Mozilla’s new offices have conference rooms named after memes! Had to take a shot of All Your Base room.
Simply awesome. We should start naming buildings and airports in this way.
Yet another reason to love the Great White Duke
With all of the economic shenanigans of the past couple of years, people are suddenly interested in economists, of all things. Men (it’s mostly men) who have spent most of their lives hanging out in academia and ignoring their chronic dandruff have been thrust into the public spotlight with all of the trappings of rock-stardom.
If the analogy with rockstars seems like a bit of a stretch, think about this: Dr.Doom is not the stage name of a death metal guitarist, it’s actually the name given to Nouriel Roubini, Professor of economics at NYU Stern.
The similarities don’t end with the cool nicknames. While the East Coast / West Coast rap battle was fairly short-lived, the Keynesian / Neoclassical rap battle has been raging for decades, with no end in sight.
If that all sounds very esoteric (and a bit of a yawn), I should point out that this shit has a material impact on your life, even if you choose to ignore it. So, if you’re ready to get on the economics bandwagon and actually try to understand this stuff, then follow this link to the Economist’s handy-dandy primer on whether Biggie or Tupac had it right on that whole “liquidity trap” thing (WARNING: this may make your head hurt more than a death metal concert, but if it does not kill you, it will make you stronger)
Gangs in New York talk Twitter: Use tweets to trash-talk rivals, plan fights
The unintentional humor in this article is through the roof. Some of my favorite quotes:
“The city’s street gangs are becoming tweet gangs.”
“It’s old-school crime meets new technology: attacks being plotted - and thwarted - 140 characters at a time.”
“One investigator recently warned parents and teens that the bastion of OMG and LOL has been infiltrated by violent crews waging turf wars.”
“Gang members who grew up in the digital age are blasé about their tweeting.”unintentional humor? come on, it’s the DAILY NEWS, where journalism is parody.
Found this fascinating. Looks like Live music is overtaking recorded music for revenues. At the same time, artists are taking home more of the dough, at the expense of the old music publishers…. I think all content is heading this way. Even TV!
OK, this chart is interesting for many reasons. The thing that I find interesting is that it seems to show three very distinct generations. The two “middle” age groups in here are very similar, but the “over 65”, mostly pre-boomers, are dead against gay marriage and the “under 30” Gen Y are mostly for it. It’s nice to see demographic data come out this clean, it usually does’nt.
Support for Same-Sex Marriage by Age and State » Sociological Images
All I learned from this is that there is no point trying to change old people.
That & the fact that people over the age of 45 are seemingly much more likely to vote than the 18-29 crowd are. At least that’s what happened in states like California & Maine, the 7th and 8th states on the list.
This is a lesson in the inevitability of change. In other words: don’t worry about it too much. The laws will change soon enough, at least in the grand scheme of things. There are important and less inevitable issues for us to deal with.
Until citizens of developed nations accept that there will be a material cost to action on climate change, then this impasse will remain just that, an impasse.
