December 2007
35 posts
“Perhaps this next century will give Schumpeter’s work its proper place as...”
– Creative Destruction’s Reconstruction: Joseph Schumpeter Revisited - ChronicleReview.com (Brad DeLong)
best new sign of overpopulation
Last night I went into a McDonald’s to set up some cameras for Mod My Life and there was a bouncer at the entrance to the second floor dining area. Only those with food were allowed through. It was a mad house.
Where should you give your money to charity? →
This site offers many interesting tips. Here are their recommendations for how to save lives. Their first pick, Population Services International, distributes condoms and insecticide-soaked bednets. Here is a New York Times article about their operation. The pointer is from Michael Vassar, a regular MR commentator.
it’s the waiting game that kills you
this would be killer: color e-ink →
Reputation: where the personal and the... →
Great discussion of a great conference I went to last week—Reputation Economies in Cyberspace at Yale Law. Been doing a lot of thinking about reputation and trust building online, and it has been fundamentally altering how I think about my thesis, among other things.
http://killerstartups.com/Web20/ModMyLifecom—-Have-Fun-Humiliating-Others/
mas 960 SIGNALS, TRUTH & DESIGN fall 2007 (MIT) →
Judith Donath has done some great research. Wish I could have taken her class this semester.
Misunderstanding Copyright Law And Ruining... →
So the video that everyone has been talking about is history (mostly - good old Daily Motion tends to ignore the take down notices, so I was able to embed it above). It is the victim of a bullying tactic by a photographer and her lawyer. Once again, a perversion of copyright is being used to destroy art.
The video, set to the tune of We Didn’t Start the Fire by Billy Joel, mocked just about...
“Already, many families forgo watching tv dramas to quest together in WoW.” -Bainbridge in Science
Control Someone’s Behavior for an Hour with Mod My... →
This has to be the most amusing website I’ve come across for quite sometime. Mod My Life is a twist on the lifecasting idea pioneered by JustinTV. Whereas with JustinTV you can eavesdrop into the lives of dozens of people, and chat with them if you like as well, Mod My Life lets you to watch people’s lives for hour-long segments at a time and command them to do things.
The word “lives” should...
Goodmagazine - Coin Flipping Isn’t Fair →
Two-Birds-With-One-Stone Resistance →
Source: The New York Times Magazine | Author: Marina Krakovsky | Date: 10 Dec 2007
Psychology researchers at the University of Chicago have discovered that people subconsciously avoid activities that serve more than one function. According to researchers, connecting one method “to multiple goals weakens the mental association between that means and any one goal.” In their study,...
bagel bits
Isn’t it awesome when you ate a bagel a few hours ago, but a little piece of say sesame stays stuck in your teeth and falls out when you least expect it, filling your mouth with the taste of the bagel again? For some reason that makes me really nostalgic.
“she turned into an F5 and blew up Oklahoma”
– mark k.
Daft Punk and Three 6 Mafia - Aerodynamic... →
at home
at home getting ready to fly to the west coast. a bit nervous, but overall excited for my first ‘business’ trip.
