“One thing that infuriates both Wall Street and Madison Avenue (don’t you love the way we describe institutions by their location in New York City?) about Google is that the company never asked their permission to do anything.”

(tags: via:toddmundt Google Microsoft Yahoo! business-model business-plan marketing myths)

“The mistake is believing, as we perhaps have too much, that the rating agency saber rattling means they have the will to downgrade. They don’t. The very last thing they want to do is be accused of causing The End of the Financial World as We Know It.”

(tags: ratings investment business-culture face-saving economics reputation prediction)

We seem to be nudging towards SOA

(tags: architecture software development project)

Barbara is compiling the index of Mackay’s Extraordinary Delusions &c, and came across this. Hadn’t heard it before.

(tags: horse-hockey via:logista cant jargon words vocabularism)

(tags: generative-art image graphic-design)

(tags: art public-art architecture interactive performance dynamics environmental design)

(tags: books bibliomania book-art bookshop photography photos)

(tags: John-King books bookseller bookshop photography special-effects)

“This is the first real scientific evidence showing that itch may be inhibited by scratching.”

(tags: fRMI magnetic-resonance cognition physiology medicine somewhat-silly)

via John Holbo

(tags: artist design graphic-design illustration)

(tags: genetic-programming machine-learning prediction stochastic estimation-of-distribution algorithms search optimization)

Applying an EDA to linear GP. As it happens, Push is a (roughly) linear GP language.

(tags: genetic-programming search optimization machine-learning computer-science estimation-of-distribution cunning)

(tags: graphic-design typography cultural-norms)

(tags: generative-art fabrication fab make art design amazing)