Of the fifteen “most popular posts” at the bottom of this page, thirteen were written by AC.

Can someone, preferably, the man himself, start Michael Lewis a blog? Best known for the books Moneyball and Liar’s Poker, he’s also had articles/columns in The New York Times, Slate, The Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg, Portfolio (no author page), and almost assuredly The Wall Street Journal (again, no author page). Shouldn’t there be a central repository of all these articles in chronological order updated as a new one is published?

What inspired me to write this post, though, was the fact that he’s popped up 4 times in my RSS in the last week, so he may as well have had a blog with its own feed.

He moved his family into the biggest mansion in New Orleans to better understand the “acceptable lust” Americans have for a bigger house. He sarcastically muses about how the former CEO of Goldman has treated his former employer since becoming Secretary of the Treasury. He looks on the bright side of economic crisis. And he’s writing a book about the meltdown. Also, here’s a bonus article from last year I never got around to commenting on. This one includes the quotation, “If there’s been a theme to John’s life,” says his brother Nelson, “it’s pricing tail”, though it’s about figuring out what to charge for insurance against cataclysmic events that have less than a 1% chance of happening.

BusRyda is a mobile web app that makes it super easy to find a bus to take you somewhere at sometime. There’s even a trip planner, too. The website is designed specifically with the iPhone in mind, which makes having an iPhone even better. I think there are a lot of features that could be added to BusRyda, but it doesn’t sound like the developer is close to done. We’ll see how it grows.

(Via Bostonist)

Kos says Obama was more like Will Smith than Wesley Snipes in the first debate, which, since you know how I feel about Will Smith, should give you an indication of how I’ll be voting in November.

“Season 3 begins Oct. 1 on DIRECTV and again on NBC starting in February 2009″, which is nice.

BostonBiker has a nifty guide aimed at students riding in Boston for the first time, though in reality, it works for for anyone riding in any city.

Fluff was invented in Union Square, Somerville in 1917. For the last 3 years, Union Square has celebrated by holding a What the Fluff Festival. It’s a lot of fun with lots of activities for young and old alike. This year, there’s even a comic book. FYI, the What the Fluff Festival has changed it’s date from 9/27 to 9/28 from 4 PM to 7 PM. See you there!

Edited 9/27:
This post from Bostonist has more about the whats of this year and the whys of all years.

There’s got to be a joke in here. Think, think, think. Oh, yeah, how about… Er. I got nothing. What say you in the peanut gallery?

Buenos Aires Province is the area around Buenos Aires, but not actually in the city.

You can’t describe this, except literally. This is a video of Ben Kingsley acting as Ian MacKaye from Minor Threat/Fugazi. It’s clear they look alike, but how do you even begin to put something like this together?