Paradise Loop

Bike Ride to Laie

Hillary DeathWatch

Human Misjudgments

Great blog entry summarizing Charlie Munger's (Warren Buffet's right hand man) speech "The Psychology of Human Misjudgment." The first two points are the most interesting: (1) people underestimate the power of incentives and (2) people like being liked which leads to bad decisions. I also like the brief take on curiosity, although i don't know why that is a negative.

Click Here for the blog entry.

Feist on the Colbert Report

At the beginning and the end of the video you can see Stephen wearing Feist's outfit from the Apple commercial.

Data Visualization and the 2008 Election

Who talks about whom in the political debates? I found a cool dynamic
diagram on the NY Times that shows you which candidates mention other candidates names and how often.