by Associated Press Photo / Tony Gutierrez

David Hanson, right, holds his son Zeno on his lap as the two look at Hansons&#8217- Robot creation, also named, Zeno, at his office in Richardson, Texas, Thursday, Sept. 6, 2007.

Previous blog posts by Chris F. Masse:

• Robin Hanson wants to rule the world —just as CEOs and heads of states do for a living.
• Predictify got funded… Great for those who will be hired… But is it a good thing, overall?
• Nassim Nicholas Taleb likens modern-day financial markets to medicine in the 1800s, when going to a hospital in London or Paris multiplied your risk of death by four times, he says. Similarly, quants increase risk by deploying flawed financial tools designed to reduce it, he argues.
• TradeSports-InTrade — Check Deposits
• BetFair Australia fought for free trade across Australian state boundaries… and won.

&#8220-Infidels Are Cool&#8221- is the name of a blog on US politics.

• Smart blog title-
• Cute header picture-
• The meaning of the blog title goes hand in hand with what the header picture conveys.

The Midas Oracle site as seen by this IT tool (&#8221-Websites as Graphs&#8221-).

The Truth of the Source Code – by George Tziralis of Ask Markets

Previous blog posts by Chris F. Masse:

• Is that HubDub’s Nigel Eccles on the bottom left of that UK WebMission pic?
• Collective Error = Average Individual Error – Prediction Diversity
• When gambling meets Wall Street — Proposal for a brand-new kind of finance-based lottery
• The definitive proof that it’s presently impossible to practice prediction market journalism with BetFair.
• The Absence of Teams In Production of Blog Journalism
• Publish a comment on the BetFair forum, get arrested.
• If I had to guess, I would say about 50 percent of the “name pros” you see on television on a regular basis have a negative net worth. Frightening, I know.

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Previous blog posts by Chris F. Masse:

• 50% of our prediction market luminaries have a MacBook.
• STRAIGHT FROM OUR TRUISM DEPARTMENT: Money buys happiness.
• Ron Paul (R) and Barney Frank (D) ally together to attack “the practical hurdles of the federal law, known as the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, rather than its legitimacy”.
• Clicking on the “SPHERE: RELATED CONTENT” button, at the bottom of each Midas Oracle post, will bring you a list of external webspots.
• FRIGHTENING: Jed Christiansen’s prediction market blog was briefly overtaken by web spammers, who inserted invisible links to their commercial sites so as to game the Google PageRank system.
• InTrade ditch market-leader Bloomberg for low-cost, second-tier data provider eSignal.
• Drawing a parallel between our reluctance to seek advice and the experts’ reluctance to take the market-generated probabilistic predictions in an un-discriminating, un-critical fashion