Moonballs from Planet Earth
Tuesday, 26 February 2008
Culling elephants
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The South African government has decided to kill several thousand elephants to keep the elephant population within sustainable limits. Ar...
Saturday, 16 February 2008
My Family Owns a House in Telluride
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Sometimes, things come together. Time, place, people, thought, soft afternoon sunshine, salty sea spray - everything - everything comes toge...
Friday, 8 February 2008
360 degree feedback: is there a trade-off between usefulness and transparency?
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The company I work for has a well-entrenched culture of 360 degree feedback. Five years ago, this feedback was often pointed and tended to e...
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Monday, 4 February 2008
Tear-free shampoo and the frightening guest
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Took my daughters swimming on Sunday. Showered many blessings on the wonderful person who invented tear-free shampoo. And reflected that th...
Sunday, 3 February 2008
Fixing match fixing
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This is absurd. The organizers of the French Open are sueing online betting sites (including Betfair - the site I use) to prevent betting o...
Friday, 1 February 2008
Tintin
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Found a superb article on Tintin in a back issue of the New Yorker, by Anthony Lane. The highlights: - General de Gaulle declared that Ti...
Sunday, 27 January 2008
Guru
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This movie is about Bollywood telling India what Deng Xiaoping so successfully told China: "to get rich is glorious." Bollywood ...
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