Newmark's Door

Keira Knightley's dad wants things for her that I think most fathers wouldn't want for their daughters.

Perhaps some progress in determining what causes Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

"How many business schools can say their Dean is a major rap artist?" The Columbia Business School Follies "does" Glenn Hubbard in "Dean Dean Baby". It's the bomb, yo.

Or, for you macroeconomics fans, try the Dean's smackdown of Ben Bernanke in "Every Breath You Take", on the same page. (This is a 28 meg file; I suggest downloading and playing it from your hard drive.)

Links via Mark Thoma at Economist's View.

Interesting look at working for Microsoft, including a claim that top managers are excellent but middle managers are terrible.

It looks kinda like a market failure, but I don't believe in (most) market failures: shouldn't the car companies and locksmiths be able to figure out a cheaper way of replacing "smart" keys?

"The Pleasure of Finding Things Out": wonderful--except for maybe the part where he trashes social science--50-minute documentary about the late Richard Feynman.

Only on the Internet: "Pimp My Snack".

It's hard to be hot at the U. of Chicago.

Immerse yourself in one of Canada's signal contributions to world culture--not hockey, not Molson--poutine. (Link via Metafilter.)

The Door's forecasting track record is, admittedly, mixed. But recall this prediction from April 10:

A prediction you can take to the bank: in the next couple of weeks some of the intellectual giants of our Congress will notice that gasoline prices have risen appreciably recently and they will demand yet another investigation into "price-gouging" and "obscene oil industry profits".

I claim full credit: the Washington Post, April 22:

Congressional leaders yesterday planned to ask President Bush to order investigations into possible price gouging by oil companies as crude oil prices hit new highs on world markets and average gasoline prices in the nation's capital blew through the $3-a-gallon mark.

(And to think, I'm giving these pearls away!)