Links posted on October 06, 2008
Sweetened vs. Unsweetened Tea as a dividing line between Northern and Southern US - It's like the coke/pop/soda word wars in a sense. I can't tell: is VT in the Tea North or the Tea South?
PS: Regardless of cultural implications, I'm sad to report to those of you drinking your tea without sugar that you are in fact merely drinking some gross water with dirt and leaves in it. It's a fact.
“Almost no one expected what was coming. It’s not fair to blame us for not predicting the unthinkable.“ — Daniel H. Mudd, former chief executive, Fannie Mae.
I keep hearing a disturbing overconfidence in those with our prevailing political bent, and I think a lot of it is engendered by maps such as this one. Maybe you'd like an object example for everything I know about basic statistics and Model Risk? Well here it is anyway. [more inside]
I finally got around to listening to the episode of This American Life about subprime mortgages that natedogg mentioned 2 weeks ago when I heard that the same team was doing another episode about the whole economic bailout plan. If, like me, you learned a lot from the first one, you'll probably want to listen to this new one as well. [more inside]