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The World is Flat – Audiobook Giveaway
The Other Side of Outsourcing is a Discovery Channel documentary by Thomas Friedman on high-tech outsourcing to India. In it Friedman visits a call centre in Bangalore to interview the young Indians working there, and then travels to an impoverished rural part of India where he debates the pros and cons of globalization with locals.…
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Barackbook
Republican site Barackbook mocks Obama’s Facebook support. With ‘his’ status set as “Barack is hoping to settle on an Iraq policy before November”, Barackbook attempts to highlight some of Obama’s “more controversial real life ‘friends,’ while cheerfully mocking his much-hailed online sheen”. In all, the site is a shockingly clever 21st century twist on the…
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Secrets of Book Publishing
The author of Bit Literacy (one of the Startup Bibles) on the secrets of book publishing that they wish they had known: The publishers are not doing it for the love of books; they want something that sells. If your book will sell, it doesn’t matter what you’re writing about. Your main job – practically…
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More Psychology of Mirrors
Mind Hacks has brought to my attention a number of interesting mirror-related studies: Mirror Agnosia […] a condition where people lose their sense of reflection. In these cases, the patient still has intact knowledge about mirrors, they can describe what they do and how they work, but they can’t seem to put it into practice.…
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Startup Ideas Y Combinator Would Like to Fund
A list of startup ideas Y Combinator would like to fund: A cure for the disease of which the RIAA is a symptom Simplified browsing More variants of CRM Web Office apps Online learning Tools for measurement A form of search that depends on design New payment methods A web-based Excel/database hybrid A buffer against…
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The Psychology of Mirrors
The Psychology of Mirrors Subjects tested in a room with a mirror have been found to work harder, to be more helpful and to be less inclined to cheat, [and] were comparatively less likely to judge others based on social stereotypes about, for example, sex, race or religion. “When people are made to be self-aware,…
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Best Psychology Articles (2003-2006)
In 2006—to mark its three year anniversary—the British Psychological Society’s Research Digest asked some of the world’s best psychology bloggers to discuss a psychology journal article from the last three years which they found inspiring or that changed the way they think. The result: the best psychology articles from 2003–2006 Just how good are police…
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The Better Idea
Since reading Ramit’s The Myth of the Great Idea over two and a half years ago, I’ve been tinkering with the idea. However, it’s always the simplest things that win-out in the end. The myth of The Great Idea is a dangerous one. It makes you constantly search and search for something that you’ll probably…
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25 Photography Tutorials
A list of 25 great photography tutorials and links – courtesy of Digital Photography School.
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Will Draw Anything for $2
Yirmumah will draw you anything—in a comic book style—for just $2. Why am I doing this? Number one, it’s fun. Number two, it’s practice to make me faster and keep me sharp drawing various things I wouldn’t have thought to draw. […] Now the 2 dollar thing just seems very funny to me for some…