These are my links for June 26th through July 9th:
- For Firstborns, Secondhand Fits the Bill – THIS new frugality is celebrated by anti-consumerism groups, dreaded by retailers, and mused over by social scientists who say we might be on the cusp of raising a new generation of depression-era babies. Not only are children named after their grandparents these days, but all those Rubys, Sadies and Harrys at the playgrounds may end up thinking like them as well.
- For Firstborns, Secondhand Fits the Bill – THIS new frugality is celebrated by anti-consumerism groups, dreaded by retailers, and mused over by social scientists who say we might be on the cusp of raising a new generation of depression-era babies. Not only are children named after their grandparents these days, but all those Rubys, Sadies and Harrys at the playgrounds may end up thinking like them as well.
- WNYC – The Leonard Lopate Show: Back to Basics (July 08, 2009) – Awesome. Got to pick this up.
- Historical Database: Spreads/Totals – Sports Handicapping, Betting & Picks – SBR Forum –
- NCAA Basketball Tournament Bracket and Results – databaseSports.com – Here we go, what I'm looking for.
- Football Results, Statistics & Soccer Betting Odds Data – soccer statistics
- The Man Who Shook Up Vegas – WSJ.com – But what separates Mr. Stoll from these professionals and makes him so frightening to bookmakers is that he's not hoarding his information — he's distributing it to the public. In fact, anyone who wants Mr. Stoll's advice can visit his Web site, drbobsports.com, and buy a subscription package for anywhere from $25 to $2,495. All that pandemonium on Thursdays in Las Vegas was no coincidence: That's the day Mr. Stoll sends an email to his subscribers telling them which college football teams to bet on the following weekend.
- 7 lbs Pizza With 4.5 Inches of Topping | SadAndUseless.com – This is the most disgusting thing, food wise, I've ever seen!
- Op-Ed Columnist – The Best Kids’ Books Ever – NYTimes.com – A mountain of research points to a central lesson: Pry your kids away from the keyboard and the television this summer, and get them reading.
- Technology Review: New Drug Kills Cancer with Few Side Effects – The drug, called olaparib, is the first success story from a new and highly personalized approach to anticancer drug development. This strategy harnesses a concept known as synthetic lethality, in which a drug is designed to work in tandem with the molecular glitch underlying a specific kind of cancer.
- Kodachrome Fades to Black – WSJ.com – Digital technology has transformed picture-making and much else about contemporary life. The pace of change shows no signs of slowing down. But photography, by preserving figments of the present for the future, is innately elegiac.
- Seneca the Younger – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – The older I get the more classics, history, and biographies I read.
- Florida High Speed Rail – The Florida High Speed Rail Authority website.
- California High-Speed Rail – The California High Speed Rail main website
- Manhood for Amateurs: The Wilderness of Childhood – The New York Review of Books – People read stories of adventure—and write them—because they have themselves been adventurers. Childhood is, or has been, or ought to be, the great original adventure, a tale of privation, courage, constant vigilance, danger, and sometimes calamity. – AMEN! Kids needs to be outside exploring their world, its wonderful out there Hobbes!
- L.A. Firm Wins Design Contract for $2B Underground High-Speed Rail Terminus in Hong Kong – Real Estate Channel Global News Center – Hong Kong-based Mass Transit Railway Corp. Ltd. has selected AECOM Technology Corp. (NYSE: ACM) of Los Angeles, CA and its joint venture partner to design the project.
The design contract is for $82 million. AECOM's revenue from this project is expected to be about US $38 million, the company says in a prepared statement.
The multi-level terminus will have a footprint of more than 25 acres with a topside commercial development north of the proposed West Kowloon Cultural District – between the existing Airport Railway Kowloon Station and the West Rail Austin Station. – THIS IS GOING TO ROCK!
