Mentalblog links

Slate: Blink and The Wisdom of Crowds - How to improve the decision-making environment. By Malcolm Gladwell and James Surowiecki.

Talking about crowds, all the people who bought ipod last month are pathetic, with the white wires hanging from their ears. But here is something more interesting from Apple (via Engadget): Say hello to Mac Mini!

Some geek at kuro5hin.org (bad language warning): Why your Movable Type blog (and any other blog) must die:

You are all pretentious twats Every last one of you. You're all latte-sipping, iMac-using, suburban-living tertiary-industry-working WASPs who offer absolutely no new insights on anything whatsoever apart from maybe one specialist field if we're lucky. Most of you think that you're writing original content and that you're making a contribution by licensing your spewings under Creative Commons "Some Rights Reserved" licences, just because it's the hip thing to do. You think you know all there is to say about blogging because you understand the concept of HTML and CSS, but the horrible truth is that 40% of you are all using the same shitty default layout. Then you take pictures of yourselves looking pensive or making vague allusions to mythology.

Biur Chametz has a photo of: The Intifada at Duke University.

Jews in green photos: Channukah in the desert.

The following speech was written for delivery to the WJC Plenary on January 10, 2005. Leibler, Sr. Vice President of the organization, was not allowed to address the plenary before or after being summarily dismissed from his position: israelinsider.

UPDATE - Haaretz: For the WJC, the investigation has only begun.