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Saturday, May 11, 2013

WSJ Links

WSJ Links

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Section D (Off Duty):
  • Some interesting recipes.
Section C (Review):
  • Oh, yes, a must visit: the French viaduct -- the highest road deck in Europe when it was built; if you do nothing else today, take a look at the photograph of this stunning bit of work (then imagine the bullet train in California -- for which they have not even yet bought the land).  If you cannot access the WSJ article, google Millau Viaduct.
  • Book review, "The American Iliad" --  The Guns at Last Light, Rick Atkinson, the third and concluding volume of his history of the US experience fighting in Europe between 1942 and 1945 (fewer years to enter and conclude a war than it will take President Obama to make a decision on one pipeline; what a loser.)
  • Book Review: Wow, having just read James Gleick's The Information, and George Dyson's Turing's Cathedral, this new book, Surfaces and Essences, by Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander looks awesome. The argument that analogy-making is the basis of all thought is explored. The reference to "The Analogue World" is very, very interesting.
  • Book review: Wow, it just keeps getting better: now a review of Imperial Dreams by Tim Gallagher, the search for the imperial woodpecker, which, at two feet tall, is the largest woodpecker that ever lived, and has not been seen in more than half a century.
Section B (Business & Finance):
  • McDonald's dumps the Angus burger.  People don't visit McDonald's for good food. They go there for Ronald McDonald (the kids), the play area (the kids), cheap food (all of us), locality (they are everywhere), free wi-fi (road warriors). But folks don't go to McDonald's for Angus burgers. For a real hamburger there are a dozen other choices, including Ruth's Chris Steak House, no doubt.
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