after an extraordinary housing bubble and massive crash, Americans have basically learned nothing about the risks of homeownership.
Month: April 2010
Thriving Among Pirates
nigeria, india and china produce 4x more films per year than hollywood, despite rampant privacy. how does this work?
My first surprise was the discovery that in each of these famously pirate-laden countries, piracy is not really rampant – at least not in the way it is usually portrayed by copyright police. Piracy of imported (i.e., Hollywood) films is rife, but locally produced films are pirated to a lesser degree. The reasons are complex and subtle.
Storefront for Art and Architecture
NYC gallery focusing on architecture. The facade of the space can be configured in many different ways to open directly into the street. The facade opening up onto the sidewalk is the main attraction.
Torchwood
seasons 1 & 2: meh, 3rd season really intense.
StackOverflow Reputation
voting down someone costs you reputation. that is pretty smart.
Best Corners to Hail a Cab in NYC
3rd ave / 11th for us. too bad they do not link to the data.
Law Abiding Engineer
great machinima
Extreme Commuting
A commuter who travels 1 hour, one way, would have to make 40% more than his current salary to be as fully satisfied with his life as a noncommuter.
Peak of Eternal Light
a point on a body within the Solar System which is eternally bathed in sunlight.
Open Prosthetics
Open Prosthetics (OP) is a web-based education and collaboration initiative of the Shared Design Alliance, a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation. We are dedicated to facilitating crowd-sourced curation of information and collaboration in the field of prosthetics and coping with missing body parts in general. OP was created and has been maintained with the hope of producing useful innovations, and of creating an environment conducive to the creation of such innovations: the “adjacent possible”
open source comes to body mods
Gregor J. Rothfuss 