The economic distortions of legally mandated parking minimums are really interesting. This is a good layman’s introduction to the effects, which are huge, but largely escape notice until you start fnording for them.
Dave Itzkoff gets Hans Zimmer to comment at length on the derivation of Inception’s signature musical cue, which turns out to be a clever re-use of the Edith Piaf song used repeatedly throughout the movie as a signal that things are about to get complicated and/or blow up. This is the first time I can recall seen a big-time news story prompted by a YouTube video, at least one which wasn’t covering a fad.
Long Atlantic story from last month about Google’s journalistic enterprises. Worth reading if you didn’t see it the first time around.
Beloved childood dinosaur revealed as mere juvenile torosauruses. Or is that torosaurs? I don’t know, I’ve never heard of them before today.
Harold McGee on the odd circumstances in which adding water causes flavors or aromas to increase instead of dilute. Now I need a refractometer.
This is Anandtech’s superb visualization of how the iPhone maps cellular signal strength onto its bar meter, both before and after the change in iOS 4.0.1. Their coverage of the iPhone 4 antenna story has been meticulous, quantitative, and detail-oriented, unlike virtually everyone else’s.
via anandtech.com
First in a series.
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wondering
if you are going to camp
where i fall and wait
for brides
and he wearing reputational job
together.
Anyway bye.
By Google Voice, with an assist from my mom.
It’s hard to imagine the NYT knew what a coup it was getting when it signed up Erroll Morris to write about, apparently, whatever he wants. Here’s the auspicious beginning of a five-part series about people who lack the information or ability to recognize the limits of what they don’t know, starting with the Dunning-Kruger effect, and rehabilitating that thing Donald Rumsfeld said that one time, which I always thought was uncharacteristically clever.
Damn, neglected to blog this fabulous NYT infographic, depicting the debt relationships of Greece, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, and Italy. It’s the sexiest pentagram I’ve ever seen.
Cleaning up unheard Planet Money episodes, I found this follow-up to Chana Joffe-Walt’s blockbuster This American Life segment, in which she went for a ridealong with an FDIC bank closure team. She interviews a couple of the principal players one year later.
Plucked at random from a list of “TED talks sorted by PageRank engagement”, her take on the statistics of HIV prevention is great on its own terms, and as an example of statistical presentation for a mass audience. Pisani runs a blog along the same lines, Wisdom of Whores.
This has been my desktop pattern for about a year. I adore it. The worst transitional problem to the fabulous new higher-resolution laptop is that this image no longer fills the screen without pixelation. Quel dommage.
via www.amusement.fr
