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October 07:

AGE OF RICHES

$6 Million for the Co-op, Then Start to Renovate

“There’s the new rich and there’s the old rich. There’s the poor rich and the rich rich.”

What would you do with $25,000? Buy a new Toyota Camry? Pay for six months at Harvard?

Instead, how about some really fancy chocolate?

THE NEW YORK TIMES WILL LOCATE EXEMPLARY PRODIGALITY. IT IS SPIRITUALLY NECESSARY. - George (Bush) Bataille




October 08:
As one former dancer observed, if a stripper is doing her job right, the patron’s bald spot, his mortgage (and maybe even his huge portfolio losses) cease to exist.

Prometheus must pay for the thankless mammaries

Over at Open Access News, Peter Suber notes that high energy Physics, among other fields, benefits from access to previous research. Anyone who gives a damn about knowledge might see his point.

ARTstor, JSTOR, Project Mute and other pay-per-view dispensers turn human knowing into cognitive lap dances.