December 2010
“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.”
– Thoreau
Weathering Survivalist TV, Like ‘Man vs. Wild’ -... →
Now these same executives, or perhaps their offspring, apparently think we’ll soon be needing to know how to forage for edible roots and gut porcupines, presumably because the collapse of civilization is imminent. Sure, they could be wrong, but is that a chance you’re willing to take?
The worsening journalistic disgrace at Wired -... →
For more than six months, Wired’s Senior Editor Kevin Poulsen has possessed — but refuses to publish — the key evidence in one of the year’s most significant political stories: the arrest of U.S. Army PFC Bradley Manning for allegedly acting as WikiLeaks’ source. In late May, Adrian Lamo — at the same time he was working with the FBI as a government informant...
Marginal Revolution: Why do so many prices end in... →
these price points are sticky; neither the price-setter itself wants to change them neither the rivals do underbid these prices, if they represent the cheapest price on the market.
The American Scholar →
In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men’s thinking.
An Original Owner 1950s Rolex Submariner on eBay... →
Marginal Revolution: Where did game theory come... →
Von Neumann’s seminal game paper was part of a rich contemporaneous discussion of the mathematics of chess and parlour games in the first three decades of the century, involving diverse contributors, from Lasker to Zermelo to Konig, Kalmár, and Borel. It was a multifaceted literature, embracing Lasker’s philosophical probing of the place of struggle in business and war, Zermelo and the...
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Hacker News | Ask HN: Why is there so little... →
There are a lot of new startups that are concentrating on creating ‘fashionable’ companies, usually social networks of some kind, and yet the education sector is constantly being overlooked.
10 Most Retweeted Tweets of Twitter in 2010 ·... →
In honor of oil-soaked birds, ‘tweets’ are now ‘gurgles.’ http://bit.ly/cIhZNf
Why Japan Keeps Whaling | The Diplomat →
‘The Japanese have been eating whale meat and utilising whalebones, blubber and oil for more than 9000 years,’ says Glenn Inwood, a spokesperson for Japan’s Institute of Cetacean Research (ICR).
“I look at people from a positive angle, seeking positive aspects. This...”
– The Dalai Llama’s Advice On Building A Fan Base
