Chris Martenson | chapters - The Crash Course - chapters, Crash Course, Economy, Energy, environment, Peak Oil, videos

Chris Martenson | chapters - The Crash Course - chapters, Crash Course, Economy, Energy, environment, Peak Oil, videos

I don't agree with everything, but do agree with most - there is a lot about basic macroeconomics which most of us (including myself) don't know. And it's kind of scary.

sqworl | Money stuff

Money stuff

I made myself a sqworl group on financial blogs...
www.sqworl.com has the basic mechanism for creation.

This is my core home page on financial commentary.

Lots of good stuff. Sorry that Setser is no longer blogging, but it's great that he's putting his powers to work for good, not evil...

Convert DVD to iPod

Convert DVD to iPod

On the PC there are a myriad of crappy and hard to use freeware solutions and a smaller set of quasi-commercial solutions. Should just be "one touch" like with some Mac programs (e.g. visual hub...)

DVD decrypter and Videora seem to work well. I had a little problem with Videora on Vista after using it for years on an XP machine...

This page links to both as downloads and provides step-by-step instructions to convert.

Start Playing Guitar Home Page

Start Playing Guitar Home Page

Back on the music front... I've been enjoying the vicarious pleasure of fake music from RockBand. Seriously thinking about trying to make actual music. This site is pretty comprehensive, all the way from rent/buy? Acoustic/electric? Lessons of various sorts and sources for TAB and music books. Maintenance etc.

Economagic: Economic Time Series Page

Economagic: Economic Time Series Page

more than 200,000 time series for which data and custom charts can be retrieved. Though the greatest utility of this site is the vast number of economic time series, and the easily modified charts of that same data, an overlooked facility of great utility is the availability of Excel files for all series.

Bank Loan Performance

Bank Loan Performance

Excellent compilation of data & presentation in an interactive visual!

Zero Hedge: A common sense guide to investing

Zero Hedge: A common sense guide to investing

Don't agree with all of it, but it's a fabulous start. Perhaps I will work on writing my own version.

Op-Ed Columnist - How to Raise Our I.Q. - NYTimes.com

Op-Ed Columnist - How to Raise Our I.Q. - NYTimes.com

Reporting on “Intelligence and How to Get It” by Richard Nisbett, a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan.

Recent data suggest that IQ is less genetically determined than thought by conventional wisdom. Could be possible to develop programs which appear to have significant ability to increase IQ in early childhood.

Openmindedness video

Wolfram|Alpha

Wolfram|Alpha

will be launching in May 2009. I am looking forward to it! Wolfram is a very bright guy, though his multi year frolic into cellular automata seems like it might have been a stretch... kind of like mastering Rubik's cube. Hard, fun, cool but ultimately not all that useful.

A guide to the 100 best blogs - part I - Times Online

A guide to the 100 best blogs - part I - Times Online

Bryan Appleyard's list.

naked capitalism: Irving Fisher's Debt Deflation Theory and Its Relevance Today

naked capitalism: Irving Fisher's Debt Deflation Theory and Its Relevance Today

“Finally, I would emphasise the important corollary, of the debt-deflation theory, that great depressions are curable and preventable through reflation and stabilisation.”

Top 10 Signs Of Evolution In Modern Man - The List Universe

Top 10 Signs Of Evolution In Modern Man - The List Universe

Sense About Science

Sense About Science

Got questions? They got answers...

The Cathedral and the Bazaar

The Cathedral and the Bazaar

The manifesto explaining why open source software works.

Entrepreneurship Corner: Stanford University's free podcasts and video clips of entrepreneurial thought leaders and innovators from Silicon Valley.

Entrepreneurship Corner: Stanford University's free podcasts and video clips of entrepreneurial thought leaders and innovators from Silicon Valley.

Lots of free podcasts & videos. There is some valuable info in and amongst this sea of data...

DISQUS

DISQUS | Turn Blog Comments into a Webwide Discussion with a Powerful Comment System

Since no one has ever left a comment on my blog, it's not immediately relevant. I've been impressed by it when I've run across, though, and would encourage blogs to consider it.

Anderson Organizing Systems

Anderson Organizing Systems

No idea if this is any good, but talks a good game. I am remarkably productive despite being massively unorganized... with some trepidation I'm considering engaging such a service. [why trepidation? perhaps I have comfort in my clutter...?]

Giant Pool of Money

This American Life aired a one hour show in May 2008 on the subprime mess.

The Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made - Reviews - Movies - New York Times

The Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made - Reviews - Movies - New York Times

Subjective, of course, but a good place to start. There
are a lot of bad movies. Also plenty of "genre" movies that
might appeal. E.g. do you find the View Askew movies entertaining (anything with Jay & Silent Bob, like Clerks, or Dogma, or Chasing Amy...)? They aren't on
this list but that's ok.

For genre films, the American Film Institute recently released their list of the top 10 films of all time for
ANIMATION
ROMANTIC COMEDIES
WESTERN
SPORTS
MYSTERY
FANTASY
SCI-FI
GANGSTER
COURTROOM DRAMA
EPIC

The Best Free Software - Reviews by PC Magazine

The Best Free Software - Reviews by PC Magazine

Current state of all the good stuff that you can get for free. Plenty of apps. I love Audacity!

Many Eyes

Many Eyes

Ooh! Some very pretty visualization tools. Not sure yet whether it's easy to do useful viz, but pretty for certain.

Accidental Wisdom: The Real Truth About Barack Obama!

Accidental Wisdom: The Real Truth About Barack Obama!

I am an Obama supporter. This site is clearly pro-Obama, but has links & citations to back up its points. It attempts to rebut many of the emails circulating, many of which make anti-Obama claims but without complete truthiness behind them...

Calais - Overview

Calais - Overview

All content, connected, semantically tagged...

automagically adding semantic metadata.

What kind of errors? Adaptation?

I'm frankly rather intrigued by this...

The Ebb and Flow of Movies: Box Office Receipts 1986 - 2007 - The New York Times

The Ebb and Flow of Movies: Box Office Receipts 1986 - 2007 - The New York Times

Phenomenal use of graphics to display information. In case you care about box office...

I don't, particularly, but I do love innovation in visualization.

Project Implicit�

Project Implicit�

Pretty sophisticated methodology for teasing out true beliefs (as compared with self-reported & possibly delusional beliefs...)

Caveman blues - Times Online

Caveman blues - Times Online

Why do we seem to "need" more stuff?

Probably evolutionary...?

The jumping hankerchief mouse at monkey see monkey do

The jumping hankerchief mouse at monkey see monkey do

OK, is this really "best practice"? It sure is a fun little toy, making you popular with any kids you show this off to, especially if you are at an otherwise boring event with nice linen napkins...

Song Lyrics & more

Lyrics Freak is my first stop.

From Yahoo Song Lyrics on Yahoo! Music

Also, look for Find Me a Tune or
All the Lyrics (go down to the forums for help in identifying a song from partial lyrics... users like to show off their knowledge!).

And for automagic identification, check out Tunatic which,if your sound source is connected to the computer, will try to match what's playing to its database.

MasterGuitar

MasterGuitar

Expensive, but the rep is that this is the best guitar instruction course. I might buy it and try to make some music. Not sure I can commit the time right now, though... hence am holding off.