Linkpile

• Charitable Giving Fell Last Year, But Didn’t Dive: “The biggest decline — almost 13 percent — affected human services groups providing aid to the disadvantaged.”
• The Least Appropriate Wedding Songs Ever: On NPR. “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling,” etc.
• Zoot Suit: Excellent appreciation of this iconic fashion on Studio 360.
• Buying In, A Book About Murketing: Reviewed by Prohiphop.com.
• Q&A: With Zulkey.com.
• Freelance nation: “Companies want a workforce they can switch on and off as needed.”
• Why You Should be Short Newspapers, and Long the NYT: Noam Scheiber: “Talk to people who work at the Times and you detect a sense of beseigement–all these bloggers who freeload off their content but never miss an opportunity to kick them in the teeth. My advice: Don’t worry about it; the Internet is your friend. It’s destroying your competition faster than it’s destroying you, which is ultimately going to make you more profitable and influential.”
• Plastic Flashback: A visual history of the credit card.
• Big Pharma says your mysterious pain is real: The business and ethics of treating possibly “unreal pain.”

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