“Here’s a Web site that identifies all the superdelegates and their commitments, or lack thereof. It’s the kind of tool that the back room bosses from 1984 could never have imagined — and today’s political bosses are probably horrified to see.”

“The aim of this project is to open up the Democratic nomination process, and to gauge what effect the superdelegates have on the nomination. Rather than hypotheticals at the end of this nomination process, we seek to make hard data available.”

“From the perspective of neoclassical economics, self-punishing decisions are difficult to explain… The real mystery, it could be argued, isn’t why we make so many poor economic choices but why we persist in accepting economic theory.”

“Founded in 1976, the Chicago Map Society is the oldest map society in North America. Meetings are held during the academic year at the Newberry Library.”

“Here’s the top 10 breweries in the Midwest according to us and our readers, based on the criteria of innovation, overall quality, integrity and attitude, monsterism, and availability.”

“People who share ideas in large groups tend to stagnate rather than innovate. They “glom onto” popular ideas and then don’t pursue new discoveries or breakthroughs because they’ve already accepted the common wisdom of the crowd.”

“In GEEP many individuals interact in real-time playing simple games through the web. Our goal with GEEP is to scientifically observe, explain, and model how groups of people behave when their behavior depends on the behaviors of others around them.”

good photos. “There’s been an inordinate amount of interest in raccoon here. It may come as a surprise that raccoon is easily available in the city without the bother of trapping it yourself or the expense of dining at Moto.”

“In short, badly managed organisations with computers will stay badly managed. That has been the lesson from private business, and it equally applies to the public sector. That is reason for disappointment, but also for hope.”

“3. Sunday Soup raises money for artists and other project oriented individuals. Good soup can be made for very cheap and can be sold for a decent price. The profit made from the soup then goes into a fund.”

“I’m a jazz musician. I know what I am. Whether the music you think I’m professing is jazz or not is kinda not my problem.”

“Michael Ruhlman and Tony Bourdain have concocted The Golden Clog Awards, a quirky little awards event born out of “too many beers and late night yakitori,” as Bourdain explained to Eater yesterday.”

“If this word, music, is sacred and reserved for eighteenth- and nineteenth-century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.”