Hulu Meets Keyser Soze

I have had a beta account on Hulu for a while and have been using it to watch movies and TV-shows off and on. It is by far the best site for long-form video out there. The movie selection is still small but includes a few great flicks like “The Usual Suspects,” an [...]

Economic Apocalypse Now

The NYT writes…
…Almost everything seems to be going wrong for the American economy at once. People are buying less, but most things are costing more. Mortgage rates are rising, the dollar is falling and prices of key commodities like oil are leaping from one record high to the next.
On Thursday, the dollar plumbed new [...]

SIEPR Economic Summit

I was over at the SIEPR Economic Summit on Friday and ran into Craig Newmark (Craigslist, there as panelist) and Meg Whitman (former CEO, eBay, just attending) right after I walked in the door. Also there were: Larry Summers (ex-Harvard president and Clinton-era Secretary of the Treasury), Steven Chu (Nobel prize, Physics, Berkeley), [...]

Democratic Debate – Hillary and Obama face off again

SNL is back after the writer’s strike with this pretty funny skit on the Democratic presidential debates between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Unfortunately, WordPress doesn’t let me embed this (grrr…) so please follow the link.

Audio Books

I went over to Jackson the other day and got myself the audio book version of Freakonomics. It definitely seems to call for a good occasion as the book comes on 6 CDs and takes about 7 hours to listen to. Maybe for a plane ride…I’ll see.