From Barry Schwartz at TED2009: Barry Schwartz at TED2009 Barry Schwartz makes a passionate call for “practical wisdom” as an antidote to a society gone mad with bureaucracy. He argues powerfully that rules often fail us, incentives often backfire, and practical, everyday wisdom will help rebuild our world. 20min 45sec…
From Xeni at BoingBoing:
Heard on Robbie, Marieke and The Doctor on TripleJ this morning:
Wow… I blogged this from my phone… 🙂
Via Donncha O Caoimh of Holy Shmoly!:
Except for the bit about punching small animals… 🙂
From Mark on BoingBoing: The Capital Markets Subcommittee Chair, Rep. Paul Kanjorski of Pennsylvania, tells C-Span how the world economy almost collapsed in a matter of hours. … “It would have been the end of our economic system and our political system as we know it.” Oh well… maybe next…
Viatel was my introduction to networked computing in Australia in the late 1980s. The trusty old Commodore 64 sucked down those pages line at a time through the 300/75 baud modem. Yes, that’s 300 bps down and 75bps up… Then came BBSes and FidoNet and the blazingly fast 1200 baud…
From Tibet Custom: A shoe was thrown at Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao in Cambridge last week, the protester threw his shoe in outrage shouting “We should not prostrate ourselves to this dictator”.
From Oak Ridge Associated Universities: Why, or by whom, these depleted uranium (DU) dice were made is a complete mystery. If I had to guess, I would say that they were produced as a type of memento by the Atomic Energy Commission, possible as paperweights. Nineteen fifties most likely. They…