Among the things I learned this week:
* A pasty is a tasty treat. (Courtesy: PMS)
* One-fifth of NYC’s visitors are international visitors, and this group is the source for half of visitors’ retail spending. (Courtesy: NYT)
* An intensive course in pop music, including Cody Simpson, Austin Mahone, Ms. Peachez and more. (Courtesy: EC)
* Crepes are harder to make than I expected. (Courtesy: Personal experience)
Among the things I learned this week:
* People love commenting on, mostly IRL, and reading this series of blog posts. (Courtesy: Personal experience)
* Apple played a significant role in the popularization and death of floppy drives. (Courtesy: Steven Vaughan-Nichols)
* Julian Charriere has an interesting art project in Venice’s Piazza San Marco that involves the coloring of pigeons. Surprisingly, most reports I read don’t bother including a photo. Odd Stuff Magazine (NFI) has a photo with its post on the matter. (Courtesy: NYT)
* There is an annual afro-punk festival in Ft. Greene. It amazes–in good and bad ways–that I only just now learned this. (Courtesy: NYT)
* During the Great Depression, leading US economists proposed the Chicago Plan: separating monetary and credit functions in the banking system and 100 percent backing for deposits. Repeated analysis demonstrates this model would have significant positive affect on the US economy. (Courtesy: IMF)
Among the things I learned this week:
* Everyone knows a graphic designer. No one knows Web devs, SEs, or analysts. (Courtesy: Personal experience)
* North Korea is recalling calendars due to problematic dates and important information that is missing. Centrally-planned and distributed calendars strike me as highly problematic and a topic worthy of a dissertation. (Courtesy: North Korea Economy Watch)
* LBJ’s difficult and complicated position before, during, and immediately after JFK’s death. (Courtesy: The New Yorker)
* Verizon has a sense of humor:
It wasn’t all protest and lulz, however.
(Courtesy: Verizon’s 2012 Data Breach Investigations Report)
* Accredited investors include people with incomes of $300,000 or more (I knew the $1m in non-home assets part). (Courtesy: Washington Examiner)
* One reason to have car doors that pivot from the seat side (rather than foot area side) is to make it easier for women in heels to get out of the car. (Courtesy: NYT)