Weekly linkage
This week’s internet cruising, in which I was evidently trying to make up for lost time.
- A Vegan No More | Voracious – This woman went through a struggle to find her health as a vegan… and found that she needed to go back to eating meat. Her journey is well-documented and heart-breaking, although I found her dogmatism rather creepy. She believed very strongly in veganism, and now believes very strongly in omnivorism.
- Vegan Defector Talks Back | Voracious – Part 2 of the no-longer vegan story.
- To Teach Your Kids Money Management, Start Your Own Bank – A cute take on teaching kids how to save. I'm still divided on the whole "give an allowance for nothing (chores are a family duty)" or "give compensation for chores" debate, but the bank idea is cool.
- Physician compensation – A look at how a change in physician compensation (lower salary, but extra compensation per certain procedures performed) changed the number of patients seen per day, the number of procedures implemented, and the types of services performed. It's not as cut and dry as I expected.
- The ‘Boxing Glove’ Wireframing Technique – Felt tip pen and post-its. That's pretty slick.
- Reason #87858 that the world still needs Buffy The Vampire Slayer – See, this is why I don't miss being interested in Hollywood movies.
- Captain Hindsight fails again – "Campaign advisers say that [H. Clinton] would have settled on a 'ban on exclusions for pre-existing conditions.' Nonsense. Even the Republicans pay lip service to supporting those. The problem is that you can’t just do that."
- ‘They Have Encouraged and Assisted Thousands of Our Slaves’ – Ta-Nehisi Coates – National – The Atlantic – Slavery was surprisingly in the fore-front of the secession movement. It's very hip in new-age history (which I myself was taught) to focus on the complexity of the causes of the war (which was there, sure) and downplay the "formerly overplayed" role of slavery. I should send this to my high school history teacher…
- Why I Hate… The Saboteur Opinion – Page 1 | Eurogamer.net – I don't hear much about big-name games like Saboteur, but this review is wonderfully strong. The game seems incredibly dumb. (Link courtesy of Jonas.)
- In Graphics: What Are Capital Gains? – This is really timely–I just started doing my 2010 taxes, and this is the first year I've ever sold investments. This mess is annoying when you've been reinvesting dividends and automatically investing–that's a whole lot of short- and long-term gains/losses.
