Marginal Revolution: German fact of the day – “On average, a working-age German works about 2 hours and 35 minutes per calendar day.”

The Road to Serfdom – by Hayek, in cartoons

Amazon.com: Books: Mind Hacks (O’Reilly’s Hacks Series) – good Christmas item for some people I know?

“If I am looking for intelligent and unselfish understanding of our problems, and a generous approach to their solution, I shall seek it among the makers and builders with far more confidence than among the talkers, the manipulators, and the vote seekers.” Walter Teague

“All sin starts from the assumption that my false self, the self that exists only in my own egocentric desires, is the fundamental reality of life to which everything else in the universe is ordered.” – Thomas Merton, Seeds of Contemplation

CNN.com – From cell phone to sunflower – Dec 6, 2004 – cell phone cover that contains a sunflower seed and nourishes it into a flower when it is thrown away

Edge: INDIRECT RECIPROCITY, ASSESSMENT HARDWIRING, AND REPUTATION: A Talk with Karl Sigmund – the idea of indirect reciprocity being sourced in Robert Trivers, the idea of “paying it forward”, like Heifer International

“In the future, designers will create scaffolds for experiencing. We will design and build convivial tools. In doing so, we will learn how to help everyday people to express their own creativity.” – Elizabeth Sanders

The Becker-Posner Blog: Introduction to the Becker-Posner Blog – some great thinkers here…