Greg Palmer

The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to avoid being deceived by economists.

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—	Joan Robinson (via west2nd)

Notice anything missing? Yep - no “month” on those dates. I hate when it’s obvious people aren’t using the products they create.

It’s really tough to see that this article is more than one page long. This happens often on news websites - I’m not sure why designers there don’t see an extra click/pageview as valuable enough to make sure people click through to read the whole piece.

bohemea:

Julianne Moore by Frank W Ockenfels 3

wdagency:

Thirty-five years and 100,000 toothpicks down…

bohemea:

Lady Gaga - Judas

Worst ever.

Inaccuweather. (PS - thank the skies for the rain!)

It will contain all the news on every sphere of human interest, and the news organized. There will be articles on politics, books, sport, scandal, science, society, and no article will be longer than 200 words … [It would] serve the illiterate upper classes, the busy business man, the tired debutante, to prepare them at least once a week for table conversation.

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—	Briton Hadden and Henry Luce, describing their new magazine, TIME, to potential investors in 1923. This sums up most of today’s media startups, too. (via zachklein)

Holy crap!