Dean Baker: The Simple Economics of Trade
"The worst part of the story is that the winners are too dumb or too dishonest to acknowledge that they won because they had the government on their side, so they go around gloating about having what it takes to succeed in the global economy."
Daring Fireball: Palm CEO Ed Colligan's Head Seems to be Stuck Somewhere
if:book: brewster kahle on the google book search "nightmare"
murketing » Bothe(red)? “It’s like if you took Bob Dylan’s ‘The Times They Are A-Changing,’ used it to pitch Rolex watches and tried to convince people that if they bought enough luxury goods they could make a revolution.”
U B U W E B :: Film & Video, a large collection of classic video art available online, very nice.
coroflot.com - Coroflot's 2006 Design Salary Survey
Streetsblog: Covering the New York City Streets Renaissance
The Psychological Consequences of Money -- Vohs et al. 314 (5802): 1154 -- Science
Money and Me, Me, Me -- Miller 2006 (1116): 3 -- ScienceNOW
Lunch over IP: EFC07 - Bjorn Lomborg on prioritizing the world's problems"why are we so willing to help people in 100 years and unwilling to help poor people today?"
MaxSpeak, You Listen!: DID UNCLE MILTIE EVER HELP THE LEFT?
The shady one-man corporation that's destroying hip-hop. - By Tim Wu - Slate Magazine
[BREAKING NEWS]: Student shot with Taser by UCPD officers Couple days late on this story, but man is it disgusting...
Loading an Airliner Is Rocket Science - New York Times
Raph’s Website » CopyBot Raph Koster on the copy crisis in Second Life.
"They will be copied. They will be ripped off. They will find their market prices falling. They will agitate for DRM. They will form lobbies with the analogue to a government, and argue that they are in fact the primary cultural contributors in the system. They will, in the end, come to embody everything about the broader, commercial Web that they fled to Second Life in order to escape.
"They will, in effect, be hoist by their own petard."
Jan Chipchase - Future Perfect: Data Transmission Mechanisms
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Knockoffs roil Second Life
Influx interview- jon steel- pitching new business
WTO Announces Formalized Slavery Model for Africa aka the Yes Men strike again.
Serving Up Energy Efficiency, Market-Style, On server farm energy use and innovation.
Guiding Principles for Sustainable Transportation (via A Sustainable Train of Thought)
A Struggle Over Dominance and Definition - New York Times on Google
DIY Kyoto | Wattson a way to visualize and view your home energy usage.
Google vs Yahoo! vs MSN Search: Comparing Search Algorithms
NPR : Ride a Bike, Ruin the Environment, a rather swiftian argument against bikes, but without all the humor. Breaks down as such: you ride a bike and therefore live longer and since you live longer you end up messing up the world more, yeah that really is the argument...
The New Yorker: HOLY ROLLERS: The city's bicycle zealots by BEN MCGRATH An ok article on bicycles in NY, would have been nice if the author actually got on a bike and road around though, no evidence he did...
Ballardian: The World of JG Ballard, because strangely enough my new home has a rather Ballardian lilt.
Vogue Cover Archive, and yeah I know this is my first post election day link... The election may have been a satisfying relief, but it was also pretty damn boring as a read...
XTech 2007: Call for participation now open — XTech
Orbicule | Undercover | How it works, it's like LoJack for your Macintosh. It's also sort of a scary piece of self surveillance.
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Flaming the dead
The Twentieth Annual SLSA Conference "EVOLUTION: BIOLOGICAL, CULTURAL, AND COSMIC"