the Daily Whale - archive 2008

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The world as a whole is too big to fail. Better prop it up, Archimedes-style.



January February March
1 stop counting joy graffiti
2 Kenya and Pakistan Guitar Hero multitasking
3 anything stupid rumor of truth too rich
4 instruction and destruction birthrates quiz laziness 1
5 mercy to tangle laziness 2
6 understand yourself not a toy too stupid
7 out of the box vernant vermination good news quiz
8 confusion campaign slogan fishing
9 Strait of Hormuz moment of sirens envelope
10 declarative programming peak oil hypergolic
11 logic programming bilious fudge doesn't matter
12 procedural programming debatable quiz top-down
13 delegate knowledge opposite of awkward never give up
14 Oulipo humanity's future three sides
15 new ideas perfect imperfection deep knowledge
16 simplicial complex transcendental Bare Sterns
17 memory burner working together snowballing losses
18 carbon star satellite shootdown bank run
19 one good reason restitution user interface quiz
20 confluence of indigents out of the bag multiparadigm
21 dead at 64 cost overrun resistance
22 mass market civilization light feet
23 face backward insight product description quiz
24 Romanticism hair quiz Ma Ying-jeou
25 public speaking virtual hardware constituents
26 electrons and holes cleanliness air castle
27 rogue trader competition to cooperation virtual virtuality
28 rogue trader 2 industry standard everything changes
29 once regret mighty Gorgonzola
30 unconscious knowledge if you were dead
31 irresponsible men your cult
April May June
1 they laughed entitlement quiz post-apocalyptic
2 negative cost 1 industry standard carbon footprint
3 negative cost 2 climb Parnassus blood is thick
4 concord permission success
5 new insight imperfectible 90% of everything
6 to denounce cell phone permitted by law
7 missed opportunities cell tower you can imagine
8 tentative sleep schedules hemispheres
9 workarounds auto styling exact science
10 if repeated enough thoroughness diatoms
11 analogy cards Answer Bot: food prices horror movie
12 don't learn from brainwashing Beary Bashe
13 growing up microwave vice stardust
14 flexible modular design lives are like digital carpet
15 what I'm doing like everyone digital ideas
16 poison the Earth glib slogans making ends meet
17 PhD weird shape not appropriate
18 spectator sport safety catch walk away quiz
19 the eye of the shaving recover
20 carbon copy the future context
21 fear of humans International Date Line attention
22 fetid swamp free imagination scarce attention
23 fair quiz test run fatal blunders
24 do unto Phoenix quiz fearsome
25 the right thing in a shell -less
26 civil debate attitude control fortunes
27 save up my patience geek parents to-do quiz
28 inventions you can help truly understand it
29 superhuman everyone's limit colorful factoids
30 primitive alcholism books ineffective
31 prison
July August September
1 the economy, stupid chance quiz transience
2 nothing empirical legendary same old smarts
3 more complicated down the tubes get used to
4 solve for happiness official substitute fere
5 aimless long blue hair paper cut
6 computer error quiz mono no aware relevance quiz
7 ions, icons, tons furtheronwardmore aversion
8 essence of science televangelists lose your innocence
9 theory of stories ambiguity outsource moral hazard
10 stories vision statements deadline
11 FISA story procrastination cholerical error
12 airline service patience classic excuse
13 teach delegation so far behind shy: smirk
14 schoolbooks NATO world culture
15 have a plan invasion method not everything
16 Luther's theses cyberwar press release
17 copyright message sending machine translation
18 how to walk paranoia conversion efficiency
19 alternating currency raw material what matters
20 deviate from expectations omit needless confidence game
21 upload sitting invisible hand
22 same mistake twice martial arts financial know-how
23 general rule not hardly first amendment
24 pumice quiz cloud computing information security
25 law of the jingle illiquid assets controlling fear
26 life directed by know everything speculative bubble
27 remain calm on your mind national debt
28 cosmic warming disruptive innovations real economy 1
29 loyal opposition Heraclitus real economy 2
30 haiku live once bailout bill
31 spontaneous election analysis
October November December
1 gamblin' man means of optimism turning inward
2 thorough/through market crash satisfaction
3 boredom panic truth, falsehood
4 Skype writing reform follow-through
5 has-been election implacable implications
6 pirate attack Obama quiz general principle
7 convoy 1 legal notices opposite of opposite
8 convoy 2 perseverance so many words
9 failed star mischief perfective
10 eurozone too serious diffuse
11 earning their pearls number two loser don't wish for
12 glass bridges going forward basis Unintended Consequences
13 Lehman Brothers serial monodoxasticism financial crocodiles
14 leverage overgeneralization weather control
15 time machines house divided commuting
16 theory of everything simulations get away
17 Neel Kashkari standardization shoes
18 parse arrogance regenerative breaking
19 Brazil and India genius vs. idiot face recognition
20 vain regrets wireless mesh fireflies
21 turning it off future-proofing entropy
22 the right theory bullying Enceladus
23 memorize it all famous for what? caricature
24 gradual events piracy heard it here
25 spinning controlling chaos taking forever
26 full understanding omit words free will
27 economic forecast abyss toxic loans
28 congressional hearing bloodbath truer than ever
29 sanity mind control heavy consonants
30 Google Books overconfidence corpse computer
31 zero risk reconditioned pancakes
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