"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 FINVIZ.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."