December 2011
27 posts
This Is The Letter That Got Mark Hurd Fired As CEO... →
Mark Hurd is a creep. Why would any company want him as CEO (looking at you, Oracle).
Cardinal George Stands By KKK Comment, Calls For... →
another impressive leader from the catholic church
“Those moves have continued, including this month’s addition of certified...”
– Jacksonville Jaguars’ Maurice Jones-Drew says lawsuits have caused NFL to crack down on concussions - ESPN
This sounds like a sweet job.
Ouch: A Year's Worth of Occasionally Disturbing... →
These are great, especially:
For women, an increase in personal grooming time is associated with lower earnings; for example, if a nonminority woman doubles her daily grooming from 45 minutes to 90 minutes, her earnings drop an average of 3.4%
and:
Activating a positive superstitious belief can boost people’s confidence, which in turn improves performance: In an experiment, a dexterity...
“Their results are fairly counter-intuitive. They showed that traditional...”
– Roland Fryer Identifies Five Habits of Successful Charter Schools
Interesting education research.
The Book of Jobs | Politics | Vanity Fair →
Stiglitz’ version of “the great stagnation” just a little shorter. Worth reading just for the sense that at least a few people “get it.”
The Legend Of Black Superman: Billy Ray Bates,... →
The Michael Jordan/Charlie Sheen of the Philippines
“Fan death is a widely held belief in South Korea that an electric fan left...”
– Fan death - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Absurd facts of the day
How Doctors Die →
“Anybody who had a hand in letting Holloway and Mark Lyons speak to the media...”
– Mark Titus Top 12 NCAA Power Rankings on Syracuse, Indiana-Kentucky, and the rest of the week in college basketball - Grantland
thats a very stiff penalty considering how awful skyline chili is.
“I really hope people keep buying it a lot, so I can have shitloads of money, but...”
– Louis CK: Live at the Beacon Theater
Interesting Louis CK going direct to consumers with new standup special. Wonder what HBO thinks about this
things that are unnecessary
when people present and say, “I won’t go into too much detail” and then go into a bunch of detail. I’ll call this one MIT syndrome.
reading every word from a powerpoint slide. your first mistake was using all text. give me a pretty picture to look at and tell me a story.
expensive wedding invitations. no one saves these. order two or three for your scrap-bookers and...
“No, actually, I think at the time the Constitution was written it was pretty...”
– Romney defends same-sex marriage stance to gay veteran - Politics - The Boston Globe
Yes and when the constitution said “we the people” this included everyone except women, blacks, indentured whites, and indians.
We’ve made a little progress there.
Healthcare is messed up
Prices I have paid over the last 16 months for the same 30 days supply of a generic medicine.
$10
$10
$10
$6.49
$4.20
$9.26
$9.75
$4.20
$4.20
$9.22
$9.22
$9.22
$9.22
$9.22
$9.22
$7.50
I’m going to pick up another month tonight. I have no idea what I will pay.
THE GREAT IVY LEAGUE NUDE POSTURE PHOTO SCANDAL -... →
Weird and interesting read
Why I Sold Zappos →
What I Lost in Libya - Magazine - The Atlantic →
POW story from libya
Longreads: GQ's Sean Fennessey: My Top Longreads... →
longreads:
Sean Fennessey is the editor of GQ.com. (See more stories on his Longreads page.)
I’ll try to follow a few guidelines for the sake of imagined objectivity, so, no friends; no GQ pieces; no pieces published before January 1, 2011; no stories pseudonymously submitted by my mom; no…
Good stuff here