Bloggin' is hard. So here are some links.

Man.  The sheer act of REMEMBERING to blog every day is hard.  I rarely get as far as figuring out if I have anything interesting to say.  So I'll do what every self-respecting blogger does and just link to somebody else!

Links of the day:

• Henry Abbott at Truehoop says:

NBA.com has some new statistics in their box score. There's +/-, which is cool. And then there is "BA." Bad attitude? Big altitude? Consulting with reigning TrueHoop Stat Geek Smackdown champion Justin Kubatko of Basketball-Reference.com reveals that is stands for "blocks against." I think they should change the name of the category to "facials." That's what that column is all about, right? Humilation! Jarrett Jack, by the way, leads the league with three BA's per game. "I'm not sure why a block is much worse than any other type of miss," Kubatko adds. "What they should really track is assisted field goals, as in: 'Kobe Bryant made twelve field goals, and four were assisted.'" That would be cool.

• More Right Brain/Schmight Brain madness.
• Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution on the Economics of Halloween.  Today at MSFT, it's "bring your kids to trick or treat at work day", so there's candy everywhere on chairs outside offices.  I saw a dentist running down the aisle screaming "NONONONONO!!!" with his hands over his ears.
• The Halloween theme led the Freakonomics guys to blog about pirates, which led me to one of the cooler Google Earth mashups I've seen.
• I installed Leopard yesterday and got a blue screen of death.  My employers must feel just a tiny bit giddy.