 $767
Footwear Brand Consumer $514 $639
Clothing Store Chain Consumer $869 $1,025
Coffee Shop Chain Consumer $1,257 $1,786
Bugatti Exotic $1 $2
Race Horse Exotic $1 $2
Llama Farm Exotic $3 $5
Private Zoo Exotic $5 $7
Race Car Team Exotic $12 $14
Falconry Exotic $41 $61
Gulfstream Jet Exotic $64 $77
Private Space Flight School Exotic $108 $216
Island Resort Exotic $108 $213
Treasure Hunting Team Exotic $294 $507
Cryogenics Service Exotic $217 $486
Genetics Lab Exotic $721 $951
University Exotic $784 $1,078
Philanthropic Foundation Exotic $1,035 $1,068
Space Exploration Team Exotic $2,508 $2,936
Military Robotics Exotic $4,110 $4,388
National Park Exotic $37,136 $42,574
New Country Exotic $58,221 $72,451
Space Colony Exotic $259,169 $271,602
Tanker Industrial $5 $8
Gold Mine Industrial $13 $77
Steel Plant Industrial $22 $36
Bank Industrial $18 $57
Renewable Energy Farm Industrial $65 $92
Industrial Machinery Industrial $79 $92
Trucking Company Industrial $330 $361
Coal Mine Industrial $599 $893
Diamond Mine Industrial $940 $1,423
Oil Refinery Industrial $3,534 $4,643
Solar Power Plant Industrial $6,025 $6,852
Oil Exploration Team Industrial $6,822 $7,160
Night Club Leisure $8 $16
Ballooning Company Leisure $5 $10
Airship Company Leisure $18 $29
TV Show Leisure $23 $31
Newspaper Publisher Leisure $18 $62
Broadcasting Satellite Leisure $30 $42
Film Production Company Leisure $80 $192
Health Club Chain Leisure $68 $99
Amusement Park Leisure $78 $120
Airline Leisure $78 $101
Magazine Publisher Leisure $124 $183
Record Label Leisure $121 $196
Ice Hockey Team Leisure $510 $774
TV Station Leisure $524 $603
Casino Leisure $458 $651
Soccer Team Leisure $785 $1,697
Baseball Team Leisure $1,152 $1,357
Basketball Team Leisure $1,129 $1,379
American Football Team Leisure $1,478 $1,880
Houseboat Real Estate $6 $10
Condominium Real Estate $61 $85
Luxury Hotel Real Estate $80 $98
Luxury Apartment Real Estate $98 $139
Ranch Real Estate $102 $161
Private Villa Real Estate $154 $280
Ski Resort Real Estate $196 $268
Dunes Golf Course Real Estate $385 $451
Fairways Golf Course Real Estate $657 $754
Office Complex Real Estate $518 $707
Skyscraper Real Estate $687 $834
Greenhouse Real Estate $947 $1,417
Shopping Center Real Estate $2,015 $2,679
Luxury Hospital Real Estate $8,611 $8,971
Server Farm Tech $14 $19
Robotic Pets Company Tech $41 $87
Video Games Company Tech $80 $161
IT Site Tech $208 $380
E-Commerce Site Tech $303 $455
Call Center Tech $530 $715
Special Effects Company Tech $701 $934
Cellular Network Tech $926 $1,352
Business Software Tech $1,031 $1,241
Pharma Company Tech $13,058 $14,526
Facebook Tech $25,586 $26,320
Do you consider Nippon Professional Baseball to be on par with Major League Baseball; that is, would you consider them both to consist of (lower case) major leagues?
A lot of questions that people treat as complicated, or controversial, could be answered quite easily if there were clear answer to that question. I happen to think the Central League and Pacific League are not on par with the National League and American League -- but your mileage may vary.
A common conception is that the Japanese Leagues are comparable to Triple-A baseball in the U.S., though Clay Davenport concluded otherwise in 2002).
Anecdotally, I can think of more players who came here from Japan and didn't live up to the hype than players who came here from Japan and exceeded the hype. On the other hand, this may be because high-profile players made the leap before rank-and-file did; for example, nobody in the U.S. expected great things from Hideki Okajima.
On the third hand this gets to why I (chauvinistically?) put U.S. Major League Baseball alone on the top tier: Many of Japan's biggest stars wish to play for U.S. teams; the converse seems not to be true to any extent. Free agents generally go from the U.S. to Japan for lack of U.S. major league opportunities, rather than as a result of getting bids both places and finding a Japanese bid to be superior.
Anyhow, practical implications for how you answer the main question:
Should 30-year-olds who played several seasons in Japan be considered for the MLB rookie of the year award? I strongly believe they should (in large part because in fact they are clearly eligible).
Is it noteworthy that Ichiro now has a combined 3,000 hits between the Orix Blue Wave and the Seattle Mariners? Sort of -- but only sort of. I don't know off-hand how many home runs Henry Aaron hit at any given level of the minors; it says here that Barry Bonds had seven home runs at high "A" and 13 more at Triple-A. There's a good chance that in 2010 Jack Cust will hit his 300th professional home run.
Rigorous censorship of the John Edwards page. But take that link with a grain of salt -- Gawker Media is notoriously right-wing.
Ted Stevens (Alaska) is now both.
Some time in the last 24 hours you did to me the moral equivalent of knocking over a game board -- actually 11 game boards. You had no need to do this.
I will readily admit that Scrabulous violated your IP (they probably will too) and made money from ads. I infer that reaching a deal was just impossible, but given how much you had to gain from a deal I question how hard you tried.
You recently introduced your own product, years after Rajat & Jayant had already filled the void. Was their source code somehow not up to your high standards? Do you think so little of Scrabulous users that our patronage isn't worth your finding a way for us to make a smooth transition?
I am only one person -- about to become a father, I hope, so in theory the target audience of a toy company. I don't pretend that a multitude of people read this web log, but some of them do, and some are themselves recent parents.
I will go out of my way not to purchase Hasbro products and I urge my friends to do the same.
Is it wrong that I feel the exact opposite of sympathy for Dmitri Young?
Fun fact: Dmitri Young was an All-Star in 2007. Then again Cristian Guzman was an All-Star in 2008. What a franchise!
I'm not proud of this post that I wrote in February, yet this surprising Freakonomics post reminded me of it.