Linkpile

• The story of a New Orleans sign-painter: Artist Lester Carey: He isn’t a “street artist” celebrated on blogs or courted by corporate marketers. But he’s as “authentic” — a word those folks tend to be obsessed with — as it gets. This is a post by me, on one of my other sites.
• Burritos and Socially-Conscious Docs: Summarizes company that made Food Inc., and sponsorship deal with Chipotle chain. Interesting.
• Temptation More Powerful Than Individuals Realize: “The research found the sample, on average, displayed a “restraint bias,” causing individuals to miscalculate the amount of temptation they could truly handle, in turn leading to a greater likelihood of indulging impulsive or addictive behavior.”
• Video Blogger Lauren Luke’s Product Range Hits Sephora: “The YouTube star launched her new line last week.”
• Be consistent!: Something for your next redesign meeting. Via Swiss Miss.
• The evolutionary origin of depression?: “Dr Nesse’s hypothesis is that, as pain stops you doing damaging physical things, so low mood stops you doing damaging mental ones—in particular, pursuing unreachable goals. Pursuing such goals is a waste of energy and resources. Therefore, he argues, there is likely to be an evolved mechanism that identifies certain goals as unattainable and inhibits their pursuit—and he believes that low mood is at least part of that mechanism.” Via Mindhacks.
• 10 Rules That Govern Groups: And group formation. Also via Mindhacks.
• Kneeling Man Figurine | Significant Objects: “Hell, of course, has a hierarchy.” Story by Glen David Gold

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