Differences
Marie Colvin’s final report: “We live in fear of a massacre.”
Joseph Stiglitz: “A banking system is supposed to serve society, not the other way around.”
The Australian mining industry’s big lie.
Eternal Copyright: a modest proposal.
How audio engineers tweak music for the iPod age.
The Difference [via Mefi]. Also: being God is a big responsibility.
“Brainstorming seems like an ideal technique, a feel-good way to boost productivity. But there is a problem with brainstorming. It doesn’t work.”
How do you become fluent in 11 languages?
“Everyone of European ancestry is descended from Muhammad and Charlemagne.”
A blog about creative uses of paper.
The Machete Order for watching the Star Wars saga. This is actually pretty convincing; I’m going to try it out on my experimental subject, er, son.
A scale Lego model of the Death Star would be 3.5km across, would cost US$10 trillion in bricks, would have to be built in low-earth orbit to support its weight, and at that height would eclipse the sun. And my son would still want one for his birthday.
26 February 2012