the Daily Whale - archive 2013

Jay Scott : Daily Whale : archive : 2013

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1999	1998				1991-1994
Zero, one, two, three... the digits are here, but somebody seems to have mixed up the order.


	January	February	March
1	baseless rumor	louder than words	Scenario Free Europe
2	fiscal cliff deal	fish in a barrel	Europe’s leaders
3	low resolution	valveless pulsejet	government design
4	boring parts	Occam’s Beard	portray boredom
5	learn creativity	inside our heads	business school
6	state secrets privilege	tragic flaw	crisis quiz
7	J.P. Morgan	drone attacks 1	cure hiccups
8	population inversion	drone attacks 2	no initiative
9	complacent	horizon	reality
10	tortious	single-stream recycling	bad customer service
11	write what you...	confusion	a new pontoon
12	more and short	genre	accomplish some work
13	soft power	get-up-and-go	FATCAT 1
14	heel and list	poison and metal	FATCAT 2
15	Aaron Swartz 1	Islamists	cyberdefense
16	Aaron Swartz 2	meteor defense	to be or not to be
17	wild horses	unlimited potential	Socrates
18	achieve civilization	funeral customs	falling for it
19	screwdriver	confused world	failure of diplomacy
20	call for help	your own way	adult
21	naturally artificial	practicality quiz	science convergence
22	forbidden things	teleprompter	metrics 1
23	Standard Model	to each	metrics 2
24	instinct	lying to kids	metrics 3
25	Dodgy-Knees	encourage stopping	metrics 4
26	ignored	the new normal	impossibility proofs
27	bad apples quiz	can’t beat them	phone etiquette
28	second	conquer Europe	not complicated
29	pact for virtue		invasive species
30	Deep Pact Inspection		cry at weddings
31	confront reality		Bob Dylan

	April	May	June
1	15 years	benzyne	patent patents
2	special days	concrete abstract	effortlessness
3	to realize it	the important work	Sagittarius A*
4	lost decade futures	afraid of changes	made of air
5	economy	direct democracy	great book
6	space launches	a polite society	happily ever after
7	unconscious bias	emendations	words I’ve beeped
8	into English	brain scan	NSA
9	autobiography	license plate reader	costly-for-all
10	used to anything	bandwagon	Chinese Dream
11	North Korea	multiplicative money	military-industrial complex
12	sustainable power	cutting corners	regulation
13	people too	Mars One quiz	sense of justice
14	pure snow	does not kill me	zettabytes
15	authority	eternal life	disinformation campaign
16	regulatory capture 1	powerlessness corrupts	eye in a pyramid
17	regulatory capture 2	programming tasks	National Security Letter
18	security theater 1	problem to opportunity	helplessness
19	security theater 2	unidentifiable noises	Erdogan
20	security theater 3	real-time problem	gains of Keynes
21	Boston	conspiracy theorists	exhausted
22	regulatory capture 3	AP phone records	is it legal?
23	regulatory capture 4	free press	Google
24	regulatory capture 5	rule of law 1	world domination
25	regulatory capture 6	rule of law 2	invert the implementation
26	stupid overlords	rule of law 3	touched in the head
27	narrative fearlessness	widely used	encrypted internet
28	internet sales tax	philosophy	nothing to fear
29	not going crazy	social order	elected spies 1
30	old and new	Court of Human Rights	elected spies 2
31		protest

	July	August	September
1	reign over	barber quiz	outstanding
2	pickiness quiz	in the way	the boss
3	problem with problems	Detroit Dollars	tall babies
4	Edward Snowden	Your Dollars	symbolism
5	volcanologist	paint and rules	bold yet subtle
6	economism	decoy steganograms	poetry
7	feeling and thinking	however hostile	grading 1
8	happy end	Erdos numbers	grading 2
9	tact	200% more	grading 3
10	Snowden and Bolivia	complexity is fraud	NSA owns you 1
11	everyone is wrong	the deadline	NSA owns you 2
12	compartmented NSA	economic forecasting	NSA Substitute Acronym
13	slugs	misreading	interior decoration
14	work of fiction	appearing to care	take me home
15	confused haiku	disaster species 1	technical difficulties
16	Newton’s priority	disaster species 2	copyright term 1
17	half a sky	mill around	copyright term 2
18	metaphor blindness	law of averages	occupation
19	my only life	flowing water	be alert
20	disorders	forward guidance	undercommunication
21	ego card	David Miranda	in space, no one
22	Trayvon Martin 1	Schedule 7	rise up!
23	Trayvon Martin 2	Opabinia Alliance 1	Russian successes
24	approaching problems	Opabinia Alliance 2	Death Squad Romeo
25	no choice	Opabinia Alliance 3	impartial observer
26	tuna emergency	Opabinia Alliance 4	parents
27	penguin is mightier	nothing to fear	secret courts
28	10,000,000 ants	damselfly	Liberty Bell
29	history goes on	science car	swan song
30	in harmony with nature	deliberation	where there’s smoke
31	unnatural	terrorism enterprise

	October	November	December
1	unrivaled	finishing	brute force
2	right thing quiz	NSA risk analysis	premium or discount
3	moral bankruptcy	host	cycle of hatred
4	government vacation	40% chance of rain	comfort zone
5	transgression	SETI	idiots
6	justified, necessary, proportionate	dating a zircon	you’re stupid
7	voter	inequities	the present
8	Tea Party	self-fulfilling prophecy	reef and shoal
9	public NSA	the end is near	applied fiction
10	rectify or justify	big data 1	larger brains
11	help terrorists 1	big data 2	everyone knows
12	help terrorists 2	economics is no science	may be true!
13	water problems	mean free path	Russia Today
14	complete works	100,000,000	dreaming different
15	de-extinction 1	American flag	announcements
16	de-extinction 2	exceptionalism	important questions 1
17	de-extinction 3	not a competition	important questions 2
18	time bomb	blind trajectory	unthinking
19	can’t reform itself	wrong quiz	open mind
20	all professionals	what everyone does	interrelated factors
21	protect your privacy	velvet worms	Federal Reserve
22	conflict of interest	status of mistakes	human error
23	emergency instructions	sin tax	ice age
24	clause and effect	sacrificial anode	rude NSA
25	critical acclaim quiz	take on the world	NSA
26	tolerance	no igloo	give back to the net
27	terrorists too	helpless	RSA’s denial
28	surveillance loop	tarantula hawk	yellows
29	NSA hullabaloo	appliance	Degeneration Gap
30	substantial misrepresentation	missile defense	Common Lisp
31	potential equivocation		for evil to triumph