January 2008
18 posts
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What font says 'Change'? - The Boston Globe →
Rambo Inflation →
Number of people killed per minute in the Rambo series. Rambo: First Blood (1982): 0.01
Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985): 0.72
Rambo III (1988): 1.30
Rambo IV (2008): 2.59
Hat tip to Peter Gordon.
Results I do not believe →
…an analysis of strike outs (failing to hit the ball three times in a
row) in American baseball from 1913 to 2006 showed that players whose
first or last names began with K suffered significantly more strikeouts
than other players. Why? Because in baseball scoring, K is used to
denote a strikeout - “For players with this initial, the explicitly
negative performance outcome may feel...
“MySpace, with its cluttered layout, can suggest an online incarnation of the...”
– Annals of Crime: Friend Game: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
Hero Teen Throws Best Party Ever →
Watch this, seriously. Anchor: “I suggest you go away and take a good long hard look at yourself.” Corey: “I have. Everyone has. They love it.” — jstn
Markets in everything →
A prostitute is more likely to have sex with a police officer than to get officially arrested by one.
That’s from the new Levitt-Venkatesh paper, hat tips to Matt Yglesias and Kerry Howley, both of whom add interesting commentary.
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Flight Of The Conchords At CES →
This is so awesome that I really am speechless.
I found this song on the hype machine, then clicked over to Stereogum where I found the video.
Flight Of The Conchords - Business Time
“China is instituting biometric ID cards, beginning with the city of Shenzhen....”
– Identity document - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Markets in everything?, self-constraint edition →
An alarm clock to get you out of bed in the morning:
Connects via WiFi to your online bank account, and donates YOUR real money to an organization you HATE when you decide to snooze!
Hat tips to Kottke and Magnetbox, apparently there is doubt as to whether this is real. The wise guy also may wonder why you just don’t disable the snooze function on your alarm clock. But of course that is...
What My Kids Tell Me About The Future of Media →
I was reading a Goldman Sachs research report on the radio business on the plane back from Australia. I came across this chart of EBITDA multiples versus EBITA growth rates for various media categories.
There’s not a ton of insight in that chart, but it got me thinking if I could learn anything about the various media categories from watching my teenage children. Here’s what...
“It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to...”
– T.S. Eliot on television
Wikipedia: A community of editors or a community... →
By Tim O’Reilly
Having a bit more time than usual over the holidays, I caught up on various types of reading, including following old links. One of the pieces I came across that I can’t believe I missed when it was first published back in 2006 is Aaron Swartz’s Who Writes Wikipedia?
This piece is a must-read for anyone who cares about the future of publishing. Aaron argues...