Weaponized Procrastination

Read this if you care about reading online.

Any interesting article about how to she worked at getting herself to ‘work’ for her and not pining for a self that most likely will never exist.

An older, but framing article.

The showdown in Wisconsin over fringe benefits for public employees boils down to one number: 74.2. That’s how many cents the public pays Milwaukee public-school teachers and other employees for retirement and health benefits for every dollar they receive in salary. The corresponding rate for employees of private firms is 24.3 cents.

Just a humorous look at how current development trends would fare if applied to march madness.

A provokative title, but they make a case against the ‘legalization’ of academia.

I didn’t realize that the number was so low, but I guess it makes sense. Liberia also fits in well with this because of its ties with the US.

Sad, but poignant. Plus science!

infoneer-pulse:

The American Association of University Professors announced today that it was reviewing its policies on colleges’ responses to financial crises in recognition that many institutions face long-term revenue declines.

» via The Chronicle of Higher Education (Subscription may be required for some content)

She Music released a new single! Yeah, I do listen to music that you can get off of iTunes. All of his stuff is excellent and you should listen to it. (See also shemusic.org for the free downloads if you’re interested in trying it out.)

Just in case you missed this as well. Syria is also on the democratic revolution train.

I can’t make this up if I tried!

Capitalism may be to blame for the lack of life on the planet Mars, Venezuela’s socialist President Hugo Chavez said on Tuesday.

“I have always said, heard, that it would not be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but maybe capitalism arrived there, imperialism arrived and finished off the planet,” Chavez said in speech to mark World Water Day.

Just some more thinking on subscriptions and in-app purchases. The argument that the 30% is needed to break even jives well with my own thoughts on the matter - but he’s got more data.

When Steve Jobs said it, offering free apps for so little seemed almost foolish, like Apple was compensating for the high 30% by giving too good a deal to free apps. Why not charge some hosting fee? Or why not give up exclusive distribution and let free apps be installed directly by the user without forcing everything through the App Store? Unlimited bandwidth, promotion in the store, and everything else just for the $99 dev program fee was a pretty good deal.

And now I wonder if Apple hasn’t been backpedaling ever since, trying to make up for that mistake: free apps are a burden. iAd was the first correction, because a share of revenue from free apps was going to Google instead of Apple. In-app purchase is the next correction, because real value can be delivered in a free app with transactions handled elsewhere.

This is just a random bit of Apple history, but a pretty cool one nonetheless.

Really sad.

Yeah, he makes some good arguments against relying on just facebook comments online.