May 2012
18 posts
abbyjean:
Can Timeouts Change the Outcome of Basketball Games?
In basketball, timeouts are believed to reverse the momentum of a game. However, here we show timeouts have no significant effect on the final outcomes of games. Moreover, we find that the timeout factor only appears to reinforce the game of dominant teams, meaning that only the most successful teams can find any positive benefit....
“We adore OKC as front-office savvy at its sexiest and most effective, the sports...”
– The Spurs Are The Basketball Illuminati
Straight White Male, the game of life's lowest...
jkottke:
Using a video game metaphor, John Scalzi explains straight white male privilege for those straight white males who get hung up on the word “privilege”.
Dudes. Imagine life here in the US — or indeed, pretty much anywhere in the Western world — is a massive role playing game, like World of Warcraft except appallingly mundane, where most quests involve the acquisition of money, cell...
“This juxtaposition confirms that colleges, like the financial services industry,...”
– Colleges as Merchants of Debt « naked capitalism
“When people talk of gift economies, often they talk about them as a replacement...”
– Sep Kamvar, The Farmer & Farmer (via christmasgorilla)
Start from the customer and work backwards.
(via caterpillarcowboy)
““We find the largest rise in American mortality rates occurred in 1999, the year...”
– When half a million Americans died and nobody noticed - Alexander Cockburn (via llimllib)
“…any democracy that does not transfer income from rich to poor almost always...”
– Robert Frank (via azspot)
“Matthew Crawford argues in Shop Class as Soulcraft that white collar work in...”
– How do you know when someone is great? — John Cook (via llimllib)
“Although women now make up the majority of college graduates, the number of...”
– Attracting More Women to Computer Science Requires Shattering the ‘Brogrammer’ Culture - Education - GOOD (via infoneer-pulse)
Money, Power and Wall Street | FRONTLINE | PBS →
4-part documentary about the financial crisis and its repercussions
journo-geekery:
Feds Seized Hip-Hop Site for a Year, Waiting for Proof of Infringement infoneer-pulse:
Federal authorities who seized a popular hip-hop music site based on assertions from the Recording Industry Association of America that it was linking to four “pre-release” music tracks gave it back more than a year later without filing civil or criminal charges because of apparent...
“What’s wrong with today’s media is that they so pander to the audience that...”
– bestkungfu weblog » 20 years
Matt May, via Mike D:
“Access to instantaneous news should not lead to the production of instantaneous opinion.” - @mattmay bestkungfu.com/archive/date/2…
— Mike Davidson (@mikeindustries) April 30, 2012
(via journo-geekery)
April 2012
25 posts
“When I was in school I took a class with Cornel West, who’s this amazing...”
– Natalie Portman to Zhang Ziyi (x)
um wtf. i usually don’t care about the stuff she says because i’m just like ‘lol w/e’ most of the time at famous people weighing in on ~issues. but this is just … ‘that’s actually proved beneficial’? oh natalie, i think we’re through.
(via commanderspock)
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“There will only be shortage of talent at a particular wage rate.”
– Actually that is silly — McKensey should now that there is and will never be a … | Hacker News
“The Olympics are a business, plain and simple. A tax-free juggernaut called the...”
– Some Olympic Thoughts - Brett Morris on Mark Cuban’s blog (via llimllib)
“p.s. “Acqui-hire” is not a word. Please stop it.
p.p.s. Using the term “talent...”
– 2012 is the year of startups getting acquired
“Buying an audience turned into buying cookie pools which evolved into real-time...”
– Fads & Ads: Rebuilding the Credit Crisis with Online Ads (and it’s gross)
“Principle 1: All successful APIs will be abused in ways you cannot anticipate.
...”
– Don’t Build APIs… | cek.log
“You know what they ought to do with churches? Tax them. If holy people are so...”
– George Carlin (via graphicalundertones)
“If you want to know what the cool kids will be listening to next month, here are...”
– Which City Is the Musical Tastemaker for the US? Hint: Not NY or LA | 80beats | Discover Magazine (via dixiecupua)
“One of the best-kept secrets in economics is that there is no case for the...”
– There Is No Invisible Hand - Jonathan Schlefer - Harvard Business Review (via pukomuko)
“Throughout the past four years, we keep hearing about the impact of this economy...”
– On today’s Fresh Air, how the recession has impacted America’s poorest women. (via nprfreshair)
Good For Women
colorblocking:
I just need to get this out because so much of the response towards criticism of the new HBO show ‘Girls’ has been bugging the shit out of me. It’s not a new argument. I’ve been hearing it for years and years but recently I’ve just gotten tired of tolerating it. People have been promoting ‘Girls’ as this big, feminist triumph. ‘It’s a show about ‘normal’ girls and addressing their...
U.S. Alert as China’s Cash Buys Inroads in... →
A brand new $35 million stadium opened here in the Bahamas a few weeks ago, a gift from the Chinese government. The tiny island nation of Dominica has received a grammar school, a renovated hospital and a sports stadium, also courtesy of the Chinese. Antigua and Barbuda got a power plant and a cricket stadium, and a new school is on its way. The prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago can thank...
“Abolitionist literature focused heavily on the sufferings of the slave,...”
– The Humane Sensibility – The Aporetic
“There were very few accounts of the sufferings of slaves, or the insane, or...”
– The Humane Sensibility – Mike O’Malley (via llimllib)
“We have trouble, in our culture, with any love that isn’t based on sex or blood....”
– A Man. A Woman. Just Friends? - William Deresiewicz (via llimllib)
Holding a gun makes you think others are too →
Wielding a gun increases a person’s bias to see guns in the hands of others, new research from the University of Notre Dame shows. Notre Dame Associate Professor of Psychology James Brockmole, who specializes in human cognition and how the visual world guides behavior, together with a colleague from Purdue University, conducted the study, which will appear in an upcoming issue of Journal of...
“As more great new companies are absorbed into big old companies, a whole new...”
– The next generation bends over - (37signals)
What Explains the Increasing Trend in African... →
In this study, data from the U.S. State Department on visas issued abroad and information from other sources are used to examine trends in African emigration to the U.S. The results suggest that, on average, moderate increases in African Gross Domestic Product between 1992 and 2007 had a buffering effect on emigration trends. Yet, emigration to the U.S. increased much faster from the poorest...
“Friend just told me she showed images from a lynching in class & a student...”
– —From Dr. Jelani Cobb’s Twitter timeline.
How I’d look at the students…
(via racialicious)
“Let us begin our activism right here: with the money-driven villainy at the...”
– The White Savior Industrial Complex - Teju Cole (via llimllib)
March 2012
8 posts
“An ESPN culture that leads with bone-crushing, de-cleating tackles, turning...”
– —What Dr. David J. Leonard discusses on the R today about the white (male) football coach as White Savior is something I always thought was off about how the the people in the sport cast its structure. (via racialicious)
Until this thing broke out, I had no idea bounties were illegal. Between ESPN...
“like Maradona before him, Messi is a master of the gambetta, the peculiarly...”
– In Bed With Messi — Sam Fayyaz (via llimllib)
“Our next stop on Dick Joke Tour 2012 brings us to Delaware, where the Wilmington...”
– Your Sarcastic Dick-Related Legislation Roundup
B.S. Report Transcript: Barack Obama →