The bailout exposed deep hypocrisy all around. Those who had preached fiscal restraint when it came to small welfare programs for the poor now clamored for the world's largest welfare program. Those who had argued for free market's virtue of "transparency" ended up creating financial systems so opaque that banks could not make sense of their own balance sheets. And then the government, too, was induced to engage in decreasingly transparent forms of bailout to cover up its largesse to the banks. Those who had argued for "accountability" and "responsibility" now sought debt forgiveness for the financial sector.
I loved his first book "Daemon"... If you haven't, you should read it.
I use posterous.com to post all my updates across all of my streams (blogs, twitter, facebook, friendfeed, etc...). The only exception to this is the occasionally semi-private posts in facebook. This has worked extremely well and has simplified the process tremendously for me. But recently I find myself wanting to use newer features that are not directly supported by posterous. Retweeting is one of them. To be clear, posterous allows you to retweet anything in posterous (using the old "RT" standard), but there is no direct support for the new Twitter retweet feature in posterous as shown below.
So I use other tools, and this retweet doesn't cross into my other streams (Facebook, Posterous) automatically. Re-tweet is an example of a drawback of these types of services (i.e. posterous). Does it become an escalating arms war of features. As services add features, can posterous keep up and normalize these features across all streams effectively? I hope so.
via biography.com
A Guilty Pleasure!
Brains in middle age, which, with increased life spans, now stretches from the 40s to late 60s, also get more easily distracted. Start boiling water for pasta, go answer the doorbell and — whoosh — all thoughts of boiling water disappear. Indeed, aging brains, even in the middle years, fall into what’s called the default mode, during which the mind wanders off and begin daydreaming.
Given all this, the question arises, can an old brain learn, and then remember what it learns? Put another way, is this a brain that should be in school?
As it happens, yes. While it’s tempting to focus on the flaws in older brains, that inducement overlooks how capable they’ve become. Over the past several years, scientists have looked deeper into how brains age and confirmed that they continue to develop through and beyond middle age.
via nytimes.com
What's up with Jennifer Lopez Hair Jacket?!?!