• Jos haluat säästää, maksa käteisellä – se sattuu enemmän (Frontal Cortex) – There's some suggestive evidence that the brain makes simple consumer decisions by comparing our desire for the item (as represented by areas in the dopamine reward pathway, such as the nucleus accumbens) with the pain that comes from having to pay for the item. The problem with credit cards is that they abstract the payment: Instead of taking cash out of our wallet, we just swipe this thin plastic card. As George Loewenstein, a neuroeconomist at Carnegie-Mellon says, "The nature of credit cards ensures that your brain is anaesthetized against the pain of payment." Spending money doesn't feel bad, so you spend more money.
• Pontiacin halpismuskeliautojen synty, uho & tuho (NY Times) – The GTO’s birth can be traced to the musings of Bill Collins, a member of Pontiac’s advanced engineering group in the 1960s, at one of the informal Saturday morning get-togethers organized by John Z. DeLorean, Pontiac’s larger-than-life chief engineer. Mr. Collins pointed out that the husky V-8 from a Bonneville or Grand Prix would fit into the same space occupied by the Tempest’s tame engine. It was a head-slapping moment for engineers in search of performance.
• Shoot! An Appalachian gunsmith’s robot army (New Yorker) – You can fire an AA-12—which shoots five shotgun shells per second—with one and hold a mug of coffee in the other without spilling it. Made almost entirely of aircraft-grade stainless steel, the gun can fire thousands of rounds without cleaning. Baber spent a dozen years, and upward of a million and a half dollars of his own money, perfecting the gun. He believes that the AA-12 is the most deadly close-range weapon ever created.
• Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest – w a u
• Top 10 Greasemonkey User Scripts, 2009 Edition (Lifehacker) – ainakin 1, 5, 8 ja 10 näyttää mulle sopivilta

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• Who's Hungry? -lyhytanimaatio (YT) – via http://twitter.com/ndorra/status/1793553618
• Survs – Collaborative Online Survey Tool – tälle saattaisi olla jopa ihan oikeaa käyttöä
• Type Faces eli tekstillä tehtyjä muotokuvia –
• WILCO (the album) – streamattavissa bändin sivuilta
• Sanoman uudet freelancer-ehdot kuviksi tulkittuina – hihii

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• TiltShift Generator –
• Maailman lintulajien suomenkieliset nimet –
• Dan Baum kertoo urastaan New Yorkerissa – mahtavan kiehtovaa luettavaa
• Use modifier keys with Active Screen Corners (macosxhints) – Kas, enpä moistakaan tiennyt
• George Plimpton haastattelee Ernest Hemingwaytä, Paris Review 1958 (pdf) – If it is any use to know it, I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn’t show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story.

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• Reinventing Newsweek – This issue of NEWSWEEK will be the last before we relaunch with a new design, a new editorial strategy and an entirely new business model.
• There are six categories of white supremacists in the United States (Slate) – neo-Nazi, Ku Klux Klan, Christian Identity, racist skinhead, Nordic mysticism, and Aryan prison gangs. Do you have to belong to one or the other? No, there's a fair bit of crossover.
• Awesome Mixtapes from Africa – tämäkin löytyi Popbitchin kautta
• The short, disgusting life of the Hummer (Salon) – As General Motors tells Congress it is weighing the fate of the gas guzzler, Salon compiles a scrapbook. Enjoy these proud moments in Hummer history.
• Ihmisiksi puetut koirat vetää drinksuja ja jutustelee (YT) – pelottava
• Conservatives were more likely to report that Colbert only pretends to be joking – mä… ei… pakko… yrittää… sanoa…

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• Why can't we concentrate? (Salon) – In many cases, the thing we wish we would do is not only more interesting but ultimately more fun than the things we do instead, and yet it seems to require a Herculean effort to make ourselves do it.
• Internet Memes – siisti skrollattava timeline
• Katsaus The Onionin bisnesmeininkeihin (AdAge) – That's the odd part. If you were to look up our media audit — which you're probably not going to do — our readership grew even though we took circulation down. The pass-around factor for The Onion is pretty huge.

  The fact is that print, despite what we did this week in those two places, is a really good business for us. It's a very solid, nice chunk of cash. I personally think that there's room for us to grow the print business. Some of my younger colleagues don't agree with me.

