links for 2008-02-28

Posted on February 28, 2008
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Microsoft fined 899 million Euros for crimes against humanity (or antitrust violations) - MacUser

The problem with having more money than god is that everybody wants a piece of it. So Microsoft has been discovering for the last several years. Now the European Commission has bellied up to the bar once again,

(tags: Microsofot Antitrust Fine)
Q&A: Microsoft’s Multi-Billion Dollar EU Fine - Forbes.com

How does one pay such a large sum? These days no one writes a check that large, and sources at Microsoft and the EC seem to not get paid enough to know first-hand how it would work either. A likely scenario is a bank-to-bank money transfer. LOL

(tags: Microsoft Fine)
The Advantages of Closing a Few Doors - New York Times

Even when the penalties for switching grew stiffer — besides losing a click, the players had to pay a cash fee — the students kept losing money by frantically keeping all their doors open. EXTREMELY interesting. via Maoxian. Print and keep.

(tags: Behaioral Science Human Psychology)
Dan Ariely - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The guy behind the closed doors research: Ariely was an undergraduate at Tel Aviv University. AH an Israeli.

(tags: People Cognitive Psychology)
Predictably / Irrational » Book

More fun reading.

(tags: Psychology Economics Behaviour)
How it works | Learn it lists

(tags: Language Learning Online Tools)