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The Sulzbacher Eszett

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:01:46 -0500

A Smarter (and Cost-Efficient) Way to Fight Crime

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:01:45 -0500

A Smarter (and Cost-Efficient) Way to Fight Crime:

“When crime rates are high, spreading existing law enforcement resources equally among all potential offenders guarantees that any specific offense is unlikely to be punished. That leads to a vicious cycle of further increases in crime and further strains on law enforcement. Mr. Kleiman’s proposal to publicly announce a strategic priority enforcement list would create positive feedback loops that would break this cycle. It is an ingenious idea that borrows from game theory and the economics of signaling behavior.”

dannygarcia: Little big Toronto (via [daily dose of imagery])

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:01:45 -0500

dannygarcia:

Little big Toronto (via [daily dose of imagery])

Speech Training: Learning to Deliver English Speech, Obama Style

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:01:45 -0500

Speech Training: Learning to Deliver English Speech, Obama Style:

imagine when all Japanese tourists and immigrants start to sound like Obama.

amyvdh: nevver: Christian Montenegro | design work life I...

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:15:46 -0500

amyvdh:

nevver:

Christian Montenegro | design work life

I don’t know what this is but it’s beautiful

"We are Russian citizens and it is not our place to know the truth."

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:01:45 -0500

“We are Russian citizens and it is not our place to know the truth.”

- Vexed voyage

China, as seen by Elizabeth Dalziel - The Big Picture -...

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:01:46 -0500

China, as seen by Elizabeth Dalziel - The Big Picture - Boston.com

"Misery doesn’t love just any kind of company, it loves only miserable company."

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:03:45 -0500

“Misery doesn’t love just any kind of company, it loves only miserable company.”

- Stanley Schachter (via)

Vintage Fashion by Lee Sutton

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:02:45 -0500

Vintage Fashion by Lee Sutton

nevver: Gotham

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:47:44 -0500

nevver:

Gotham

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Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:02:00 -0400

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Photo

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 09:02:44 -0400

How marketing has got under our skin

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:02:44 -0400

How marketing has got under our skin:

While recruiting for my company in the early 1990s, I met lots of business-school boys and girls. The first few struck me as completely amazing—their confidence, their projection. The things they said on their CVs about being “natural leaders”, how they were high achievers and team players, their range of smart internships worn like a row of medals, their international experience, impressive travel histories and achievements in smart hyperactive sports. And that was only the girls. It was terribly imp ressive and exciting, if a bit exhausting. But by the fifth interview I could see that they were all doing a branding job, building up a character from ready-mades, the kind they gave them at Robot School. I started to tune in to the vocabulary, and the body language (“never sprawl back in your chair—it looks disengaged—sit well forward and always make eye contact”) and longed for a candidate to tell me they collected 17th-century Iznik pottery, or better still, watched a lot of television. The same thing has happened to our elected representatives: audiences instantly recognise politicians who’ve been “done”—trained to high heaven—because their bouncy responses to questioning—never saying “yes” or “no”—are so different from how any other human would answer in the same situation, and yet so eerily alike.

jinon: drifting blog by snotch - at Varanasi (Benares), India...

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:08:45 -0400

jinon:

drifting blog by snotch - at Varanasi (Benares), India on 18/Nov/1999

suicideblonde: waxandmilk: Lynyrd Skynyrd photo by Richard E....

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:05:00 -0400

suicideblonde:

waxandmilk:

Lynyrd Skynyrd
photo by Richard E. Aaron

Nothing to see here, just a monkey with roller skates on drinking some Jack with Lynyrd Skynrd.

Photo

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:02:44 -0400

"the bleakness meter in American life has always been set on high."

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:01:44 -0400

“the bleakness meter in American life has always been set on high.”

- Mad Men and the Thrill of Other People’s Misery in Sour Times

Photo

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:04:45 -0400

The Most Important Number on Earth | Mother Jones

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:09:00 -0400

The Most Important Number on Earth | Mother Jones:

at ExxonMobil’s annual meeting last spring, CEO Rex Tillerson said he envisioned a world that still used fossil fuel for two-thirds of its power in 2030. A world where change came slowly enough that everyone could make every last penny off their sunk investments in coal mines and oil platforms. And a world where politicians didn’t need to raise the price of carbon steeply, and hence didn’t need to arouse voters.

Where I Slept

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 11:46:00 -0400

Where I Slept