December 2009
25 posts
Ezra Klein - Encouraging organ donation →
rafer:pukomuko:abbyjean:
In January, Israel will become the first country in the world to give people who sign their organ donor cards points pushing them up the transplant list should they one day need a transplant. Points will also be given to transplant candidates whose first-degree relatives have signed their organ donor cars or whose first-degree relatives were organ donors.
In the case...
rafer:stryker:
Decided today that if I ever started a band I would call it The Torrent. Our first album would be called Lossless.
Just try finding that leak, you jerks.
“1) everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal;
2)...”
– Douglas Adams in DNA/How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet, explaining how the world works (1999). (via designtumblelog) (via rafer)
WatchReedy’s new short film - it’s rad!
Promoting at random instead of by merit reults in...
melodymcc:
Since most of the time jobs that are higher up the corporate ladder are so different from jobs that are lower, employees who do well in their jobs wouldn’t necessarily do well when promoted. Because we can’t predict who will and won’t do well promoting by random is best. Interesting article. -m
In 1969, the Canadian psychologist Laurence J. Peter posited the “Peter Principle”: people...
