Friday Special - week 1
For those of us in the 'office sector', Friday is a special day. This is the first in a series of Friday posts listing some of the interesting stuff I came across during the previous week.
What to do if you have a big appartment, loads of coins and time to spare (video)
The gender genie - enter any text to predict the gender of the author. Seems to work too!
Via Greg Mankiw, a hillarious anthropological account of Life Among the Econ
Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, on The Joy of Righteous Indignation
The New York Times: For $82 a Day, Booking a Cell in a 5-Star Jail
Cheating Scandal at Duke
BBC News: Woman put excrement in man's curry
The New Zealand Herald: Colonisation and Christianity blamed for smacking
Kopi Luwak, the most expensive coffee in the world
Levitt and Dubner discuss economic research on monkeys
Levitt again, on why drugdealers live with their mums. (video)
Reuters: Muslim women in France regain virginity in clinics
Mapped up: News and blog feeds from around the world - with country of origin marked on funky map. Available as screensaver and online.
