The author of Listening to Prozac explains why there is nothing “deep” or “powerful” about depression — it is a disease like any other – Specifically, he starts with people who say “what if van Gogh had been given anti-depressants?” He ends with Holocaust survivors. But now how you might think, if you don’t know much about depression.
Category Archives: Aside
In New York, turning the old High Line into a 1.5 mile long park – Way cooler than demolishing it. I want to see more pictures!
Anda’s game – A good short story by Cory Doctorow based on the premise that sweatshops can exist in online worlds the same as they do in real life.
MacRumors buyer’s guide – I was looking all over for this slick page that gives info on historial trends in Apple hardware upgrades and tells when the best time is to buy new computers.
Babies who gain more weight in their first week are more likely to be obese in their 20s – Shockingly, babies who eat breast milk rather than formula gain weight more slowly. Just like all the other bad things that formula makes happen. Remind me again why we give formula to newborns?
Cost Of Living Now Outweighs Benefits – Not a good P/E ratio, apparently.
On the decline of Trivial Pursuit – Can’t say I much enjoyed playing the 20th century edition on Friday night…
Labels accuse Apple of holding back innovation in the digital music space – This is funny on so many levels I’m just not sure I can comprehend it. Apple single-handedly ignited the for-pay online music distribution industry, and still sells 70% of the songs sold over the web. Now that Apple has made the industry work, the labels want to start jacking up prices and doing other bone-headed things to screw up a good thing, but Apple was smart when they negotiated their contracts and won’t let it happen. The music industry, brought in line by a scrappy computer company that doesn’t give a shit about their revenue models, is now calling foul, and attempting to move into, of all things, the mobile phone space, because they think people will pay a lot more to buy their music over wireless networks and stick it on their phones than in a format that they can keep on their computers, on CDs, and on iPods. Brilliant.
Comcast sued for disclosing customer info – I hope the morons get what they deserve. Not sure what that is, exactly, but a nice cash payment would be a good start.
That’s it, I need one of these watches – I don’t want to pay $150 for it, though…
Washington Post on the China study – Including the first reference to any part of the report that I worked on, namely figuring out the legal aspects.
Voice of America on the Berkman/UoT China study – Yay for us!
E-mail slip-up by Brandeis president causes stir – Can’t say I expected an actual news story about this, this kid is very…spunky.
Administration has spent at least $2.2 million in taxpayer funds on Social Security propaganda – And they still can’t get the opinion polls up…