Jarrett House NorthSecond verse, same as the first.

The Curious Cook – What’s Hot, What’s Not, in Pots and Pans (NYTimes.com) Interesting review of different cooking pans that gets deep into the science. (tags: cucina) Not Larry Sabato: RACE BAITING BY MCCAIN CAMPAIGN OFFICIAL IN VIRGINIA- UPDATED Interesting flap–a McCain campaign rep from Buchanan County, Virginia wrote a newspaper column claiming Obama wanted [...]

A tip from Jonathan Hoefler led me to the NYPL Digital Gallery, now fully searchable and browsable, with low resolution images free for non-profit use (including personal blogs, though not Wikipedia). Some really fascinating stuff, including a number of University of Virginia related items: detailed close-up shots of the pediments of East Lawn, the post-1895 [...]

My friend and undergrad classmate Erik Simpson has been following an interesting trend on Intrade, the prediction market that allows predictive “bets” on realworld events. Specifically, Intrade’s prediction results were diverging from other predictive models, specifically those of fivethirtyeight.com. More research dug up the interesting fact that Intrade doesn’t agree with other predictive markets either. [...]