Evening roundup

• Tyler Cowen is a lanthanide


• NotPC updates the state of play on ClimateGate: Hadley apparently also destroyed raw data. I can understand old raw data being on a tape drive that would be hard to read now. I could understand the tapes having deteriorated over time. I can't understand destroying raw data. Cardinal rule is never destroy raw data. Sigh.


• High top marginal tax rates erode incentives to acquire human capital. More evidence for Don Brash's productivity commission.


• A handy tool for folks car shopping on TradeMe (where Kiwis go rather than EBay...coordination equilibrium...)