[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
- Skateboarder Foils Would-Be Koran Burner In Texas (VIDEO) | TPMMuckraker
- "I snuck up behind him and took his Koran, he said something about burning the Koran, I said 'Dude you have no Koran,' and ran off."
- Stylish Plugin Sampler: 15 Design-Friendly Plugins For Your WordPress Site
- [Pressography - Sarah Gooding]
- Video mayhem enlivens decision-making
- [Science News]
Action gamers acquire advantage in evaluating sensory information.
[I wonder how that's affected by videogame physics? -L]
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- Winner take-all economics
- [Marginal Revolution - Alex Tabarrok]
Ezra Klein writes:
"The top 1 percent, for instance, has gone from capturing about 8 percent of the national income to 18 percent. But there's no obvious skills differential between workers in the top 1 percent and the workers directly beneath them. It's not like hedge fund managers are the only guys able to use Excel."
In a winner-take all economy, however, small differences in skills can mean large differences in returns and we have moved towards a winner take-all economy because technology has increased the size of the market that can be served by a single person or firm. [links]
[Blaming technology alone, of course, requires the rosy assumption that we had a perfect meritocracy to begin with. We might as well consider the possibility that small differences in privilege can mean large differences in returns. -L]
- Thank Goodness for the Mini Fainting Couch
- [Daily Squee]
…this puppy fainted from his own unbearable cuteness of being!
- Download Free E-book “Windows 7 Guide: From Newbies to Pro’s”
- [Blogging, WordPress, Joomla, Graphics - Egidijus Baranauskas]
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