Linkpile (via Delicious)

• Attention grabber: Marginal Utility adds another thought to the just-linked Laura Miller essay, addressing the possibilities of “unremembered pleasures.”
• Why can’t we concentrate?: If you can focus long enough to read this, you may learn something. “While it’s one thing to accommodate more information, it’s another to engage with it fundamentally, in a way that allows us to perceive underlying patterns and to take concepts apart so that we can put them back together in new and constructive ways.”
• Studying “The holier-than-thou effect.”: “Long known that people tend to be overly optimistic about their own abilities and fortunes — to overestimate their standing in class, their discipline, their sincerity. But this self-inflating bias may be even stronger when it comes to moral judgment, and it can greatly influence how people judge others’ actions, and ultimately their own.”
• Multi-Platform ‘Mackenzie Blue’ Arrives: Brands mentioned, but author says no paid deals.
• Default Avatars critiqued: By Social Images: Seeing Is Believing.
• Ambivalent Parenting 101: Latest from Adult Education: Brooklyn’s favorite useless lecture series. Tuesday May 5.