February 2012
6 posts
For Founders to Decorators, Facebook Riches -... →
venomous porridge: An honest question for the TSA →
dwineman:
Every day at your airport checkpoints, you screen thousands of passengers for objects that could conceivably be used as a weapons. If you find one, you confiscate it, and the unfortunate traveler continues on her way, cupcakeless but no longer a threat to national security. You’re also looking…
Does Airport Security Really Make Us Safer? |... →
Model S →
Oh, if I had money…
January 2012
28 posts
Addicted to Cheesy Potatoes →
Airbnb's Global Growth Infographic →
Best photos of the year 2011 | Reuters →
In Which I Fix My Girlfriend’s Grandparents’ WiFi... →
Where the Wild Things Are as read by Walken →
Adele's Rolling in the Deep, covered and covered... →
Paying for Parking — Marginal Revolution →
Maximizing shareholder value is "the dumbest idea... →
LIFE Classic: Eugene Smith's 'Country Doctor' →
Hunter S. Thompson's 1958 cover letter for a... →
Your Body Wasn’t Built To Last: A Lesson From... →
Nobody Understands Debt - NYTimes.com →
4,748 Self-Portraits and Counting on Devour.com →
Kids going nuts with stickers...it's art! →
What's it like to deeply understand math? →
How online banking could stop sucking | | My... →
December 2011
5 posts
Louis C.K.'s giant pool of money →
Louis C.K. recently put out a self-produced comedy album that he sold exclusively from his web site for only $5. The album has sold 200,000 copies, grossing him $1,000,000. He’s keeping a bit less than a quarter of that, a quarter is going towards recouping production costs, but the rest is going to charity and for bonuses for his employees.
A new Mozart? 12-year-old composer hailed as... →
How Doctors Die « Zócalo Public Square →
Warfarin patients should be offered... →
Common sense strikes again. Yes, please, here in Canada too!
November 2011
17 posts
The Business About My Breasts // Forbes →
New protocol boosts stroke thrombolysis rates |... →
50% of treatable strokes got treatment, versus 3% before… awesome!
Doctors with Borders →
It’s hard to know what is worse about a new paper in the British Medical Journal, the simplistic economics or the troubling ethics. The paper, The financial cost of doctors emigrating from sub-Saharan Africa, adds up the government-paid cost of educating a health worker in Africa and then multiplies that cost over ~33 years by an investment factor to find the “losses” to the educating country of...
StarCraft changed my life | The Verge →
An entirely different universe that I am completely unfamiliar with. Watch the insane video contained within on “APM”.
Siri Argument - CollegeHumor Video →
The Face of Modern Slavery - NYTimes.com →
