Sat 16 January 2010 | tags: creditcard, dailylinks, design, economics, jj, rails, rest, -- (permalink)

What I've been reading lately:

• Plastic Flashback | The Big Money - Most economic models depend on the assumption that consumers are well-informed, rational, and self-interested. The 23914077th example of this assumption failing comes from The Big Money's pictorial history of the credit card: “People are picking out a card because they …

Fri 15 January 2010 | tags: amazon, appengine, budgets, dailylinks, haiti, immigration, marginalrevolution, politics, s3, upload, utah, -- (permalink)

What I've been reading lately:

• Marginal Revolution: How to help Haiti
  • The very best option right now for a lot of the Haitian earthquake survivors is to go somewhere else. Tyler Cowen cites a variety of bloggers arguing that the most effective way to do this would be for the …

Thu 14 January 2010 | tags: buttonwood, dailylinks, economics, gimp, kneehugging, protectionism, ubuntu, -- (permalink)

What I've been reading lately:

• How To Install GIMP With Single Window Mode In Ubuntu
  • Finally.
• More protectionism idiocy | The Economist
  • Sometimes it's refreshing to go back to basics for a minute.
• Title Censored
  • Why do "respectable" stories and ads that talk about lady parts always show pictures of women …

Wed 13 January 2010 | tags: academia, china, customers, dailylinks, earthquake, freespeech, google, gretchenrubin, hacking, haiti, happiness, journals, lists, publishing, science, secondlife, users, -- (permalink)

What I've been reading lately:

• Fourteen Tips for Getting More Sleep -- and Why It Matters.
  • Gretchen Rubin's Happiness Project blog has some great insights about how to live a happier life, but personally I could do without lists like this. They just remind me of all the things I don't …

Tue 12 January 2010 | tags: autocomplete, bolognese, boyfriend, dailylinks, girlfriend, google, harryreid, johnmcwhorter, mysql, obama, recipe, secondlife, -- (permalink)

What I've been reading lately:

• Reid's Three Little Words: The Log In Our Own Eye | The New Republic
  • The best-reasoned reaction I've seen yet to Harry Reid's "negro dialect" comment. But I still can't help feeling that if Reid were a Republican, most of his present apologists would be silent …