Hypothetical Bias

"Nothing says TV ratings like economics"

From Sports Illustrated's The Beat:

Does having two Olympic medals automatically make you a Big Man on Campus? Joey Cheek, who won speedskating gold and silver in Turin, will find out soon enough. The 26-year-old is planning to enroll in college this fall--at Princeton, Stanford or Yale, he says--and MTV will document his exploits on Joey Cheek Goes to College, which premieres on mtvU on May 1. ... Wherever he enrolls, he's already pinned down a major. "Economics," he says. "Nothing says TV ratings like economics."

One Red Paper Clip

Bored by Pareto optimality? The Core?  The Shapley Value? 

Start trading with one red paper clip.  See http://oneredpaperclip.blogspot.com/

oreo-mercial

hypo-bias has a scoop for all those out there in hypo-land: seventh heaven (yes, i know, the show is sort of the antithesis of all things male, but...) must be getting some serious bling for pimping oreos. certainly not funny like the video ipod that michael scott gave to the GOR-geous ryan the temp. certainly annoying as sh-izzle.  but, i suppose that's what i get for watching a aaron spelling show without tiffani-amber thiessen.

and speaking of dunder mifflin, i should point out that at least dwight got my tongue-in-cheek reference to "starbuck".

'tis but thy name that is my enemy?

on the outside of a credit card solicitation i received today:

NO CONFUSING INTEREST

Just $7 a month for every $1,000 of account balance

one definition of interest: 2a. a charge for borrowed money generally a percentage of the amount borrowed.

The Phantom Professors

Blogs get academics fired (The Phantom Professor) (by the way, Appstate is a great place to work, I respect everyone here, especially the students -- even those who'll email me in a few weeks asking for extra credit after the final exam):

At about the same time this spring that people were guessing that [Elaine] Liner [a popular writing instructor] was the Phantom [The Phantom Professor], she was being told that the university no longer needed her services after the spring semester. Liner and her many student fans think that SMU is punishing her for expressing pointed opinions about the university.