Sam & Tivian

Here’s some cool stuff to check out that I’ve consumed lately, including a couple things from TED:

5 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Kids Do
Use knives, play with fire, let them drive, and a few more. Excellent talk along the lines of Jim Hancock’s 10 Things We Should Never Say To Kids and even Bernard’s post Nontrepreneur Nation. We gotta let our kids live a little! (Not that I have any)

Watch 5 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Kids Do

Steven Levitt (Freakonomics): The Economics of Gangs
Here’s a real interesting history of crack cocaine and gangs, and an analysis of cash flow inside of an African-American gang, and even how the gang’s organization chart is set up. Turns out gangs are a lot like McDonald’s franchises and crack dealers only make about $3.50/hr.  The only thing that bothered me was that he kinda makes light of a serious situation…pretty stereotypical ivory tower type, I guess.

Watch Steven Levitt — Why do crack dealers still live with their moms?

Evernote — Human Memory Extension

Have you ever had a great idea for a program but just never had the time to get around to it? I used to wish that I could just take pictures of things I needed to remember, and be able to search for them later. Now with Evernote I can! I can snap a picture with my iPhone, e-mail it to Evernote, and back at my laptop I can use Spotlight to search for that photo (yes, Evernote can read text in a picture). If you want to try it out, I have 20 invitations left (its still in beta)

Check out Evernote