Lifehacker: 10 Ways to Access Blocked Stuff on the Web
Happiness: No Purchase Necessary, Says Study
Happiness: No Purchase Necessary, Says Study
From Treehugger.com: “According to the latest research, the key to finding happiness is … . in having new experiences … . . The study, which was conducted by psychologists at Cornell University, found that ‘experiences’ are more rewarding than ‘things’ because of the way people tend to evaluate their happiness by comparing themselves with others. For example, it is easier to feel crummy about some possession of yours if you learn that someone else has a superior version of it. Experiences are inherently less comparative.”
A sunny day in LA: City Hall reflected in the face of the new police headquarters.
© 2010 j.r.mchale
Core Memory: Photographs of Vintage Computers
Core Memory: Photographs of Vintage Computers
At Time Magazine, a slideshow of early computers and related punch cards, tubes, etc.
Spin’s fifteen best record stores in America. No. 1 = Amoeba Records, Hollywood.
Photo by colonelchi from flickr: CC (Creative Commons) BY-NC-ND 2.0
At a minimum, incoming Congresspeople need to go to school, a finance and economics ‘boot camp’ for starters. Classes on micro and macroeconomics. International trade. Financial markets. Corporate finance. Basic yet important stuff.
Roger Ehrenberg writing at his website Information Arbitrage on how those currently serving in Congress lack the basic skills to propose the sensible financial reforms that are clearly needed in the wake of the most recent financial crisis.
http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9/63890987001?isVid=1&isUI=1
Techcrunch on the troubling provisions of the draft Dodd financial reform bill that will hurt angel investing and consequently depress start-up activity. Those troubling provisions in the draft Dodd financial reform bill include raising the accredited investor threshold, requiring review of (and a waiting period for) Regulation D filings (even solely accredited investor offerings), and removing federal preemption of state blue sky regulations (again, even for solely accredited investor offerings). All the more troubling because angel investing, venture capital and entrepreneurship had zero to do with the recent financial crisis. A solution in search of a problem.
(Source: http://c.brightcove.com/)
Just in time for the next season of Mad Men, someone has posted the book, Scientific Advertising, in its entirety at: http://scientificadvertising.blogspot.com/
From the website: “One of the greatest copywriters of all time, Claude Hopkins invented sampling, risk-free trials, money-back guarantees, market testing and other breakthrough advertising techniques… . First published in 1923, Scientific Advertising is as relevant today as it was 80 years ago. Indeed, David Ogilvy said of it, ‘Nobody should be allowed to have anything to do with advertising until he has read this book seven times. It changed the course of my life.’”
Magician David Blaine‘s talk at TED: “How I held my breath for 17 minutes”
(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3QHkFc3NZw
Every painting in MOMA: on April 10, 2010
(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
Are We Zeroing In on the Hard Problem of Explaining Consciousness?
Coming in January 2011 from the Princeton Architectural Press: “We live in the golden age of the photography book. Since the early 1990s, the number of photography book publishers has continued to grow while technological developments have placed more tools for bookmaking directly in the hands of photographers. For the students and working artists who have chosen photography as their primary means of expression, having their own photography book is seen as a passport to the international photography scene. Yet, few have more than a tentative grasp of the component parts of a book, an understanding of what they want to express, or the know-how needed to get a book published. Publish Your Photography Book is the first book to demystify the process of producing and publishing a book of photographs.”
Danish Architect, Christian Bay-Jorgensen, wants to turn the Hollywood sign into a hotel. Brilliant.
New: A Tunecore for Books – Bibliocore
New: A Tunecore for Books – Bibliocore
Get your e-book on the iPad (and keep all the royalties): “Tunecore has been a boon for musicians … . who pay the Brooklyn-based company a flat fee of $40 or so and then see their music available for sale on Amazon, iTunes, and eMusic. The copyrights all remain in the artists’ hands, as do the revenues; after paying the flat fee, 100 percent of the payout returns to the artists. (The digital stores take their cut first, of course.) Today, Tunecore announced that it would extend this model to e-books through a service called Bibliocore. After an upfront payment, the e-book is delivered to Apple’s iBookstore, rights remain with the author, and Bibliocore takes no cut of the royalties.”
Art of the Steal: On the Trail of World’s Most Ingenious Thief
The Truth about ACTA (a 25 second pre-roll advert precedes the video) from MIchael Geist, law professor at the University of Ottawa
(Source: http://blip.tv/)
Christopher Walken: unhinged and looking for his hand
Christopher Walken: unhinged and looking for his hand
At the IFC blog, first impressions of Walken’s appearance in Martin McDonagh’s new stage play: “A Behanding in Spokane.” Wish I was in NYC to see this.