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Texas Film Makers get Sales Tax Exemptions
What a great idea, computer equipment purchases can be sales tax free according to this from the Texas Film Comission.
Behavioral Finance 101
Great, short article on Slate by Henry Blodget about the mistakes we make when investing – which really applies to many other areas of life: Born Suckers – The greatest Wall Street danger of all: you. By Henry Blodget
Most interestingly, the Prospect Theory concept applies to many other aspects of behavior, including foraging theory and when mixed with the Confirmatory Bias, can lead to numerous costly mistakes.
Much of this work reflects recent Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman’s work (along with Amos Tversky, but Nobels aren’t awarded posthumously) .
Other notable, perhaps more readable interpretations are in Thomas Gilovich’s excellent books Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes And How To Correct Them: Lessons From The New Science Of Behavioral Economics and How We Know What Isn’t So.
Communications of the ACM on blogging
This month’s issue of CACM (Volume 47, Issue 12), arguably the highest impact Computer Science research publication has a series of articles on blogging.
The "utlimate" convergence?
I keep telling people about this story by PBS | I, Cringely . Archived Column, that I might as well link it in. Talk about your buzzword convergence, we’ve got WiFi, a TiVo killer- MythTV, community, sharing, VoIP, PBX, and copyright! Though mostly you’ve got a motivated geek.
Neighbornode: the extensible neighborhood network
Neighbornode: the extensible neighborhood network, requires just a Linksys router an old PC and some free time. Nice idea, but it seems that Austin’s own Less Networks is already there.
Anyone using either?
electric sheep screen-saver
From Philip K Dick to a distrubted processing screensaver, the electric sheep screen-saver, seems to combine part grid network technology with “the collective dream of sleeping computers from all over the internet”. Whatever, but the graphics are quite something.
Texas Book Festival
Of course, tomorrow is the beginning of the Texas Book Festival, if anything else – to prove that some of us here in Texas do in fact read.
Here’s what events look good to me:
- Saturday
- 11:45 – 12:30: H.W. Brands, Lone Star Nation
Reading and Q&A introduced by Greg Curtis
Location: Auditorium - 12:30 – 1:30:
James Ellroy: Destination: Morgue!
Jessee Sublett: Never the Same Again
Reading and Q&A introduced by Kip Stratton
Location: Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum Main Hall - 12:45 – 1:30: Dayton Duncan, Lewis and Clark
Reading and Q&A introduced by Regan Gammon
Location: Capitol Extension Room E2.028 - 2:00 – 3:00: What’s So Funny About Politics?
Jim Hightower, Let’s Stop Beating Around the Bush
Andy Borowitz, The Borowitz Report
Panel discussion by Evan Smith
Location: House Chamber - 2:15 – 3:00: Men Behaving Badly:
Adam Johnson, Parasites Like Us
Kyle Smith, Love Monkey
Jonathan Ames, Wake Up, Sir
Reading and panel discussion moderated by Neal Pollack
Location: Capitol Extension Room E2.010 - 7:00 – 9:45: Texas Book Festival After Hours: Movies
Location: Alamo Drafthouse–Downtown –
Oscar-winner Peter Bogdanovich will introduce two of his favorite films: 7 p.m.: Targets & 9:45 p.m.: Saint Jack.
- 11:45 – 12:30: H.W. Brands, Lone Star Nation
- Sunday
- What’s Cooking in Texas
John DeMers, Houston: Culinary Capital
Fernando Saralegui, Our Latin Table
Linda Bauer, Historic Recipes from Texas and American Sampler Cookbook
Panel discussion moderated by Virginia Wood
Location: Capitol Extension Room E2.014 - 12:30 – 1:15: Meghan Daum, The Quality of Life Report
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Queen of Dreams
Reading and Q&A introduced by Mary Margaret Farabee
Location: Senate Chamber - 2:00 – 2:45: Mind of a Killer
Michael McGarrity, Slow Kill
David Lindsey, The Face of the Assassin
Reading and panel discussion moderated by Gary Lavergne
Location: House Chamber
- What’s Cooking in Texas
The new phonebooks are here! The new phonebooks are here!
I’m someone! I got my first comment spam!
Why do I now have this sudden, uncomfortable urge to play online poker now?
Podcasting?
Am I the only one who doesn’t care about podcasting?
Why would I want to HEAR posts from someone when I can skim them in seconds in my RSS reader? There are so many other interesting things to listen to and it’s not like most of our voices are sonorous enough for lengthy attention.