Jacob Christensen

There is a rule somewhere which says that things screw up when you least need it. So today the iMac decided to take a holiday without telling me in advance. First, the thing wouldn’t shut down, then it wouldn’t start again but stuck at the grey screen.

The easy solution didn’t work and neither did the slightly more complicated. Next step will be to have a go at the memory, before taking the thing to service.

The good news is that TimeMachine works nicely so I can access my data from the laptop but copying files still takes time.

• Örs, Palomino, Peyrache – Gender and performance under pressure: new evidence | vox – Research-based policy analysis and commentary from leading economists
  What causes the persistent gender gap among high-income earners? Using entrance exams from an elite French university, this column suggests that part of the explanation may lie in gender differences in performing under competitive pressure.
  (tags: economics sociology education gender)
• Berlingske Tidende – Udlændingeservice
  (tags: denmark immigration eu publicpolicy publicadministration)
• The Monkey Cage: Left-right ideology of voters, congressmembers, and senators
  Voters in Republican and Democratic states are slightly more conservative and liberal, respectively, on the issues. Elected representatives are more geographically polarized: winner-take-all elections generally magnify differences that are already there.
  (tags: usa elections politics politicalscience)

No, the journalists at Berlingske Tidende do not know their way around Moscow. At least not in Danish.

So, for your information and free of charge: The place is called Den røde Plads in Danish. And Krasnaya ploshchad (or something like that) in Russian.

Now I’m just waiting for somebody at Berlingske to write about Brandenburg Gate in Berlin or why not The Triumphal Arc in Paris.

And yes, the race in high heels is a silly stunt.

Just as I feared that he would get away with it, Radovan Karadži? is finally caught. Ratko Mladi? is next.

Karadži?’s professional background incidentally inspired this joke:

The good news is that Slobodan Miloševi? has finally visited a psychiatrist. The bad news is that Radovan Karadži? was the psychiatrist.

Update: Douglas Muir of a Fistful of Euros begins to suspect that Karadži? had been living in Belgrade all of the time while Olli Rein declares that the new Serbian government’s cooperation with the International War Crimes Tribunal is a good sign ahead of negotiations about Serbia’s relations with the EU. Oh, and EU’s foreign ministers meet on Tuesday to discuss that subject.