Change in style: link-dumping

So I am well ensconced into normal school life now, learning about Latin America, the US, and Probability. Part of normal life means not enough time to condense my thoughts into the beautiful prose that you were reading over the course of last semester. Instead, I think I'm going to start using this as a more traditional blog, eg a way for me to disseminate the cool/interesting/important things that I read without having to interrupt all my friends' email lives.

Highlights from my google reader today:

1. This seems sort of disturbing. Did you know that Wyoming and Nevada are huge tax shelters, and even more secretive than Bermuda or Switzerland? Last week's Economist

2. Visualizations! This person's coming to Swat next week :-D