OFF-TOPIC
The Nordic countries: The next supermodel – The
Economist
Politicians
from both right and left could learn from the Nordic countries
Steven Soderbergh – Vulture
On quitting
Hollywood, getting the best out of J-Lo, and his
love of girls
New Way to Deliver a Drama: All 13 Episodes in
One Sitting – NYT
Binge-viewing,
empowered by DVD box sets and Netflix subscriptions, has become such a popular way for
Americans to watch TV that it is beginning to influence the ways the stories
are told — particularly one-hour dramas — and how they are distributed.
And the Award for the Next HBO Goes to... – GQ
The quirky
little start-up that once printed money by mailing you DVDs is hell-bent on
morphing into the HBO—and the network, and the any-show, any-time streaming
service—of tomorrow. Can Netflix and its pathologically modest founder, Reed
Hastings, pull it off? Who knows? But it's going to be fun to watch, starting
this month with David Fincher's $100 million House of Cards. The only
guaranteed winner in the bloody battle for the on-demand future? You. On
your couch
The Vulnerability Of
The Elites – World
Economic Forum / ZH
Geopolitical Risk in 2013: Categorizing the major
themes, risks, opportunities, and wild cards—based on discus-sions of the
Global Agenda Council on Geopolitical Risk in Dubai, November
2012
100 Feet Tall Wave Largest Ever Surfed – The
Big Picture
The Peter Principle Revisited: A Computational
Study – The
Big Picture
Why morons
end up ruling and what could be done about it.
Maybe. But
the United States would need to consider the consquences...and
what happens next.
That Daily Shower Can Be a Killer – NYT
Interesting
look on risks.
The
economic crisis in Europe is driving people to slot machines and video poker games.
How Productivity Tools Can Waste Your Time – WSJ
Rise of the Empiricists – The Big Picture
Is the US becoming more of an empirically
based society? The early evidence across a variety of fields is in, and it
appears to be yes — albeit rather slowly. I suspect this adaptation is going to
accelerate rapidly over the next decade.
Tear Down the Swing Sets – Slate
And the
plastic forts. Here’s how to put the play back in playgrounds.
Man in the machine – Babbage /
The Economist
For the
past nine years Scott Maxwell has worked on Mars. Or at least as close to it as
is possible on Earth. This, it turns out, is Pasadena, California, home to
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which manages many probes, rovers and
satellites for America's space agency.
'Fake Geek Girls' Paranoia Is About Male
Insecurity, Not Female Duplicity – The
Atlantic
US free to grab EU data on American clouds – euobserver
An obscure
section in a US law is said to entitle authorities
to access, without a warrant, data stored by any EU citizen on clouds run by
American companies.
IN FINNISH
Ruotsi on hyötynyt
omasta valuutasta – analyysi vain pitää tehdä kunnolla – tyhmyri
Cronberg: Suomi voisi
kiintiödä opiskelu- ja työpaikkoja espanjalaisille – Karjalainen
Cronberg pitää mahdollisena, että seuraavien eurovaalien
jälkeen valtaan voivat nousta EU-vastaiset ryhmät. Äärioikeistolaisten
puolueiden kasvaminen on vaarallista, hän varoittaa. (yrjö!)
Finanssiala tekee sen
mahdolliseksi – Nordea
Luonnollisten
monopolien myynti etenee – käytännössä verotusoikeus ulkomaisille
sijoitusyhtiöille? – tyhmyri
Suomen kauppatase
– Janne
Suuronen / US Puheenvuoro
Eurooppalainen Suomi
– Heli
Hämäläinen / US Puheenvuoro
Vai vakautta ja
kasvua – katin kontit – Jan
Hurri / TalousSanomat
Euromaat ovat sopineet, että kunkin jäsenmaan ja koko
euroalueen talous on vakaa ja kasvaa. Kriisi on osoittanut, että moiset
sopimukset ovat pelkkää paperia ja vaikuttavat jopa tarkoitustaan vastaan.
Kaikista maailman talousalueista juuri euroalueen talous on jo vuosien ajan
ollut epävakain ja heikoin.