{"id":5511,"date":"2013-01-13T21:20:09","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T02:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/?p=5511"},"modified":"2013-01-13T21:22:03","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T02:22:03","slug":"the-sunday-diigo-links-post-weekly-190","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2013\/01\/13\/the-sunday-diigo-links-post-weekly-190\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"diigo-linkroll\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/37541\/how-guns-became-gadgets-lightweight-easy-to-use-and-more-effective-than-ever\/\">How guns became gadgets\u2014lightweight, easy to use, and more effective than ever &#8211; Quartz<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">Such a good point&#8230;<br \/>\nQUOTE<br \/>\nThe AR-15 shows how guns have become gadgets, thanks to technological change and an army of fanboys connected over the Internet. It\u2019s a military weapon in the hands of civilians, so exquisitely designed that it might as well have been invented in Cupertino by Apple. It\u2019s the iPhone 5 of guns, only instead of an app ecosystem, it has an ecosystem of parts and ammunition designed to make it as effective as possible.<br \/>\nUNQUOTE<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><span>tags:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/guns\">guns<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/quartz\">quartz<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/gadgets\">gadgets<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/socialcritique\">socialcritique<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flavorwire.com\/360735\/12-horrible-plans-for-new-york-that-thankfully-never-happened\/view-all\">12 Horrible Plans for New York That (Thankfully) Never Happened \u2013 Flavorwire<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">It seems every major city (and some not-so-major ones) has a catalog of nightmare plans like this. Here&#8217;s one for NYC:<br \/>\nQUOTE<br \/>\nThere have been some epically bad plans for New York City over the years, like drying up the rivers, building an underground city, and encasing Midtown in a bubble.<br \/>\nUNQUOTE<br \/>\nRead on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><span>tags:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/nyc\">nyc<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/unbuilt\">unbuilt<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/urban_planning\">urban_planning<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/flavorwire\">flavorwire<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/2012\/22_4_self-help-books.html\">The Paperback Quest for Joy by Laura Vanderkam, City Journal Autumn 2012<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">Interesting survey and critique of the self-help category.<br \/>\nQUOTE<br \/>\nStill, just because there\u2019s plenty to criticize doesn\u2019t mean that there isn\u2019t plenty that\u2019s worthwhile, too. As Gretchen Rubin points out, all branches of knowledge have their quacks: \u201cWhen you have your astronomy, then you get your astrology\u2014and we have our own astrologers in this neck of the woods.\u201d Nonetheless, \u201cthe greatest minds throughout history have thought about things like self-knowledge and self-control and how to live a good life. I don\u2019t know why it\u2019s now branded as snake-oil stuff.\u201d Even the most over-the-top books offer a real benefit: they encourage the virtue of self-examination. To read self-help is to take stock of one\u2019s self and to ask what kind of life one wants to lead.<\/p>\n<p>These are profound issues, and what the genre\u2019s critics sometimes miss, too, is that self-help readers are well equipped to explore them. That\u2019s because the people who buy these books are, like all book buyers, \u201cpretty comfortable,\u201d says John Duff of Penguin. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be that middle-class person, reasonably well-educated\u201d and in \u201cvery rarefied\u201d company, as \u201cour market for all books is really very limited. Most people stop reading when they leave school.\u201d Those who don\u2019t stop probably have their acts together. Call it the paradox of self-help. \u201cThe type of person who values self-control and self-improvement is the type of person who would seek more of it in a self-help book,\u201d Whelan says. \u201cSo it\u2019s not the unemployed crazy lady sitting on the couch eating potato chips who reads self-help. It\u2019s the educated, affluent, probably fairly successful person who wants to better themselves.\u201d<br \/>\nUNQUOTE<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><span>tags:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/self_esteem\">self_esteem<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/self_help\">self_help<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/city_journal\">city_journal<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/laura_vanderkam\">laura_vanderkam<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"diigo-ps\">Posted from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\">Diigo<\/a>. The rest of my favorite links are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How guns became gadgets\u2014lightweight, easy to use, and more effective than ever &#8211; Quartz Such a good point&#8230; QUOTE The AR-15 shows how guns have become gadgets, thanks to technological change and an army of fanboys connected over the Internet. 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