Is Money A Virus?
No, but it behaves like one, according to researchers who used an internet game called www.wheresgeorge.com to predict the geographical spread of epidemics. How's that work? Money, like viruses, is spread by people and, since people travel great distances these days, coming up with a way to chart how far and fast an epidemic can travel has been nigh on to impossible.
Is More Information Better than Less?
Heuristics—and Dan Goldstein—say not necessarily. A more pop-culturish explanation is presented on Goldstein's">http://www.dangoldstein.com/dsn/archives/2006/03/malcolm_gladwel_1.html… blog, where he shouts out to an excellent Malcolm Gladwell interview on ESPN.
Is Seeing Believing?
Heck no!
Is Selling a Loaded iPod a Fair Use Issue?
Here's an article from USA Today about vendors selling fully loaded iPods on eBay. Is this a legitimate fair use issue? My gut reaction is no—if vendors were selling loaded iPods for market value or used value, it might not trip my BS detector. But when you are charging several hundred bucks extra for the 11,000 songs you've loaded on the iPod, it seems to me that you've crossed that fair use line in the sand—we've established what you are and now we're just negotiating price.
Is She Going For an Upskirt?
Bill Greene's photo of a curator examining Whistler's Mother is one of the Boston Globe's best photographs of 2006. See the shot and listen to Greene tell how he got it.
Is Technology Changing Our Brains?
Mark">http://blog.hometheatermag.com/markfleischmann/">Mark Fleischmann sends us a cautionary link that argues that our immersion in the technological soup of bleeps, blips, and scattershot images is changing us from critters who think in words to ones that utilize pictures.
Is That a Gramophone In Your Pocket?
StreetTech has the cutest little portables from the 1920s
Is The Entire Universe One Big Quantum Computer?
Well, that's what Seth Lloyd thinks. I love this Technology Review interview because the writer obviously doesn't buy the theory, but he gives Lloyd a fair shake in laying it out.
Is the Record Industry Just Being Greedy?
Gee, what are the chances?
Is Time a Political Concept?
Sometimes it is. "In theory, the planet has 24 time zones. Actually, there are about 39, and they are still hotly debated. Within the past month, President Hugo Chavez has talked of moving Venezuela’s clocks forward half an hour, and Indian scientists have urged their government to do the same."