• The highs and lows of Auto-Tune – The most important piece of musical equipment of the last 10 years is not an instrument or a physical object. It’s called Auto-Tune and is used on roughly 90 per cent of all pop songs. It is what’s known as a ‘plug-in’, a specialized piece of software made to be inserted into other, bigger pieces of audio software. Auto-Tune bends off-key notes into pitch perfection.
• Oliver Blank – We Were Walking In The Rain EP –

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• OmniDiskSweeper auttaa löytämään tilasyöpöt kovalevyltä (OS X) – löysin 1,3 gigan Epsonin printteriajurit, Thunderbirdin yli 30 gigan kakkutiedostot ja 6 gigaa Dropboxin välimuistisälää
• Dropbox cache cleaner (OS X) – Yhtäkkiä mulla onkin 6 gigaa enemmän levytilaa
• 25 Microchips That Shook the World –
• Stars & Stripes – The White Stripes Reimagined – Starring Hov, Nas, Mop, Mos, Monch, Busta, Yeezy, Red, Em, Com, Outkast, Big, Pac
• Ducktales l. Ankronikka -tunnarin soinnut –

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• Media moguls – Pulitzer, Hearst, and Murdoch (New Yorker) – Back then, nobody would have picked the Times and the Wall Street Journal as the country’s most important newspapers. That distinction belonged to two papers that have long since disappeared: Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World and William Randolph Hearst’s New York Journal. The papers, and their owners, were flamboyantly rich, Democratic, populist, and popular. Although they sometimes purveyed information and analysis, in the manner of the Times and the Wall Street Journal, their business was mainly telling stories—turning the life of the world’s rising metropolitan, industrial superpower into captivating adventure and drama.
• Miltä näyttävät erilaisten nettipalveluiden oletus-avatarit? –
• Nicholas Carr: Tim writes a book – ahihhi: "Tim wrote a book. The title of Tim's book is The Twitter Book. Tim didn't use a pen to write his book. Tim didn't even use a word processor to write his book. Tim used PowerPoint to write his book"
• In China, Knockoff Cellphones Are a Hit (NY Times) – Technological advances have allowed hundreds of small Chinese companies, some with as few as 10 employees, to churn out what are known here as shanzhai, or black market, cellphones, often for as little as $20 apiece.
• WordPressin teemoittelu on kehittynyt aika pitkälle kaikkine frameworkkeineen –

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• Conde Nast to close Portfolio – uusi talouslehti + nykyinen taloustilanne = auts
• The underground world of neuroenhancing drugs (New Yorker) – Adderall, a stimulant composed of mixed amphetamine salts, is commonly prescribed for children and adults who have been given a diagnosis of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. But in recent years Adderall and Ritalin, another stimulant, have been adopted as cognitive enhancers: drugs that high-functioning, overcommitted people take to become higher-functioning and more overcommitted. (Such use is “off label,” meaning that it does not have the approval of either the drug’s manufacturer or the Food and Drug Administration.) College campuses have become laboratories for experimentation with neuroenhancement
• God Is Back -kirjan arvostelu (NY Times) – The market that niche religious leaders stepped into was the hole opened up by modernity, and their product was something the authors call “soulcraft.” Instead of raging against modern life, they sold themselves as easing the way for the harried middle class. Church became a place to form social bonds, get dates, meet fellow moms isolated in suburbia, lose weight.
• David Foster Wallace – Commencement Speech at Kenyon College –
• Shouts & Murmurs: Amen, Brother – After a blissfully romantic courtship lasting only twelve years, Stacy and I were married. We had decided to save ourselves for our wedding night, because, as I reminded Stacy over and over, “The first time I make love to a woman, I want it to be sacred and special, and not just mindless, unending pleasure, like sex with a guy.

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• Virginia Hefferman pohtii, miksi yleisökommentit ovat netissä ihan perseestä – Online newspaper commenters as a whole seem to have (at least) the stamina, drive and spare time to become a cogent part of online journalism. But as it is, online commentary is a bête noire for journalists and readers alike. Most journalists hate to read it, because it’s stinging and distracting, and readers rarely plow through long comments sections unless they intend to post something themselves. But perhaps the comments have become so reader-unfriendly, in part, because of the conventions of the Web-comment form.
• Whatever Happened to the Top 15 Web Properties of April, 1999?  –
• Uuden median murros Alma Mediassa, Sanoma Oy:ssä ja Yleisradiossa 1994-2004 – via Suviko
• Yhteiskunnallisia ohjelmia keränneen Apps for America -skaban voittajat – siis sitä kamaa, mistä Peter Corbett puhui Mediapäivillä
• In pictures: The four faces of the Bengal tiger – uuuuui!

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• Depeche Mode: Wrong-musavideo – biisistä vieläkään välitä, mutta video on hiano
• Sasha Frere-Jones kirjoittaa Lady GaGasta sekä kertakäyttöisyyden ja kestävyyden suhteesta popissa (New Yorker) – The artist who stays on the charts for years without interruption sometimes does it by virtue of professional acuity and inoffensive predictability. Some of pop’s most delightful figures endure exactly because we can’t figure out what they are up to.
• Seymour Hersh Uncovers New Thing Too Sad To Think About (The Onion) – Sources at The New Yorker said a new article by investigative journalist Seymour Hersh "blows the lid completely off" a subject matter far too soul-crushing for the human brain to process.
• Tweeting Too Hard – Where self-important tweets get the recognition they deserve.
• The Final Four Of Everything – ( A vs B ) vs ( C vs D )

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