Yes We Keynes!
...that whatever the government does, private firms could do better; and, of course, the Efficient-Markets Hypothesis, which assumes that when investors floated pets.com $82.5 million in its initial public offering,...
Reputation scores and hedged friendship
...recently, reputation-management companies like Reputation.com are eager to help with this, offering to monitor mentions of you and develop mop-up strategies for problems. They also hope in the future to...
Beauty Blogosphere 8.24.12
...and potato chips! Oh, criminy. Who doesn't eat weird post-breakup? I recall being unable to stomach anything other than buttered toast after finding a then-boyfriend's active profile on Match.com (some...
The Science of Life as Art and Dissent
...include eighteenth-century aesthetic theory/philosophy, poetry, art history, media, and music. Currently Chris teaches for the Department of English and School of Communication at Loyola University Chicago. Contact: [email protected]; http://theboundingline.com/....
No, You're Already Pretty
...Thanks to everyone who entered the Already Pretty giveaway! I went numerically-chronologically, starting with the-beheld.com, then e-mail entries from readers understandably frustrated by the Blogger comment system, then...
All Housing Doesn’t Matter
An interview with Anti-Eviction Mapping Project cofounder Erin McElroy
Your Friends and Neighbors
...down Is Anyone Up for good. The site's URL redirected to a long essay from Moore on anti-bullying site Bullyville.com explaining that he'd gotten tired of reporting all the underaged...
Arguing the Web
...the time. As always, if you have any trouble, hit us up at tni | at | thenewinquiry.com. Thanks for your support, and we'll see you on the internet....
Sunday Reading
...Mere Physical Masses for Data for Harvesting Cops are asking Ancestry.com and 23andMe for their customers' DNA Bodies without Skin Scores of scores: How companies are reducing consumers to single...
The Last Cat
...faces America.” In hindsight of course it is clear that the day’s most historically significant launch was that of the website ICanHasCheezburger.com, though it would be months before the establishment...
Single Servings
...data, the sites have every incentive to prevent you from finding a steady partner so you will keep feeding them information. Slater concedes that “to varying degrees,” the dating companies...
The More Things Change
...MyNewOrleans.com. You can reach him at [email protected]. Josh Neufeld is a cartoonist & illustrator and the creator of A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge, a nonfiction graphic novel about seven...
TNI Hosts: Conservative Thought Salon
...event will take place in Brooklyn, NY; anyone in the area is welcome to attend. Please contact us at [email protected] for more information. Why conservatism? Because conservatism is a serious...
Daddy O
...Men.com and the newer Icon Male are both flooded with variations on the same theme. The two most popular scenes at Men.com (according to their home page) are My New...
Conspicuous Consumption
...be born blind. That was the idea behind the (now defunct) vegan-run website Exvegans.com, which listed ex-vegans by state, with snide comments about their Judas-like betrayals of the animals, and...
Secret Catalan Poem
...seems more accurate: "From late Middle English, in the sense 'announce publicly,' from Latin divulgare, from di- 'widely' + vulgare "publish, from vulgus 'common people.'" Thanks to Ethel and César...