29 June 2009: Afternoon By The Morning News — 29 Jun 2009 Scientists say current grant system "provides disincentives to funding really transformative research." New favorite blog: NCBI ROFL, collecting funny studies. Everyone thinks Stuart is so sensitive. He is, but he's also like any other Scottish man--he has a hard time saying what he feels. Notes on how Wikipedia's co-founder and the Times kept news of its kidnapped reporter off the web. Notes on "marriage hunting" in Japan; speed-dating now offered during baseball games. Italy's Grillo: "Perhaps the purest example today of comedy crossing from political satire to political activism." The luxury hotel for everyone else. Study of the Four Seasons' franchise business model. Account of how one man organized a flashmob to moonwalk in London. L.A. bookstores mourn regular customer, big reader Michael Jackson. Headline: London blamed for Jackson's death. Graphic of Michael Jackson's Billboard rankings compared to Usher, U2, the Beatles, others. How Nonesuch Records' anthropological approach to music lead it to becoming "the United Nations of rhythm and sound." Op: We as a culture reserve our right to shower disdain on the Black Eyed Peas. Man desires a toaster. Man desires to build a toaster. Man builds toaster. Based on some of the late work, art critics speculate Picasso may have had hippie tendencies.
