Closing tabs.
Another link dump! Get your links, free!
1) http://gawker.com/5673652/americans-not-very-good-at-being-corrupt
OK, what's with the map? First of all, I *hate* this projection. Do we seriously need to inflate the size of Siberia and Canada? Wouldn't it be nice to see better detail in Africa? Secondly, how do Severnaya Zemlya or Franz Joseph Land or Baffin Island get a rating, but Svalbard and Greenland do not? If you're going to be ridiculously, needlessly precise, at least be consistent.
As for the content, ok, poor countries are generally more susceptible to corruption, no big surprise there. Interesting outliers; Chile, Uruguay, Bhutan, Botswana, UAE, Costa Rica, and Italy.
2) Need to find a copy of this book: http://www.amazon.com/Overcoming-Depression-One-Step-Time/dp/1572243678/ref=sr_1_3?s=gateway&ie=UTF8&qid=1285788746&sr=8-3
3) Understanding Mobility in America -- 'American Dream' notes:
By international standards, the United States has an unusually low level of intergenerational mobility: our parents’ income is highly predictive of our incomes as adults. Intergenerational mobility in the United States is lower than in France, Germany, Sweden, Canada, Finland, Norway and Denmark. Among high-income countries for which comparable estimates are available, only the United Kingdom had a lower rate of mobility than the United States.
Households whose adult members all worked more than 40 hours per week for two years in a row were more upwardly mobile in 1990-91 and 1997-98 than households who worked fewer hours. Yet this was not true in 2003-04, suggesting that people who work long hours on a consistent basis no longer appear to be able to generate much upward mobility for their families.
4) Rare earth metals in your home: where can you find some cerium, lanthanum, neodymium and praseodymium? Lighter flints. The rare earths are not particularly rare, but extraction is messy, which is why most of it is done in China.
5) Some links for reseeding to FL when I have a chance: Delaney (Nova", interview), Clay Bond (who was like a real life character from a Delaney novel), RIP, on West Virginia, and a bloody vignette (warning: strong language, adults only).
6) Something about soup? http://www.soupsong.com/index.html
7) LJ links to revisit if I feel like thinking more about effective forms of dissent and justifications for shop vandalism. Best post- G20Toronto reflection from Mamamamatas; good round-up of links from muckefuck. Yes, I have had these tabs opened since July, don't laugh!
8) Russian art terrorism, " How to Steal a Chicken?". (adult, NSFW)
1) http://gawker.com/5673652/americans-not-very-good-at-being-corrupt
OK, what's with the map? First of all, I *hate* this projection. Do we seriously need to inflate the size of Siberia and Canada? Wouldn't it be nice to see better detail in Africa? Secondly, how do Severnaya Zemlya or Franz Joseph Land or Baffin Island get a rating, but Svalbard and Greenland do not? If you're going to be ridiculously, needlessly precise, at least be consistent.
As for the content, ok, poor countries are generally more susceptible to corruption, no big surprise there. Interesting outliers; Chile, Uruguay, Bhutan, Botswana, UAE, Costa Rica, and Italy.
2) Need to find a copy of this book: http://www.amazon.com/Overcoming-Depression-One-Step-Time/dp/1572243678/ref=sr_1_3?s=gateway&ie=UTF8&qid=1285788746&sr=8-3
3) Understanding Mobility in America -- 'American Dream' notes:
By international standards, the United States has an unusually low level of intergenerational mobility: our parents’ income is highly predictive of our incomes as adults. Intergenerational mobility in the United States is lower than in France, Germany, Sweden, Canada, Finland, Norway and Denmark. Among high-income countries for which comparable estimates are available, only the United Kingdom had a lower rate of mobility than the United States.
Households whose adult members all worked more than 40 hours per week for two years in a row were more upwardly mobile in 1990-91 and 1997-98 than households who worked fewer hours. Yet this was not true in 2003-04, suggesting that people who work long hours on a consistent basis no longer appear to be able to generate much upward mobility for their families.
4) Rare earth metals in your home: where can you find some cerium, lanthanum, neodymium and praseodymium? Lighter flints. The rare earths are not particularly rare, but extraction is messy, which is why most of it is done in China.
5) Some links for reseeding to FL when I have a chance: Delaney (Nova", interview), Clay Bond (who was like a real life character from a Delaney novel), RIP, on West Virginia, and a bloody vignette (warning: strong language, adults only).
6) Something about soup? http://www.soupsong.com/index.html
7) LJ links to revisit if I feel like thinking more about effective forms of dissent and justifications for shop vandalism. Best post- G20Toronto reflection from Mamamamatas; good round-up of links from muckefuck. Yes, I have had these tabs opened since July, don't laugh!
8) Russian art terrorism, " How to Steal a Chicken?". (adult, NSFW)