Peek At Philly Store Hints of Storefront Design
Can’t be too soon. Via Daring Fireball.
Republicans: a party of unemployment
From now until 2 November, the Republican party will be the party of unemployment. The logic is straightforward: the more people who are unemployed on election day, the better the prospects for Republicans in the fall election. They expect, with good cause, that voters will hold the Democrats responsible for the state of the economy. Therefore, anything that the Republicans can do to make the economy worse between now and then will help their election prospects.
While it may be bad taste to accuse a major national political party of deliberately wanting to throw people out of jobs, there is no other plausible explanation for the Republicans’ behaviour.
The federal government takedown of pirate Internet domain names succeeded… for a few hours. This site has an interesting review of the jurisdictional and legal issues raised by the case—and essentially concludes that government action is a complete waste of time.
The massively excellent Quackwatch podcast is being sued by one of the quacks he has criticized. Next step: disseminate the posts over which he is being sued as widely as possible.
What you should spend your next $2 on: Onion News releases 12-minute “movie” on iTunes, “Future: News From the Year 2137”.
Dan Dennett: A secular, scientific rebuttal to Rick Warren
Zeppelins: they’re not just for Nazis and Indiana Jones anymore. Turns out, it’s a wicked cool technology, and it’s making a comeback.
My recent Macworld articles
A graphic designed to make you shit your pants:
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This is what you see when your domain name is seized by the Feds.
Lessons in passive-aggressive behavior
This just happened.
[SCENE: outside at Starbucks. All tables taken by one person, plenty of seats.]
Me: Do you mind if I sit here?
Man in TD shirt: [waves at chair]
Me:: Do you mind if I smoke?
TD: No, that I can’t take. [starts to get up]
Me: No! Don’t get up, I’ll just sit somewhere else.
[TD man carries his chair to where four empty chairs are already located, and sits next to the only other guy smoking.]
I just don’t get it.
The sting of poverty | Boston Globe
Compared with the middle class or the wealthy, the poor are disproportionately likely to drop out of school, to have children while in their teens, to abuse drugs, to commit crimes, to not save when extra money comes their way, to not work. To an economist, this is irrational behavior.
Traditional economics just doesn’t apply to the poor. When we’re poor, Karelis argues, our economic worldview is shaped by deprivation, and we see the world around us not in terms of goods to be consumed but as problems to be alleviated.
Contractors’ roles in psychological operations raise concerns | Washington Post
The Defense Department plans to spend nearly $1 billion on psychological operations (PSYOP) worldwide in fiscal 2011 — and nearly 40 percent of it will go for contracted services and products.
Eyewitness ID: Landmark report urges overhaul
Eyewitness accounts and memory have been shown to be among the least trustworthy methods of recounting reality in psychology, but they’re considered rock solid in law. I’m curious to see if this gets any traction.
Jeff’s Grooming Tips for Men #37: if the quality of your shave suddenly drops precipitously, rotate the razor so that the blade side is facing your beard.
RSA Animate: The surprising truth about what motivates us
