Are suckers born or made?
Posted: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 2:08 AM by Will Femia
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Games
Last night I was reading
this piece and its related links about the rise of "alternative medicine" and corresponding compromise of actual science based medicine. Then
I saw Bob in the office today. He was booked to go on the air to talk about new credit card scams and the fact that hard economic times make people more susceptible to scams. After he came back to his cube we chatted about the psychology of suckerness and how interesting it is and then, waddayaknow, tonight I come upon
this summary of a book called Predictably Irrational, which is about that very subject of suckerness. (The summary is actually an outline, which I'm a little embarrassed to say makes it much easier to read and digest and if it had been a long bit of text I probably wouldn't have made it as far as I did.)
If texting costs the phone company
next to nothing, why does it cost as much as it does? I know the answer is that it costs what the phone companies can get, but why hasn't a price war brought that price down further?
I sent
this photo to one gal in cube farm and listened to the cascade of "awww"s as it was forwarded across the floor.
Random thing to play with of the day:
cloth physics simulatorI'm listening to The Black Keys because
their song Lies plays in the background of a commercial for Big Love on HBO. This particular song is pretty bump & grind, but a lot of the songs (the earlier ones?) are strikingly reminiscent of old Black Sabbath if any of you are Tony Iommi fans. (And yes,
the original is still around.)
The file name says "
oarfish" but since the bulk of my marine biology knowledge comes from reading the tags on pet store fish tanks I'd say that's a seriously huge arowana.
I didn't understand why so many people were linking to what looks like a pretty crackpot article about the U.S. dissolving into civil war in two years until I saw mention of
the map at the end (I hadn't bothered to read that far into it myself). Still utterly crackpot but fun in a post-apocalyptic sci-fi way.
Amateurs are trying genetic engineering at home - Relax! What could possibly go wrong?
I've been calling this the
awesome zombie game but looking at it now I realize it doesn't actually say zombie on it anywhere. For some reason, maybe the colors or the way the bad guys swarm, it reminds me of zombies. Anyway, awesome. One note: it's much easier with a mouse than a laptop touch pad.
Rex has once again rounded up
the year's list links in a link list.
