It's seven minutes in heaven (or at least the credit crisis version of heaven, which is pretty hellish.)
This thing went viral *fast*. Within about 2 hours, showed up all over Twitter, Digg, and finance blogs. And rightly so.
I have a long-standing interest in prediction markets and their application for fun and profit (our PubFight game is showing some interesting applications there -- http://www.bncpubfight.ca). This is a great post about where prediction markets do and don't work by Chris Masse, who thinks about little else.
Fear of failure, Tom Waits, fairy juice, and poems like freight trains across the prairies -- this talk has everything. I admit I rolled my eyes at the phenomenon of Eat, Pray, Love, but now I regret my cynicism in the face of her heartfelt and articulate commitment to the writing life.
