The Price Is Always Right – MITs Real-Time Inflation Index.

There's a lot of criticism of the Consumer Price Index, including suspicion that it's intentionally gamed to further political agenda. Instead, MIT has created an index that uses Internet purchases to measure inflation.

...using the same reporting and writing techniques as more traditional journalists.

via Internet Evolution - CMO Clan Editors Blog - Why Intel Went Into the Journalism Business.

Time to bite the hands that have fed me, but this is important: When a Marketing/PR department has editorial control over a technical article …

In my most recent column for SD Times, I discuss recent disappointing events in the world of the DLR and suggest that Microsoft's internal competitiveness is creating too much chaos.

Resolver Systems: News.

I love Resolver One (I just wish it ran on systems under than Windows!), the Python-powered spreadsheet that allows you to combine spreadsheet-style computing with Python code.

Now, Resolver Systems has moved the concept up towards grid computing. If you've got some Big Data challenges, it might …

Paul Graham once suggested that startups pose their mission statement as a question. Google's question might have been "Will the PageRank algorithm deliver results that are so good that they lure users away from Altavista?"

via 2010/09/concept.md at master from raganwald's homoiconic - GitHub.

My great lesson from …

There's a pretty good comet visible near the easy-to-find constellation Cassiopeia (the big "M" or "W" in the Northern sky). It's brightness is listed as magnitude 5.7, which ought to be visible with binoculars if you aren't too close to bright lights. (If you have really dark skies and …

Yavin IV: Exploring space on the cheap with an iPhone, Droid, and Flip.

Apparently, even on a very windy day, you can send a weather balloon up 100,000' and when it bursts and you parachute the payload down, you've still only covered about 75 miles. Hmm....

WordPress › WordPress 3.0 "Thelonious".

This is a major update, but it looks like to take advantage of several of the components, you have to switch to the default "2010" theme.

Calculated Risk: Q2 Flow of Funds: Household Net Worth off \$12.3 Trillion from Peak.

Not that lost equity has to be paid off (although I knew too many people who used their homes as ATMs during the early 00s), but just in terms of morale, the loss of \$12 …

It sounds like someone designed a programming language with the express intention of intriguing me:

FunLoft is an experimental language for concurrent programming, designed with the following objectives:

• make concurrent programming simpler by providing a framework with a clear and sound semantics.
• provide a safe language, in which, for example …