I had a good day today, thanks for asking. One of those days where you clean up a lot of loose ends, and feel virtuous as a result...
Here we have "The World", 300 islands in the shape of the world, a unique investment opportunity. Amazing. You, too, could own California - or France. Check it out! [ via Tom Coates ] ![Permalink](/images/link.gif)
In the same vein, here we have "The Poseidon", a five-star $1,500 per night hotel under water in the Bahamas. [ via Cory Doctorow ] ![Permalink](/images/link.gif)
John Stanforth: Why do we overcommit? Read it all, but essentially, we are better at measuring tangible resources than we are intangibles like time. Oh. ![Permalink](/images/link.gif)
Yippee the Economist has RSS feeds. Welcome to the party, boys. This is one of the few magazines left that adds value; I look forward to getting updates in between issues. And stay tuned for links :) ![Permalink](/images/link.gif)
For a typically insightful articles, consider The Economics of Sharing. "Economists have not always found it easy to explain why self-interested people would freely share scarce, privately owned resources. Their understanding, though, is much clearer than it was 20 or 30 years ago: co-operation, especially when repeated, can breed reciprocity and trust, to the benefit of all." There is no such thing as altruism, but enlightened self-interest is another story... ![Permalink](/images/link.gif)
This is pretty cool, a kaleidoscopic use of Flash. Move your mouse back and forth for extra weirdness. Kinda makes you want to inhale, doesn't it :) [ via collision detection, in a link titled "dude" ] ![Permalink](/images/link.gif)
If you like that, you might enjoy this graphic, too. Just too weird what your brain does after it gets the signal from your eyes, huh? ![Permalink](/images/link.gif)
Thrasymachus at GNXP considers The Flynn Debate. "Possibilities: 1) The Flynn Effect is based on bad data. 2) The Flynn Effect tracks non-g rises in IQ. 3) The Flynn Effect measures a rise in g. Therefore better environments improve g a lot. 4) The entire concept of g is somehow faulty 5) The entire concept of IQ is somehow faulty." I like (1), but he likes (3). I'm pretty sure g is not that tied to environment... ![Permalink](/images/link.gif)
Basketball. Whoa. [ Via Jane Galt, via Marginal Revolution, via Ottmar Liebert. ] ![Permalink](/images/link.gif)
Via Dave Winer, Howard Greenstein links the User's Guide to the Brain. Looks like a cool book, I've one-clicked it. I have a brain, but I never got the user's guide. I guess I'm one of those people who never read the manual. It would be nice to hit F1 for online help once in a while :) ![Permalink](/images/link.gif)
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