• The irrationality of voters, according to Bryan Caplan, an economist at George Mason University, and dissected by the NYT’s Gary J. Bass. (via 3qd)
• The irrationality of eBay auctions, or what happens when you put down a secret reserve price on your items for sale.



• Pointillism as critique of consumer culture: Check out a recreation of Seurat’s Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, made of 106,000 aluminum cans, the number used in the US every 30 secs. (via 3qd; image from Chris Jordan’s site)



• Fair Trade Sports — which gives you an alternative to soccer balls and other sports stuff made in sweatshops — gets some ink in the LA Daily News. Find out more about the company here; their balls’re made with eco-certified latex.

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