• How To Handle Lawyers Threatening You | Hustle Bear - A Blog for Achievers - by Judd Weiss
• Complete ‘Mark Reads Harry Potter’ Archive | Mark Reads
• Abnormal Use: Views of 2011 From 1931
  wow: The population of the United States eighty years hence will be 160,000,000 and either stationary or declining, and will have a larger percentage of old people than there is today. Technological progress, with its exponential law of increase, holds the key to the future. Labor displacement will proceed even to automatic factories. The magic of remote control will be commonplace. Humanity’s most versatile servant will be the electron tube. Inevitable technological progress and abundant natural resources yield a higher standard of living. Poverty will be eliminated and hunger as a driving force of revolution will not be a danger. Inequality of income and problems of social justice will remain. Crises of life will be met by insurance. The role of government is bound to grow. Technicians and special interest groups will leave only a shell of democracy.
• Becker-Murphy rational addiction model, on xtranormal

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• Megan McArdle's Annual Kitchen Gift Guide
• The Hacker's Path

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• Does School Choice "Work"? > Publications > National Affairs
  the evidence is mixed
• The War on Cameras - Reason Magazine

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• Pin Dancing: The answer to "Will you mentor me?" is no
  instead of emailing famous people your random questions, show them some proof of concept and what you've tried already, they'll be much more willing to help out
• Students Know Good Teaching When They Get It, Survey Finds - NYTimes.com
  Classrooms where a majority of students said they agreed with the statement, “Our class stays busy and doesn’t waste time,” tended to be led by teachers with high value-added scores, the report said. The same was true for teachers whose students agreed with the statements, “In this class, we learn to correct our mistakes,” and, “My teacher has several good ways to explain each topic that we cover in this class.”

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• Stephen Neary | The Court of Protection

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• What does it feel like to be stupid?

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• How to Fly 35,000 Miles, Visit 4 Continents, 9 Countries, and 15 Cities for $418.
  load up on credit card miles, take advantage of specific programs
• Socratic Fishing in Lake Quora
  The problem here is that the core experience architecture of Quora is built around what is known as a stream: a real-time scrolling reverse chronological flow (pioneered in its “live” form by Facebook and Twitter, but dating back to BBSes). Highly personalized and customized no doubt, but still basically a ticker, zoomed in strongly on “now.” This creates a strong bias towards the bulletin-board end of the architecture (by emphasizing “now”). By contrast, wiki models are typically timeless. You get no time cues when you land on a Wikipedia page, usually. My colleagues at PARC have built a tool called WikiDashboard that allows wikis to bolt on a more explicit temporal dimension. Quora needs the reverse technology: something that mutes the excessive temporality (to be precise, excessively real-time temporal structure) and emphasizes longer time scales and timelessness.
• What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic
  (tags: floating point numbers math)
• The Terrorist Search Engine
  civilian who knows more about terrorist groups than anyone else, has become government expert witness in many terrorist cases
• The Assange "Rape": A Case Of Spurned Groupies « Citizen Renegade
  File this one under "politically incorrect but likely accurate" - women seeking attention, later spurned

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• The Economist chats with Anonymous, the group that launches DDOS attacks around the world
  "About ten people, called “OPs”, are able to launch an attack. If any OP abuses his power—if he fails to heed what anons call “the hive mind” in IRC conversations— the other OPs can lock him out of the chat. If any anon fails to be inspired by the target, she can remove her own computer from the volunteer botnet, reducing its effect. Anonymous is a 24-hour Athenian democracy, run by a quorum of whoever happens to be awake."
• Let's make the web faster - Google Code

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• Motorcycles are more dangerous than cars
  5.7 deaths per 10000 registered. Metafilter says motorcycles are 34 times as dangerous as cars. Largest # of deaths come from too high speed, alcohol
• The marginal vote costs about $145
  I wish they'd just offer me $100.
• MathJax | Beautiful math in all browsers

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• How Partisanship Works - Ross Douthat
• GameInternals - Understanding Pac-Man Ghost Behavior
• YouTube - BBC Panorama: FIFA'S DIRTY SECRETS - Part 1 of 2
  wow
• YouTube - CHRIS BURDEN: Metropolis II
  giant warehouse filled with hot wheels tracks. awesome
• the "sleep when your dead" tattoo
  learn how to spell when your dead, too, apparently

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