December 28, 2009
It just doesn’t work,” Watts says, when I meet him at his gray cubicle at Yahoo Research in midtown Manhattan, which is unadorned except for a whiteboard crammed with equations.

Is the Tipping Point Toast? — Duncan Watts — Trendsetting | Fast Company

UGH. I hate when I start reading an interesting article and then see that it’s like six pages long (I’m kind of a slow reader due to mild ADD). WHY DID YOU NEED TO DESCRIBE THE SETTING IN SO MUCH DETAIL? It’s an article, not a fucking novel.

Update: I finished the article. Definitely a good read, mostly because it supports my worldview of anarchy and chaos overlaid with a fictional lattice of “experts” who are essentially astrologers getting paid to give analysis that sounds reasonable, but is mostly worthless.

“that’s the thing about magic,” says Watts. “If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.”

Foster Burger opens soon, where Cava once was on 53rd and Foster. Burgers, Milkshakes, rock and roll!

Courier Coffee Roasters

Duly noted. Close enough to check it out for lunch some day.

Miss u guys.

Miss u guys.

Min # of infants impeded from boarding airplanes because their names were on the US no-fly list: 14 http://harpers.org/x/2005/11/31
December 27, 2009
justin:

ronworkman:

soupsoup:colinashe:


The National Geographic compares health care costs: on the left is health care spending per person, and on the right, average life expectancy. A line that slopes down from left to right indicates relative inefficiency, while a line sloping up from left to right indicates a relatively efficient system.

justin:

ronworkman:

soupsoup:colinashe:

The National Geographic compares health care costs: on the left is health care spending per person, and on the right, average life expectancy. A line that slopes down from left to right indicates relative inefficiency, while a line sloping up from left to right indicates a relatively efficient system.

More twitter music ahead. And then music made out of dirt. After that just slippery rubber music. And then cold music from space. Then it will be star music and then it will be all whale all the time. Then sand, which will really be a dirt revival, and then back to neo-twitter music, which will just be short code burst choir swarms that flashmob through implants in the populace. That’s about 2035. Marcus and Claire can take it from here.
Rich Jensen on Owl City (via sciencefiction)
December 24, 2009