Probably redundant for most of you, but considering the proto-discussion of a couple of months ago, about crime and drugs, Cory today posted a story that might be of interest. Turns out that the Netherlands isn’t producing enough criminals. Can you imagine this happening here? Obviously not. The US faces challenges that smaller, more homogeneous [...]
I am lame for reblogging, but these kottke items are too salient not to share. This one is a question I’ve been wondering about forever, but never thought to ask in a context where anybody might try to really answer it. This reminds me of something Eric Taipale said to me about fifteen years ago: [...]
The artist formerly known as DDB and I are engaged in an exercise to hold each other accountable for stuff. I made a list of goals, and projects (which I’ve defined as incremental sub-components of goals that you can finish in a day or two) and every day we mail each other about what we [...]
This is mighty/bizarre on so many different levels that I’m not sure my head will ever recover:
My favorite prof at USC, Irv Biederman, wrote a paper in which he coined the term “infovore.” An infovore is what you’d expect: an entity that lives by consuming information. I am a serious infovore. If we use basketball as a metaphor (and don’t we always) I’d say that in terms of infovore skillz I’m [...]
I love it when I find a resonance between stuff I’m thinking about and the larger world. This is probably like when you slam into a super-coincidence: you run into somebody you know from Italy on the F train in New York, for instance, and you think: holy shit, what are the odds? You don’t [...]
Score one for the “Culture of Life.” A 13-year-old Minnesota boy with cancer must resume medical treatment to save his life, despite religious and other objections by his family — unless it already is too late, a Brown County District Court judge ruled this morning. Daniel Hauser must have a chest x-ray by next Tuesday, [...]
They tell you to be ambitious, which is generally good advice, because it requires you to think about your life enough to want something in particular instead of wanting everything in general. Wanting everything in general is a contemptible state, which I define as a state that would be largely unchanged after massive but precisely [...]
This is super random and has nothing to do with anything. Cat blogging at its finest: I belonged to a gym in NH and when I found out I had to leave I went to the front desk to cancel my membership. They told me I had to fax my notice of cancellation to such [...]
For those of you who liked the last post, this is pure internet gold: Gladwell meets The Sports Guy! In _three_ parts! Good god, Peaches just exploded!