Moneyball - the art of winning an unfair game. Michael Lewis After reading this book, you'll never be able to listen to sports commentary the same way again. In fact, you'll never be able to read the financial or business pages the same way again. Moneyball debunks...

Amazon.com's founder is a study in contradictions -- analytical and intuitive, careful and audacious, playful and determined. What really makes this remarkable entrepreneur tick? Read the Fast Company profile.

Bleeding Edge raised my ire recently by suggesting that perhaps the problem with ethics in business was that schools don't place enough emphasis on teaching ethics to their students. Oh dear oh dear Charles, you've got me started. Maybe I'll never stop now. You've...

I feel somewhat ambivalent about linking to this piece. I found it really moving and the title grabbed me straight in when I saw it. I think you might like it. At the same time, this last couple of weeks I have been too tired to write a lot and linking to this piece...

Crooked Timber points out the UK government's (quite proper in our view) concern that ordinary citizens are not equiped to tell the difference between reality and parody.

Here's an interesting site showing a prediction of the electoral college based on the latest polls.

Interested? Have a look

Here's a wiki for teachers. Creator, Rob Lucas, has this to say by way of introduction: I

I'm really disappointed in the commentary on the Victorian [Australia] governments release of the "On Track" survey showing the paths that 2003 Year 12 students have taken this year. Not surprisingly the survey has found that a greater proportion of students from...

Scribblingwoman has been writing about her trip to England. This entry is worth it just for the dialogue right at the end with 'Jinker Boy'.