February 2012
5 posts
The old plan was this: Use interest rates to stabilize demand and ensure full employment.
And the old question was: What if 0 percent nominal interest rates are inadequate to produce full employment?
And we had two answers: Use quantitative easing and discretionary fiscal policy to stabilize demand and ensure full employment.
But we don’t have full employment, and the...
“What happened to radical Christianity, the un-nice brand of Christianity that...”
– Robert Capon (via azspot)
then it became The Institutional Religion of an Empire; now we’re stuck with this one
January 2012
3 posts
OWS Fights Back Against Police Surveillance by... →
Now the protesters are fighting back with their own surveillance drone.Tim Pool, an Occupy Wall Street protester, has acquired a Parrot AR drone he amusingly calls the “occucopter”. It is a lightweight four-rotor helicopter that you can buy cheaply on Amazon and control with your iPhone. It has an onboard camera so that you can view everything on your phone that it points at. Pool...
December 2011
22 posts
DocumentaryStorm →
churchofcyberpunk:
DocumentaryStorm is a website dedicated to free full-length documentaries gathered from all over the net. The main objective is to spread knowledge, index the thousands of educational videos on the internet and an all around freedom to investigate human ingenuity.
“The most common sin of economists is to take a point which is true in part and...”
– Adam Ozimek, Modeled Behavior
“Something improbable will happen today, probably.”
“Ask Osama bin Laden and the 22 out of 30 top al-Qaeda leaders who’ve been taken...”
– President BARACK OBAMA, in response to a reporter’s question during a briefing yesterday; Republicans had charged that the President’s foreign policy had amounted to nothing but “appeasement.”
This is the best variation on “frak you” EVER. And the full quote is better than what was floating around...
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WatchAnd yet only a comedy show seems able to put it front and center, in the face of the terrifying arguments of McCain, Butters and Levin: (via The End Of America - The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Beast)
“Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the...”
– Chuang Tzu (via peeceofmymind)
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So it seems like European leaders are finally getting around to solving some of its financial problems and Belgium has a government? It’ll all topsy turvy….
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November 2011
9 posts
So this odd thing popped up on my dashboard
When I was a kid, I didn’t have a laptop, iPod, Blackberry, PS3, Wifi or iPads. I played outside with friends, bruised my knees, made up stories and played hide and seek. I ate what my mom made. I would think twice before I said “no” to my parents. Life wasn’t hard, it was good & I survived. Kids these days are spoiled. Re-post this if you appreciate the way you were...
"Search your URL without '.tumblr.com' on Google...
fwarg:
nikkotine:
Apparently a photo I took is being used in an article about teenage depression.
I mean, they kinda sourced me, in that they kept my Flickr username in the file name. It’s just interesting, I never thought a photo of mine would ever be used without my permission. I didn’t know people ever still bothered looking at my Flickr photostream at all.
I totally approve. Also,...
“Mars is a great ‘backup’ planet and we’re going to need it!”
– (via climateadaptation)
Venus is better. It’s got the right gravity!
I still find myself hitting the keyboard shortcut...
I bet you there’s a cool German word for absently doing things that were habitual but are now obsolete or no longer have any effect.
October 2011
2 posts
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Why Do Some People Learn Faster? →
In her own research, Dweck has shown that these mindsets have important practical implications. Her most famous study, conducted in twelve different New York City schools along with Claudia Mueller, involved giving more than 400 fifth graders a relatively easy test consisting of nonverbal puzzles. After the children finished the test, the researchers told the students their score, and...
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Bubbles by David Brin →
On planets, they say, water always runs downhill …
Serena had no way of knowing if it was true. She had never been on a planet. Not in her brief million or so year life so far. Nor had any of her acquaintances. The very idea was absurd.
September 2011
18 posts
How Not to Redesign a Suburb →
» Alex Steffen:
And when a suburb was built is critical. A sharp distinction needs to be made between older, inner-ring suburbs (often comparatively dense, with “good bones” that can allow infill development and redevelopment of auto-focused commercial arterials into people-focused streets, close enough to central cities to participate in joint transit and infrastructure planning) and the...
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