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Friday, August 20, 2004

music makes you smarter

it’s official, at least officially released from the american psychological society, there’s a formal study [pdf] that suggests that kids that study music get smarter.

this, of course, means we can blame the cuts in arts programs (particularly music programs) in the schools for the all the recent stupid.

posted by roj at 4:32 am  

Thursday, August 19, 2004

Isidro Lopez

tejano

posted by roj at 4:02 pm  

Thursday, August 19, 2004

the end of the modern olympics

this is “yet another thing” i’ll need to come back and visit in some depth someday, but i think we’re watching the plateau of the modern olympic games.

this is a symptom.

i just don’t think it’s viable at this scale under these circumstances anymore. the revenue model is flawed, the production costs are extreme, and it seems to me that we’re real close to the break point.

posted by roj at 5:42 am  

Thursday, August 19, 2004

Elmer Bernstein

composer

posted by roj at 5:37 am  

Thursday, August 19, 2004

rnc protesters: don’t forget your t-shirt

with shipping time, you’ll need to order your i wasn’t using my civil rights anyway t-shirts (and other stuff) soon to get it in time to be detained in new york during the republican convention.

this, of course, is shameless self-promotion, but it’s important to keep ashcroft in mind while the party faithful are cheering and bush isn’t seeing any opposition.

posted by roj at 5:31 am  

Thursday, August 19, 2004

electoral vote status on the right

i’ve added a button on the right column to provide more realistic election-status information than seems to be available from the major media and their nation-wide polls. yes, it’s a statistical tie when you ask everyone, but some votes count more than others, and the electoral college votes are the only ones that count at all.

this handy button, provided by electoral-vote.com gives a different perspective. hopefully one that is a little closer to what matters in this election year.

update: if that’s not what you came looking for… maybe these will help.

posted by roj at 5:25 am  

Thursday, August 19, 2004

Sune Karl Bergstrom

biochem

posted by roj at 12:48 am  

Thursday, August 19, 2004

Shizuo Kakutani

math

posted by roj at 12:47 am  

Thursday, August 19, 2004

Carl Mydans

the camera eye

[bad month for photographers]

posted by roj at 12:47 am  

Thursday, August 19, 2004

valuing google

back in april i wrote about google shooting for an e-billion dollar ipo. and i mentioned a number that i thought was nicer. reuters is now running the ipo story.

what magic number do reuters and the meta-roj blog have in common? $1.6 billion. (ok, technically, the ipo came in at $1.67 billion and i was shooting for $1.62 billion, but…. man. i’m just that good 🙂 ).

for more serious information on the google valuation, maybe here.

posted by roj at 12:16 am  
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