Great Insight into the Randtards in the New Yorker
Posted by Chris Hoofnagle on January 7, 2010 Check out this week’s New Yorker for a well-put insight into the Rand-infected mind. Nick Paumgarten writes about John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods and his attitudes towards unions: …His [Mackey's] disdain for contemporary unionism is ideological, as well as self-serving. Like many who have come before, he says that it was only when he…
Free: The Dismal Deal
Posted by Chris Hoofnagle on November 28, 2009 Chris Anderson’s provocative new book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price, argues that in the digital world, “free” pricing is a realistic and normatively good approach to pricing information products. Unlike the physical world of “free” products, which is plagued with fraud and tricks, the properties of the digital world make free actually possible…
Want to be a wind up china doll?
Posted by Chris Hoofnagle on November 23, 2009 Take Pristiq. Warning: side effects include becoming a fat wind up doll.
Get the H1N1 Vaccine Where the Poors Are!
Posted by Chris Hoofnagle on November 14, 2009 The Viking and I ventured out early this morning to get the H1N1 vaccine and found long lines in the tony neighborhoods. SF Gate reports that the Marin public vaccination clinic was swamped. (The irony!–Marin is a hotbed of the anti-vaccination movement.) So where can you get the vaccine quickly? Downtown! We were in and…
I Increasingly Am Horrified by My Sex and Apologize Collectively for All Men to All Women
Posted by Chris Hoofnagle on November 13, 2009 Exhibit 1001, on our great college and university campuses, this wretch can complain of coyote ugly. The nerve. Nice hat, BTW. Do you have a matching jersey? Ladies, imagine waking up with this puffy misogynist! Via Gawker. Exhibit 1002, Southern Football’s Dating Game in Today’s WSJ.
One More for the Ayn Rand Deprogrammer
Posted by Chris Hoofnagle on November 13, 2009 The Bitch is Back, by Andrew Corsello: “2009′s most influential author is a mirthless Russian-American who loves money, hates God, and swings a gigantic dick. She died in 1982, but her spawn soldier on. And the Great Recession is all their fault…”
Who Peruses Playgirl?
Posted by Chris Hoofnagle on November 8, 2009 All this excitement about Levi Johnston in Playgirl Magazine is pretty interesting. We have the forthcoming tell-all book about Sarah Palin and fam, and the author posing naked. And who reads Playgirl anyway? It occurred to me this morning that we could get some idea from looking at the magazine’s datacard, which at least would…
Don’t Even Give them Your Zip Code Anymore
Posted by Chris Hoofnagle on October 31, 2009 Consumers who have asked me whether they should give their zip code at the register have been getting bad advice! I was under the misimpression that zip-level data was only being collected for demographic research purposes (to determine where stores should be located, and advertising directed, on a mass scale) and thus said that no…
Google’s Leadership on Privacy
Posted by Chris Hoofnagle on October 21, 2009 For some time, I’ve been trying to better understand Google’s worldview on privacy issues. The culture of companies fosters different privacy values and sensitivities, and the signals sent by those at the top shape how the organization itself conceives of and addresses privacy issues. In wrestling with this, I read every article discussing Google and…
Gawker: The Best Blog on the Internets on the Worst Oped Page
Posted by Chris Hoofnagle on October 16, 2009 Alex Pareene has given voice to what many longtime Post readers believe: Fred Hiatt needs to be axed. Under editor Fred Hiatt, the Post op-ed page has gone completely off the rails. They picked up Bill Kristol after the Times dumped him for being not just wrong but boring and lazy. They openly allow George…
