I recently discovered that the authors of the book Freakonomics have a blog where they discuss all manner of things tangentially related to economics. (Well, I say “discovered,” but I should really say “re-discovered” since the book, which I got for Christmas, specifically talks about their blog and probably gives the address somewhere, but web addresses in print rarely make it to my keyboard. The “re-discovery” happened when I found the blog via another blog via the Internet.)
They discuss such interesting tidbits as a recent three-way tie on Jeopardy, or the woman who murdered her husband after searching Google for things such as “how to commit murder,” “undetectable poisons,” and “fatal digoxin doses.” (Note that the cops didn’t subpoena Google for her search history and somehow trace it back to her or anything complicated like that—they simply searched her computer and found the queries in her browser’s history. Moral of the story: if you’re going to commit murder, don’t use Google to help you. Or at least flush your cache.)
Unrelated note: Vancouver just won! Their division lead is, for now at least, safe.
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