Delicious LiveJournal Links for 12-1-2008

[andrewducker]

• Map of the Market
  Very nice visualisation of the US stock market, broken down by type of company.
  (tags: web2.0 visualization tools technology stocks trading)
• Group therapy "beats depression"
  The study, funded by the Medical Research Council, found MBCT, developed in 2002 by a team of psychologists from Canada, Oxford, and Cambridge, was actually more effective than medication in improving patients" quality of life.
  (tags: counselling cbt meditation psychology)
• Alone Together
  In American lore, the small town is the archetypal community, a state of grace from which city dwellers have fallen (thus capitulating to all sorts of political ills like, say, socialism). Even among die-hard New Yorkers, those who could hardly imagine a life anywhere else, youâ™ll find people who secretly harbor nostalgia for the small village theyâ™ve never known. Yet the picture of citiesâ”and New York in particularâ”that has been emerging from the work of social scientists is that the people living in them are actually less lonely. Rather than driving people apart, large population centers pull them together, and as a rule tend to possess greater community virtues than smaller ones.
  (tags: cities society sociology)
• Master Foo Defines Enterprise Data
  Very funny, very wise.
  (tags: management excel spreadsheet database enterprise)
• Black Mesa Mod for Half-Life 2
  An awesome trailer. I"ll be downloading this and playing it through, if they ever actually finish it.
  (tags: games HL2 half-life)
• Naked Movie Spoilers
  100 movie spoilers in under 4 minutes in one take. Naked.
  (tags: movies funny spoilers)

Comments

[andrewducker]

I do much the same myself, at least twice a week.

And it's an interesting one. I'm much happier in the city, because there are so many more people that I can find a few that I like a lot, whereas when living in smaller places there's not the population to support that.