Friday Five: Links to take you to the weekend in style

From Al Filreis: Man Tries to Pay Bill with Spider Drawing

The Sports Guy on his favorite YouTube clip

Historical stock returns and the Graham P/E ratio

Timeline twins from Kottke, with some interesting comments following

The Atlas of the Real World

Friday Five: Links to take you to the weekend in style

A little early this week, as I'll be offline tomorrow:

Harold McGee offers the most striking contribution to the turkey technique conversation I've seen in a long time. (My solution to the problem that the breast is always overcooked? Let the rest of the family eat it.)

Take your David Foster Wallace jauntily from 1987 or elegiacally from 2008. Steel your heart before clicking.

Michael Lewis on the end of the boom; this is an essential supplement to Liar's Poker and probably worthwhile if you haven't read LP.

Here's an unusually interesting entry on the groundbreaking blog of Paul DePodesta, the GM of the Padres, about the decisions regarding Brian Giles and Trevor Hoffman in the offseason.

And I can't quite leave politics behind yet: the cotton vote.

Election Day Special: Friday Five on a Monday!

All politics this time--what else would we be thinking about?

The Republican mayor of San Diego changes his mind on Prop 8

Nate Silver's final pre-election take on the cellphone effect

From Errol Morris, People in the Middle for Obama--I'm always interested in how Morris moves between documentary and advocacy


My Wife Made Me Canvas for Obama; Here's What I Learned

Finally, don't worry: my opinions aren't likely to influence my students'.

Friday Five: Links to take you to the weekend in style

Via boingboing: College Humor does a great little bit of satire: Fake Disney movie trailer for the Sarah Palin story

The effect of income anxiety on lottery ticket purchases

The Radiolab episode on making the hippo dance, or presenting academic ideas to a non-specialist audience

Obama: The price of being black

Via Kottke, Roger Ebert on how to read a movie

Friday Five: Links to take you to the weekend in style

Bruce Schneier on getting cybersecurity right in the next Presidency

Top 10 conversation hacks

A striking little piece on the competitive advantage of Costco

Malcolm Gladwell on big ideas

Jean-Michel Rabaté perceives a singularly American form of political lying

Friday Five: Links to take you to the weekend in style

Beyond overconfidence: Tyler Cowen reports on new views of ability bias

Find out why last week's ruling on executive privilege is such a big deal. This is worth understanding.

Zombies reciting haiku

Nate Silver strikes again: a lovely little contextualization of Evan Bayh's politics

San Diego Padres General Manager Paul DePodesta, on his blog of unprecedented GM transparency, runs down how trading after the deadline works in baseball

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The NINES project is at the cutting edge of literary studies; here is a taste of the work it's doing to enhance digital scholarship and teaching.

Nate Silver of fivethirtyeight.com develops a fascinating little metric for evaluating Vice Presidential candidates' political strength

Tyler Cowen and Will Wilkinson discuss uncertainty and humility

Some of the young folk don't know about Laurie Anderson: Here's an interview to introduce them to her.

Kevin Kelly, always good for a striking insight, projects the second 5000 days of the web. I especially like the idea that we will start linking ideas rather than pages.

Friday Five: Links to take you to the weekend in style

I'm trying out a potential weekly feature: a set of five links gleaned from my internet readings. Here's installment 1 of X.

Beat box cook (ht Carolyn)

A fantastic probability quiz from the Wall Street Journal, and the answers

Steve Levitt on the economics of sounding black in the New York Times

50 commercial parodies

Name trends (ht Kottke)