morefromfreakonomics!

i love fallacies, and in the "upside of quitting" podcast, they talked about the sunk cost fallacy:  "I've got too much invested in this to quit,"  it's often the best time to quit!  they say kids and animals don't do this...sometimes knowing when to say "fuck it" is a real life skill...
   also, interestingly, in "the decline and fall of violence," they said that in hunter-gatherer societies, 15% of all deaths were from violence, as opposed to 3% in the 20th century, with includes all the wars and mechanized death we cooked up...

dark side of saturn

this is an actual picture from NASA’s Cassini orbiter

the original story here

kitty!

from yahoo sports:

San Diego Chargers nose tackle Antonio Garay...we are reasonably sure in guaranteeing that this is the only time you will see a 6-foot-4, 320-pound NFL defender driving a tiny convertible smart car … with the Hello Kitty logo on it.

  I want one!  (in pink, of course!!!)