How bad is our decisions making? Just ask the monkeys!

Good TED talk on by Dr. Laurie Santos about how monkeys make similar financial decisions making mistakes as humans.



Well, as Rowan Hooper from the New Scientist points out, this has now inspired the The first advertising campaign for non-human primates. (of monkeys shaking their booty, to advertise specific kinds of Jello.)

Reich's 6 points on the economy

From Pragmatic Capitalism, I found Robert Reich's 2.5 min, six bullet skinny on the economy:

The bullet points:

1. Economy doubles since 1980, but wages flat. Where did the money go?
2. All gains from the economy go to the super rich. and...
3. With money comes political power. Taxes on Super rich slashed, revenues evaporate. this leads to...
4. Huge budget deficits. Middle class agitated, fight for scraps
5. Middle class divided. Buying and borrowing slow. Resulting in:
6. Anemic recovery.

Apples new Pad

Here's one for urban planners. Apple is proposing a new campus that will provide the following:

• increase employee seating by 40% (up to 13k)
• increase space by 20% (3.1M sq ft.)
• increase external landscape by 350% (5.9M sq.ft.)
• increase trees by 60% (6k)
• reduce surface parking, and all that assfault by 90% (-8600 sq.ft.)
• reduce the building foot print by 30% (-400k sq.ft.)

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Evil Cisco?

(shocker...Not!) Network World reports on Bloomberg story about how Cisco is resorting on intimidation tactics to sell their product. ...never saw anything like that before... :)

The Art of the Start

How to present (or how to present your startup), by Guy Kawasaki.
part one, two, three, four.

You spent how much on that degree?!?!?

Anthony P. Carnevale, Jeff Strohl, and Michelle Melton from Georgetown University, put together a nice document outlining how much a degree is worth. There is also a nice article in the Chronicle of Higher Education reviewing it.

Fun things to do in a coffee shop...

Well... More related to Wifi, how to troubleshoot it, and maybe to hack it too.

• inSSIDer and ekahau for coverage maps
• Nice writeup on how to crack WEP, and another howto
• NeoPwn to let you crack from your cell phone, or how to get backtrack on your phone