“It should go with­out say­ing, but right after the first rule for linked data, “Use URIs as names for things,” I would add “Where pos­si­ble, choose names that make sense to people.””

“Unless we want to keep Amer­ica from mov­ing up the value chain, we will have less manufacturing.

True enough, espe­cially since China con­sol­i­dated a lot of lower-​​end man­u­fac­tur­ing from a lot of neigh­bor­ing Asian states, becom­ing the final assem­bler of note.

The oppos­ing school of thought says we must retain our indus­trial base or lose our fundamentals–as it were.

But here’s the trick with the man­u­fac­tur­ing lobby: many pro­duce in China as well as the U.S.”

“By the employment-​​to-​​population ratio met­ric, the reces­sion is now twice as deep as any post-​​1960 reces­sion. At 59.2%, the employment-​​to-​​population ratio stands 4.1 per­cent­age points below its Decem­ber 2006 cycli­cal high–and 5.5 per­cent­age points below its April 2000 all­time high.”

“Below are the 20 hottest ETFs (exclud­ing lever­aged funds) at the end of August, based on the 6 month per­for­mance. Data excludes lever­aged ETFs and the data source is FIN​VIZ​.com. The theme? Finan­cials, unlike last month which fea­tured China as a sta­ple. A link is avail­able on the right hand side of Scott’s Invest­ments with this data updated monthly.”

“This is stu­pid on so many lev­els that I forced myself to wait a full day before blog­ging about it so I wouldn’t rant incoherently.”

“The Supreme Court is going to decide if cor­po­ra­tions have First Amend­ment rights that allow “direct, unlim­ited cor­po­rate par­tic­i­pa­tion in cam­paigns.” Let’s hope the deci­sion is that they don’t:”

“We aggre­gate a lot of CD rate data from over twenty major banks, many of which are online banks with very good rates, but those rate tables are spread all across the site. To help you find the best rates, whether it’s across all the banks or at a spe­cific bank, we’ve aggre­gated that data here.”

“Japan­ese super­nat­ural breast-​​fixated TV, wherein a woman uses a mag­i­cal bra to fight ghosts.”

“Here is a trick that saves me a lot of typ­ing and frus­tra­tion. If you are using git, you are prob­a­bly using its branches fea­ture. If this is true, you are already aware that you need to spec­ify every time the cor­rect branch with every pull and push:”

“So you sus­pect your health/​auto/​home insurer is run by the devil, but you’re not sure whether the alter­na­tive you’re con­sid­er­ing is any bet­ter. Kiplinger Finance has posted a help­ful arti­cle on how to find the com­plaint ratio of an insurer via the National Asso­ci­a­tion of Insur­ance Com­mis­sion­ers’ web­site. Update: here’s how to file your own complaint.”