January 2006

Political bias affects brain activity, study finds – LiveScience – MSNBC.com – Members of political parties get a rush from ignoring alternative viewpoints

The New York Review of Books: Genocide in Slow Motion – Kristof gives an incredible overview of the genocide in Darfur.

IVR Cheat Sheet(tm) by Paul English – how to get a real person on the phone for many many companies!

OGLE: The OpenGLExtractor | OGLE: OpenGLExtractor by Eyebeam R&D – Frumin made something you use for 3-D mashups…

Pall Thayer’s fun with Apple’s Sudden Motion Sensor (ams/sms/accelerometer)

IsGoogleEvil.pdf – the paper arguing that Google hurts culture through its externalities; hurting certain types of knowledge.

Marginal Revolution: How Google changes information markets – “My main worry is that we learn more about topics with readily imagined keywords, and we neglect hard-to-define abstract concepts.” Interesting…

National Geographic News Photo Gallery: Top Ten News Photos of 2005 – “Gas Theif Escapes on Tricycle”…awesome.

ESSAY; Wish List: No More Books! – New York Times – “Several years ago, I calculated how many books I could read if I lived to my actuarially expected age. The answer was 2,138…In principle, there would be enough time to read 500 masterpieces, 500 minor classics, 500 overlooked works of genius, 500 oddities and…more

The MySpace Generation – we gotta figure out why this MySpace thing works so well…