http://www.thegimmick.com/wordpress posts, links, and whatever else Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:30:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Revealed: the environmental impact of Google searches Performing two Google searches from a desktop computer can generate about the ... http://www.thegimmick.com/wordpress/2009/01/11/daily-links-104/ The Irish economy's rise was steep, and the fall was fast Everything, it seems, has grown worse here. The ... http://www.thegimmick.com/wordpress/2009/01/10/daily-links-103/ Can Music Predict the Stock Market's Volatility? Phil Maymin, an assistant professor of finance and risk engineering at the ... http://www.thegimmick.com/wordpress/2009/01/03/daily-links-102/ The Reckoning - WaMu Built an Empire on Bad Loans At WaMu, getting the job done meant lending money ... http://www.thegimmick.com/wordpress/2009/01/01/daily-links-101/ Skaters Jump In as Foreclosures Drain the Pool Across the nation, the ultimate symbol of suburban success has become ... http://www.thegimmick.com/wordpress/2008/12/30/daily-links-100/ What Obama's 27-Year-Old Speechwriter Learned From George W. Bush And Favreau is right, Gerson's speech for Bush that September ... http://www.thegimmick.com/wordpress/2008/12/21/daily-links-99/ 17 Pushbutton Configurations that Didn’t Make the Cut Ever wonder who came up with the order of numbers on ... http://www.thegimmick.com/wordpress/2008/12/13/daily-links-98/ Depression 2009: What would it look like? Lines at the ER, a television boom, emptying suburbs. A catastrophic economic ... http://www.thegimmick.com/wordpress/2008/11/29/daily-links-97/ The Vigorous North: The Black Belt: How Soil Types Determined the 2008 Election in the Deep South The story ... http://www.thegimmick.com/wordpress/2008/11/26/daily-links-96/ With this election almost two weeks behind us and shrinking quickly in our rearview mirror, here are the things we need to remember about the outcome. 1. It was a record turnout, right? Wrong. Despite all the claims from the Obama campaign that this was, "the most important election in your ... http://www.thegimmick.com/wordpress/2008/11/14/election-2008-truth-and-fiction/