January 2012
60 posts
December 2011
70 posts
“The great irony and tragedy of “intro econ” is that it is at its introductory...”
– The Trouble with Principles: Or, How to Not Lose Friends and Alienate People When Learning Economics (#OccupyWallStreet, #OWS)
Perhaps the most interesting bit,
To casually label economics a science is at best aspirational, at worst manipulative, at a minimum misleading. At the introductory...
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The Good Part
Before I write this, I feel like I have to explain that I’m agnostic. That is, I don’t claim to know anything about the existence of god. More specifically, I don’t care about the existence of god. I don’t go to church, and it doesn’t matter to me if you do or don’t.
This – of course – doesn’t exclude me from wanting to make the world a better place. It...
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“The horses trudged sullenly the alien ground and the round earth rolled beneath...”
– Blood Meridian
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“Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the...”
– Blood Meridian
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The Best Albums of 2010
2010 was a tremendous year for music. A lot of stuff came out that felt entirely fresh and took me completely by surprise, while a few of my favorites came out with albums that failed to hold me for long (Beach House and Caribou in particular). Many great albums came out in 2010, but the five listed here left the deepest imprint on me. They’re not listed in order.
Black Noise – Pantha Du...
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“Pyongyang media say Kim enjoys golf, having shot multiple holes-in-one during...”
– WorldTribune.com Move over Tiger: N. Korea’s Kim shot 38 under par his 1st time out
This is a bad year for dictators.
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“Facebook has threatened to sue Mark Zuckerberg, an Israeli entrepreneur who...”
– Mashable
Every party in this case is ridiculous.
However, it’s really interesting to see Facebook butt up against government regulations as they outgrow a state-based context. In the future, legally changing your name or other bureaucratic filings might be immaterial within a global,...
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“The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is...”
– Christopher Hitchens, (1949-2011)
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Hitch is in heaven now!
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“And now we get to prematurely place behind us another quite troubling incident...”
– Choire Sicha, The “War” Is “Over” (via peterfeld)
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Do people really want participatory government?
mchronister:
I’m happy to say that my proposal for SXSW Interactive has been accepted. I’m excited to lead this core conversation with Jed Sundwall from Measured Voice.
Come talk to Michelle and me at SXSW!
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"Liberating Workers" →
dbreunig:
Christina Cacioppo on why Cherry, an iPhone app that lets you order an an immediate car wash, is compelling:
Like Opez, Cherry enables car washers to become freelancers. They don’t need to work for a car-washing shop and so can retain more of the profits generated by their work.
Historically, one service provided by a car-washing shop has been finding, staying in touch with,...
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“Regardless of how bad the sculpture is, or how it serves as a distraction to the...”
– Paul Jamason from SD Urban on how the public discussion around the proposed Wings of Freedom sculpture reveals the sorry state of public discourse in San Diego.
I second the call to support Voice of San Diego, and for the record, I have no problem with the wings.
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“To those who might wish to “torrent” this video: look, I don’t really get the...”
– Support this man. (via radioon)
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“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the...”
– Howard Zinn, from A Power Governments Cannot Suppress
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What's Actually Simple
measuredvoice:
John Gruber, on Nick Bilton’s analysis of Twitter’s new UI:
Simplification may well be the publicly-stated goal of today’s new Twitter UI. But I don’t buy a word of Bilton’s analysis. The new Twitter UI doesn’t hide @username mentions or #hashtags. They’re all still there. Two of the big icons on the four tabs at the bottom of the screen are “@” and “#”. I totally agree that the...
Give to Code for America
kevincurry:
I’ve been an advisor for a great civic fellowship program called Code for America for the past year. CfA matches talented developers, designers, community managers, and project leads with municipal governments that struggle to keep up with the Internet. It’s like Teach for America for geeks. In this season of giving I’d appreciate it if you would make a tax-deductible contribution...
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