Morning Reading 4.9.2012

Morning Reading
The impact of cities - Marginal Revolution (Alex Tabarrok)
http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2012/04/new-cities.html

Lakes and Oceans - XKCD
http://xkcd.com/1040/large/

More saber rattling over the South China Sea . . . what could possibly go wrong? - Wall Street Journal (Brian Spegele)
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2012/04/09/chinese-general-philippines-faces-last-chance/?mod=WSJBlog

Bonus Evening Edition

What is the Vix signalling? - Vix and More (Bill Luby)
http://vixandmore.blogspot.com/2012/04/vix-premium-to-spx-historical.html

Ok, normally I don't actually care if you like what I post or not.  I try to get stuff you will like and keep out stuff you won't, but I actually will shed a tear if you don't think this is awesome . . .
http://ordak-ordak.blogspot.com/

Morning Reading 4.4.2012

Anonymous on the March - Josh Chin (Wall Street Journal)
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2012/04/04/anonymous-hacks-chinese-government-websites/?mod=WSJBlog

Meme Competition - (Scientific Reports)
http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/120329/srep00335/full/srep00335.html

Morning Reading 4.3.2012

Morning Reading
littleBits Ted Talk
http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2012/04/the-littlebits-ted-talk.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AVc+%28A+VC%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

Surprising Probability Estimate of the Day - Alex Tabarrok (Marginal Revolution)
http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2012/04/surprising-probability-estimate-of-the-day.html

Morning Reading 3.30.2012

Morning Reading
I struggle in trying to decide if different cultures are really that different.  At the end of the day, we are all humans and have certain tenancies as a result.  I can't tell if this proves my point or proves it wrong, but it does something, that's for sure.  Perhaps unfair to judge from one video, but at the very least it seems Chinese men are better dancers than Chinese women, probably the opposite of the "West". - Ministry of Tofu
http://www.ministryoftofu.com/2012/03/videos-viral-chinese-song-inspires-queer-funny-dances-and-outdoor-workouts/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MiniTofublog+%28Ministry+of+Tofu+-+Featured+Articles%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

Is there a better example of a product that only comes from places where the people that use it want to go? iPad owners as a whole probably don't want to go to China, but tea drinkers probably want to go to all the places tea comes from (which are on the whole "exotic").  Is this actually true? - Uncornered Market
http://www.uncorneredmarket.com/2012/03/tea-gardens-bangladesh-panorama/

Back to the first point, would US press (or Americans in general for that matter) call someone a "chubby girl"?  Perhaps so. - Ministry of Tofu
http://www.ministryoftofu.com/2012/03/facebooks-zuckerberg-on-vacation-in-shanghai-netizens-chatter/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MiniTofublog+%28Ministry+of+Tofu+-+Featured+Articles%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

Morning Reading 3.27.2012

Morning Reading
Is China still a Police State? - Seeing Red in China (Tom?)
http://seeingredinchina.com/2012/03/26/china-is-still-a-police-state/

Sorry if I haven't posted other articles about this, but the Chongking drama is really getting out of hand:
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2012/03/27/chongqing-mystery-who-was-neil-heywood/?mod=WSJBlog

Nokia stores selling non-Nokia phones? - Isidor's Fugue (Brian Glucroft)
http://www.isidorsfugue.com/2012/03/nokia-stores-selling-variety-of-phones.html

Morning Reading 3.26.2012

Morning Reading
In case you haven't been keeping up with these . . . - Book Dedications (Wayne Gooderham)
http://bookdedications.wordpress.com/2012/03/26/a-literate-passion-letters-of-anais-nin-henry-miller-1932-1953-ed-by-gunther-stuhlmann/

Debating a Hard Landing - Patrick Chovanec (Patrick Chovanec)
http://chovanec.wordpress.com/2012/03/24/debating-a-hard-landing/

Calculated Risk on Propublica on Fannie and Freddie (Meta) - Calculated Risk Blog
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2012/03/propublica-fannie-and-freddie-principal.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CalculatedRisk+%28Calculated+Risk%29