Wrapping Dogs Tweet Wrong Hogwash, Right?
Three Tweets For The Web by Tyler Cowen (The Wilson Quarterly): Cowen completely inverts the arguments of “the internet is making us stupid” worriers. The best bit is the analogy of blog aggregators as marriages compared to books as long distance relationships. [via]
Getting It Wrong: Surprising Tips For How To Learn by Henry Roedinger and Bridgid Finn (Scientific American): Apparently the idea that we can learn by making mistakes is surprising. [via]
The Dogs Have Eyes by Michael Schaffer (Washington Post): Dogs are not humans, and do not care about Christmas presents. It’s better for everyone if we try to understand their dogginess. [via]
Wrapping Up: A Genre Ages Out by Sasha Frere-Jones (The New Yorker): Frere-Jones claims that hip-hop is dead. I’m not really with it in terms of proper hip-hop, but hip-hop influenced chart pop seems pretty arid right now. Then again, they could make a megabudget zombie movie if all the claims of rock and roll being dead were true, because it seems to keep rising from the dead despite all our best efforts.
Left vs Right World by David McCandless & Stephanie Posavec (Information Is Beautiful): Diagram that makes a clever delineation of beliefs on the left vs those on the right look like a McSweeney’s cover. [via]
Unadulterated Hogwash by Chuck Jones and Tex Avery (Letters Of Note): Two Warner Brothers animators take issue with an interview with a third animator who claims to have invented all the best characters (but was mostly responsible for Tweety). Ooh controversy!
