delegates infographic

If a picture is worth a thousand words, how many words is an interactive infographic worth?

frontpage of nytimes at 2008-4-22 20:10 ET

(and it would be so much cooler if it didn’t use Flash)

Depopulation of eastern Germany

SOMETHING odd is happening to the cities of eastern Germany. Plattenbauten, the soulless prefabricated apartment blocks thrown up by the region’s former communist rulers, are being knocked down. Occasionally one will be truncated, shorn of its upper storeys. Older streets are gap-toothed where wreckers have removed abandoned houses. Cityscapes are being pruned, removing dead and [...]

links: US, university, technology, behavioral economics

United States

1 in 100 U.S. Adults Behind Bars, New Study Says (NYT): “For the first time in the nation’s history, more than one in 100 American adults is behind bars, according to a new report.”
Gun Crazy (NYT): “Atrocities like [the school massacres] make Americans feel angry and perhaps helpless.”
Rich man, poor man: The life [...]

links: Rist, books, etc.

Pipilotti Rist

SFMOMA | Making Sense of Modern Art: Pipilotti Rist: The guide, by Rist herself, is wonderful. I remember the exhibit well.
Pipilotti Rist Videos

ZKM: fast forward - Media: More commentary (in German)
U B U W E B: Pipilotti Rist: Most of her videos.

Books

The Internet Speculative Fiction Database: Interesting quantitative literary studies project.
Steven Levy - Book [...]

links: week 4, podcast recommendations

A few days a friend asked me for my favorite radio shows and got me thinking about my current radio consumption. When I was growing up, I listened to my the NPR station in Boston for hours every day, yet I rarely listen to FM radio anymore. My “radio” listening these days is almost entirely [...]

links: week 3

putnam-rorty video via 3quarksdaily
Little video about the Putnam-Rorty debate and the revival of American pragmatism.
Inside Higher Ed :: Call to Arms for Academic Labor
Review of Marc Bosquet’s How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation (book website)
Technology Review: “You Don’t Understand Our Audience”
Wonderful commentary by former NBC producer on what’s wrong with the [...]

links: first week of 2008

Convinced that I ought to have something to show for all the time I spent online last month, I thought I might try out posting a few links.
Economics

Brad DeLong’s Political Economy and American Economic History lectures at UC Berkeley are online and made good mp3 player fodder for me. DeLong’s a free trade neoliberal but [...]