Entries from November 2004

Saturday, November 27th, 2004

Change blindness

Via . Change blindness: Simons and Levin (1998) produced a comparable effect in the real world with some clever choreography. In one study an experimenter approached a pedestrian on the campus of Cornell University to ask for directions. While they talked, two men rudely carried a door between them. The first experimenter grabbed the back [...]

Saturday, November 27th, 2004

If computers were sold like drugs.

If computers were sold like drugs.

Saturday, November 27th, 2004

Marketocracy notes

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Monday, November 22nd, 2004

Banning the FDA

Via Cafe Hayek. This article presents an eloquent case for letting consumers make their own decisions about which drugs to take. http://www.mises.org/journals/rae/pdf/rae7_2_1.pdf Banning a Risky Product Cannot Improve Any Consumer's Welfare (Properly Understood), with Applications to FDA Testing Requirements Robert Higgs Neoclassical welfare economists maintain that consumers suffer when risky goods are supplied in an [...]

Monday, November 22nd, 2004

Who Needs Harvard?

Via : http://www.brookings.edu/views/articles/20040902easterbrook.htm Who Needs Harvard? The Atlantic Monthly, October 2004 Gregg Easterbrook, Visiting Fellow, Economic Studies Gregg Easterbrook Today almost everyone seems to assume that the critical moment in young people's lives is finding out which colleges have accepted them. Winning admission to an elite school is imagined to be a golden passport to [...]

Friday, November 19th, 2004

[GEEK] How to delete your favicons cache (and possibly speed up Safari)

Safari has become unbearably slow, even if I close it and restart. Some people have reported that deleting the favicons caches may make it faster again. The favicons caches are stored in the $HOME/LibrarySafari/Icons directory. Here's how to delete them. * Close Safari * Open Terminal * Type the following command: find $HOME/Library/Safari/Icons -type f [...]

Friday, November 19th, 2004

[GEEK] How to turn on debug menu in Safari

* Turn off Safari. * Open a Terminal. * Type the following command: defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1 Restart Safari, and the debug menu should appear.

Wednesday, November 17th, 2004

readline in Mac OS X (10.3.5) Panther

Mac OS X (10.3.5) Panther does not ship with the readline library. (Apparently because readline is GPL'd). However, without it the Python interpreter is braindead (i.e. no command history). You can add the readline library (without preinstalling the MacPython Panther extensions ) with the following command: sudo python `python -c “import pimp; print pimp.__file__”` -i [...]

Monday, November 15th, 2004

Test post to geek filter

[ To the geek. ] Test post to my geek filter. Can any of you see this? At the moment, nobody should.

Monday, November 15th, 2004

Earl Warren house

Laren Corie writes: “Back when I was in my first architectural school (I was seventeen) I showed some of my drawings to a dear friend who said “Oh, those are just like the houses in Charlevoix.”?| After about an hour of me says “Naw, nobody really builds things like that, These are just my dream [...]