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Just when you thought you knew just how dysfunctional the SEC was, it turns out to be even worse — WaPo
I think it was Goldilocks, not the bears — Reuters
John Gapper responds to me with a 950-word blog comment. What a mensch! — Reuters
Quote of the Day: CNBC is to Advisors as… — Felder
Venezuelan oil chart of the day — Gregor
In Brooklyn, the MTA turns its new LIRR train station into a tomb with gigantic security sarcophagi — Streetsblog
Some good advice for the NYT, which has already said that homepage visits won’t count towards your metered allocation — Atlantic
Fantastic open letter from OK Go about why record labels won’t allow YouTube videos to go viral — OK Go Forums
Do women have more unreasonable standards for attractiveness than men? — OK Cupid
First look at a Spike Jonze’s experimental, branded short film for Absolut — Fast Company
Many thanks to Richard Perez-Pena for describing me as “a respected writer on media” — NYT
When Gourmet got complaints about change in direction, “Reichl hired staff to handwrite notes in response” — Zocalo
The Faces Of Larry Summers And Paul Volcker Say It All — Clusterstock
Negative-correlation-between-price-and-quality datapoint of the day: the best jeans cost $32 — NYT
The world’s first street art disaster movie — BBC
Go read Paul Smalera on the NYT paywall — True/Slant
Matt Goldstein’s mugshot is being circulated around hedge-fund security guards — Reuters
Dan Roth joining Fortune to run Fortune.com — All Things D
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From the OKCupid link:
> One interesting thing seems to be going on here: when the best-looking men write the worst-looking women, their message success rate takes a big hit. The knee-jerk response would be to somehow chalk it up to hunky spammers, but we very carefully control for that in these articles, and in any event why would better-looking girls be drastically more susceptible to it?
I really need to quit going through life with the assumption that everyone knows what “adverse selection” is.