It turns out that the whole right/left brain thing is likely not true. The good news is the exercises from Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain are still valid. It doesn’t matter where things happen in the brain, what’s important is that you turn off all the impatient symbolic, verbal, and habitual parts [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2008
I love economics, and so can you!
January 16, 2008
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Economics is far from a “dismal science“. It’s a great way to understand the world because it measures the one thing that’s more meaningful than any survey or election outcome could ever hope to be: what people do with their money.
Another great thing about economics is that it helps you figure out what is actually [...]
The myth of energy independence
January 14, 2008
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Presidential hopefuls keep talking about “energy independence” or “ending our addiction to foreign oil”.
Not surprising since xenophobia is always popular with American voters.
Anyway, today the Washington Post ran a piece showing 5 ways that energy independence is both impossible and irrelevant.
Murakami at MOCA
January 13, 2008
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Be sure to see Murakami at the Geffen MOCA before it closes on February 11th. Here’s a Flickr set, though the pictures don’t do the work justice and they don’t show the really impressive large scale stuff. (Side note: You know what would be sweet? A 40 foot tall Veritech sculpture.)
I hate it when photography [...]
The best thing I read today
January 11, 2008
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From EconLog:
If you want to change behavior, the smartest approach is to change the price most directly relevant to that behavior. If you want to cut carbon dioxide emissions, the smartest approach is not to start spending money like a drunken sailor on anything vaguely related to carbon dioxide. The smartest approach is to [...]
Implosion: It’s not just for record labels anymore.
January 7, 2008
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Guess what. The gatekeepers are seriously poked.
I’m trying to think of situations where it would be advantageous for a creative person to sign with a record label, take VC money, or do a book deal in a world of cheap computers and the internet.
To produce and sell music you need a computer, a network connection, [...]
More Digital Rights Management failures
January 3, 2008
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There were two posts on BoingBoing today about customer hostile DRM causing legitimately purchased products to fail.
Leaving aside the fact that DRM is unworkable from a cryptography perspective because the “attacker” is the same person as the indended “recipient” of the encrypted content, I wonder if the quality of developers has anything to do with [...]
