New Food
Innovation in cooking continues without the protection of intellectual property rights (via Freakonomics). The parallels to live music seem important.
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More On The Shallows
Steven Johnson defends our digital age.
“ All successful revitalization efforts focus on upgrading existing local assets — developing better ties among colleges, universities and communities, strengthening business districts, upgrading parks and open spaces, preserving and reusing old buildings and supporting local art and music.”
— Richard Florida
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
“In the Aeroplane Over the Sea” — Phish, Columbia, MD 6/26/2010 (via etree).
Does it make me a bad person that I sorta hope this pisses some people off?
Here’s hoping that the next version of iBooks gets the PDF highlighting and notes that were introduced for ePubs today.
If I finish some work ahead of schedule this week, you all might suffer a rant filled with my hopes and dreams for notes and metadata on the iPad, tentatively entitled, “Content Creation, Not the Herculean Task it’s Made to Be.”
Safari Reader will apparently stitch together (in some circumstances) pages from different articles. Pictured above is today’s Future Shock and Under the Knife from Baseball Prospectus. Maybe the stitching was triggered by the link at the bottom to the previous article along with the sequential article ID numbers in the URLs?
I assume 3 other people besides me find this interesting and 1 of them is on his way to Portugal.
I still mostly prefer Readability.
The Velluvial Matrix
Atul Gawande on complexity in medicine and healthcare.
Federal Regions
A smattering of federally defined regions of varying levels of importance.
The Twelve Federal Reserve Districts
United States Courts of Appeals
United States Department of Energy
Mind Over Mass Media
Steven Pinker defends our digital age.
“ In part due to competitive pressures, it’s newspaper writers and talk-show hosts who, by and large, push the notion that there’s always a reason, that there has to be a reason.”
— Joe Sheehan writing about the over-interpretation of small samples in baseball, but it could be about public opinion polls, or primary election results or whathaveyou.
