Daily Archives: October 2, 2003

Turn up the Radio, Honey!

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How is this different from today’s radio or TV?

He was required by law to wear it at all times. It was tuned to a government transmitter. Every twenty seconds or so, the transmitter would send out some sharp noise to keep people like George from taking unfair advantage of their brains.

The quote is from Kurt Vonnegut, Jr’s Harrison Bergeron which is included in the new compilation: The Literary Book of Economics. It is definitely worth taking a few minutes to read!
Recommended by Marginal Revolution.
PS: Does this book support this statement from The Leiter Reports:

Economists, of course, take the existence of a Nobel Prize in their field as an indication of the closeness of their field to real science. But perhaps the best rationale for a Nobel Prize in economics is its proximity to literature?

The 2003 Weasel Awards

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Click over to Dilbert to vote for your weasels of the year:

Remember that being a weasel isn’t the same as being evil. Serial killers, for example, are evil but they rank low on the weasel scale because they give you exactly what they promise. World-class weasels are people with hidden agendas and cynical motives. They’re greedy, selfish, and power-hungry and they think you’re not smart enough to stop them. Often they’re right, and that’s the most annoying thing about weasels.

Via A Small Victory.

September Top Referrers

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On the right side bar is the updated roll of Modulator’s top referrers which is based on blogs that provided 12 or more referrals in the month of September (up from 10 or more referrals last month). Statistics are culled from AWStats running on Modulator’s server at Hosting Matters.
There are 19 of you this month which is up from 15 last month. 4 blogs dropped off and 8 new ones have been added.
Thank you one and all!
Also, I’d like to acknowledge significant referrals from some of the blogosphere’s ‘service’ sites: Technorati, weblogs.com, blogrolling.com, MovableType, Blogdex, blogoshpere.us, NZ Bear’s Ecosystem and Daypop.
All of the blog rolls except the Base Roll are ordered by most recently updated so be sure to ping weblogs.com or blogrolling.com to push to the top of the rolls. These are certainly the sites I tend to look at first and visitors will see you at the top of the roll as well.
For a brief discussion of Modulator’s blog rolls look here.