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Wednesday linkfest

May 14th, 2008

Wednesday linkfest

May 6th, 2008

Wednesday linkfest

April 16th, 2008

Here’s this week’s linkfest:

Wednesday linkfest

April 9th, 2008

Wednesday linkfest

April 2nd, 2008

Thursday linkfest

February 28th, 2008

  • Interview with George Carlin. One can learn a great deal from this man about public speaking. He has a new HBO special.
  • Sidewalk Innovation. It’s funny: we can make supersonic jets and go to the moon, but making sidewalks that don’t crack from the growth of trees is just too much for us. Well not anymore. the answer? Rubber (video).
  • Record number ratio of Americans in prison. Not sure how anyone can seriously argue there aren’t serious problems in America. Either we have too punitive a culture (e.g. drug possession ‘crimes’), our culture produces more criminals than other cultures, or we are miserable failures at designing prisons to minimize repeat offenses. (Check out the documentary Prisontown for one powerful slice of the American prison system).
  • Are CD’s the next 8-track tapes? Article claims almost half of all teenagers in the U.S. bought zero CDs in 2007. The death of the mix-tape was sad enough, but I doubt mix-flash drives and playlists will ever be Valentines day staples like mix-tapes used to be.

Thursday linkfest

February 7th, 2008

Wednesday linkfest

January 30th, 2008

Thursday linkfest

January 17th, 2008

Linkfest for Thursday:

  • This week in science podcast. If you want your science news infused with a sense of humor, this is for you.
  • Surprise - drug research biased. Apparently the efficacy of anti-depressant drugs has been overstated by the companies that make them.
  • Cool Tools. Kevin Kelly, a founder of Wired magazine, runs this website of smart tools and gadgets, mostly non-hi-tech, for people who like to work smart. There’s an e-mail newsletter too (Hat tip to Lynn).
  • Moleskinerie. One of my favorite cool tools are my moleskine notebooks, and this blog is about the many different ways people use ‘em.

Thursday linkfest

January 10th, 2008

Here’s the good stuff I’ve found this week:

Thursday linkfest

January 3rd, 2008

Thursday linkfest

December 27th, 2007

  • Updated list of online games with good UX design. The folks at goodexperience update this list of games with the primary critieria being fun, easy to learn gameplay.
  • How it all ends. A very smart, funny, well produced but low-tech, youtube video about understanding global warming. Interesting primarily for it’s well done wacky / teacher / presenter learning style. This took significantly more time to make than to watch. It’s just flat out good, intelligent communication of an opinion.
  • Apophenia. Whenever you meet someone with misplaced faith in some crazy stock market investment strategy, instead of just calling bullshit, you can now tell them they suffer from apophenia.
  • Lakota indians threaten to secede from the U.S.. Hard to tell how far this will go as the logistics here are complex no matter what the laws are, but it’s an interesting story so far.

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