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New York Times has an op-ed piece about a look back at the projections for the unemployment rate and how the stimulus package should help the American economy. The interesting part is that reality now...
View ArticleRupert Murdoch Is Quitting Google, Leaving Readers With Only Millions Of...
If you've spent time online in the media world during the last weeks, you've probably heard about the plan of Rupert Murdoch to close all his newspapers to "leeches" as Google. The Newsweek blog has a...
View ArticleThe Cyberwar Plan
Via Bruce Schneier comes an very interesting article over at National Journal Magazine, The Cyberwar Plan - a description of how the US has planned and carried out several attacks attempting to limit...
View ArticleThe Making Of: Syndicate
Edge Magazine has an article about the making of one of the classic video games for both the Amiga and the PC, Syndicate. Cooper continues, with disarming candour. “We’d come in and play it...
View ArticleThe Real Thing?
From MITnews comes an article about the psychology of luxury items and how people behave in regards to such items. But when Gosline showed the same consumers pictures of the bags in use, their...
View ArticleFind the 15-Minute Competitive Advantage
Following the previous post from MITnews, we turn to a blog over at Harvard Business Publishing for an article about incremental innovation - building the next big thing in small 15 minute steps....
View ArticleWhen and How to Micromanage
Joel Spolsky's most recent article at Inc. gives a few examples of how and when micromanagement seems to be the best solution. The next morning, I met with Ryan and his staff. His company had never...
View ArticleWhy text messages are limited to 160 characters
While researching a completely unrelated topic, I came across this article from May in the Technology section of the L.A. Times: Why text messages are limited to 160 characters. It provides some...
View ArticleWhy Are Europeans White?
Today's article comes fresh from the claws of magnethy and is a Knol page exploring why people living in different locations of the world differ in their skin color. "White," of course, is a a social...
View ArticleMenu Mind Games
NYMag has an article about the design and use of typography to influence people's selection from the menu in a dining situation. In his new book, Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value (and How to Take...
View ArticleFor Sale: Diplomatic Recognition
SFGate, home of the San Francisco Chronicle, tells the tale of the little island republic of Nauru - who made their wealth by scraping up bird droppings up until 1990 - and then had to start trading...
View ArticleThe Odds of Airborne Terror
From the great guys over at FiveThirtyEight comes an illustrative article about the actual danger of a terrorist attack on commercial flights. These departures flew a collective 69,415,786,000 miles....
View ArticleThe Card Game: How Visa, Using Card Fees, Dominates a Market
There's an interesting article up on the New York Times about the current situation between merchants and the big credit card companies (such as VISA and Mastercard), providing a bit of inside...
View ArticleRedesigning the Boarding Pass
Tyler Thompson has a go at redesigning the current version of the boarding pass. There's a lot to be done here to make the boarding passes more friendly to the people actually reading them, and...
View ArticleTesting Video Games Can't Possibly Be Harder Than an Afternoon With Xbox, Right?
The life of the game tester might seem glamorous for the uninvited masses, but this article from the Seattly Weekly from back in 2007 tells the real tale about how things are on the inside. One table...
View ArticleYawn - It’s one of the best things you can do for your brain
While cleaning out a few old links that have been living in my browser for way too long now, one of the items that had survived so far was an article from the Penn Gazette about how yawning is a good...
View ArticleHigh Tech Cowboys of the Deep Seas: The Race to Save the Cougar Ace
A rediscovered classic over at Wired - how a crew of ship salvagers travels around the world and attempts to rescue ships lost at sea. This particular article tells the story about an operation aboard...
View ArticleComputing Thoughts: Wrong Correctness
Bruce Eckel has a very interesting post up on his blog about what he calls "Wrong Correctnes", a theme he sees in the latest book from Malcom Gladwell. It's well worth a read! Ironically, a model...
View ArticleArt of the Steal: On the Trail of World’s Most Ingenious Thief
Wired has yet another amazing feature article, this time about Gerald Daniel Blanchard, a young man traveling around the world and performing several large heists. The plane slowed and leveled out...
View ArticleI Penned The Suckiest Movie Ever - Sorry!
J.D. Shapiro, original screen writer of Battlefield Earth, the movie recently voted worst movie of the decade, shares the history behind how he got tangled in the mess in the first place. Let me start...
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