Ramblings for 2008-05-13

Racked: Street Scenes: Raphael on West 14th Street The fuckin bag spoils the pic... Things younger than Republican Presidential candidate Teflon etc etc Military Photos: Gunsmoke The A-10 thunderbolt... the only true pilot's plane remaining... the rest are all partially flown by computer... Armor: Arjun Back From The Dead I used to believe the hype when I was a kid... Submarines: Corrupt Kilo Copies Clobbered Imitation is the best form of flattery The Old New Thing : In Lisbon, walk/don't walk signs are mostly decorative Sounds like India... Is Harvard Just a Tax-Free Hedge Fund? | Economics | The American Scene "Viewed purely in terms of economics, Harvard is really a $40 billion tax-free hedge fund with a very large marketing and PR arm called Harvard University that has the job of raising the investment capital and protecting the fund's preferential tax trea Grasping Reality with Both Hands: The Semi-Daily Journal Economist Brad DeLong "in 1960, the University of California--then overwhelmingly UCB and UCSF and UCLA--was about four times the size of Harvard, 5000 vs. 1200 undergraduates a year, with graduate students and faculty roughly in proportion. Clark Kerr, as president of the University of California in the 1960s, took a look at space constraints in Berkeley and Westwood, took a look at the rising population of California, took a look at increasing wealth, took a look at increasing educational attainment, took a look at the increasing attractiveness of American universities to people abroad, and conclude that the number of undergraduate students who could and would want to take full advantage of a UC education was going to grow eightfold over the next fifty years. So he decided to go all-out to clone UCB and UCLA. And he did it. Today we have UC Davis, UC Merced, UC Santa Barbara, UC Santa Cruz, UC Sunnydale, UC Irvine, UC Riverside, UC San Diego which together with UCB and UCLA graduate 40,000 undergraduates a year. Quality of education at UCB and UCLA has suffered a little bit as this cloning process has diverted resources away from us--but only by a very little bit." ........... ........... Harvard, over the same fifty-year time span... Harvard has gone from 1200 undergraduates a year to 1600, and has done so in spite of starting with a substantial endowment and receiving $15B of private charitable gifts" Sudden Debt: Food Stamps and The Un-Adjusted Economy Georgia Dept of labor FAQ LOL BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Aussie straps in beer, not child LOL Yahoo! Internet Location Platform - YDN