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Her Random Scribbling (her.randomscribbling.com):
… The average age of the Wii player is 29, but on the retirement community scene, bingo is looking a little like last year’s thing, as video games have recently grabbed a spot as the hot new activity. (0)A brief history of profiling, including an interview with profiler-founder John Douglas. File away for writing research. (0) How to start your life over from scratch? at Ask MetaFilter. Details of interest to me for several writing projects. ( …

Her Random Scribbling (her.randomscribbling.com):
… A brief history of profiling, including an interview with profiler-founder John Douglas. File away for writing research. …

Bread and Circuses (breadandcircuses.com):
… When you catch him... he’ll be wearing a double-breasted suit.”Dangerous Minds: Criminal Profiling Made Easya new yorker article by malcom gladwell on criminal profiling. interesting read. not to be a spoiler, but he's a little skeptical. Entered by jeff ronk on 11.08.2007 at 8:49 Comments : 0 …

Unlikely Words : A blog with delusions of grandeur. (www.unlikelywords.com):
… t want to deal with him. -Sort of long article about place kickers by Michael Lewis (Moneyball, The Blind Side) in the New York Times. Focuses on how a kicker can never win because he’s always supposed succeed. -Not so long article in the New Yorker by Malcolm Gladwell (The Tipping Point, Blink) about criminal profilers. Basically, they give profiles filled with contradictory, half facts, so that regardless of who is caught, the profile rings true. -Super long profile about David Simon, the creator of The Wire. It’ …

Skepsis Blog | Een kritische kijk op buitengewone beweringen (www.skepsis.nl):
… .De auteur, Malcolm Gladwell, laat zien dat deze basis nogal dun is. Zelfs de casussen waarop de helden hun roem baseren, lijken bij nadere analyse op een andere wijze opgelost te zijn. Een heel lezenswaardig artikel, zowel op de site van deNew Yorkerte lezen, als op de site van de auteur, die overigens een van mijn favoriete non-fictie schrijvers van dit moment is. Doordat de Amerikaans politie steeds sterker leunt op profilers, hebben die er voor gezorgd dat er tijd verloren is in onderzoeken in …

Bread and Circuses (breadandcircuses.com):
… Dangerous Minds: Criminal Profiling Made Easya new yorker article by malcom gladwell on criminal profiling. interesting read. not to be a spoiler, but he's a little skeptical. by jeff ronk Comments : 0 …

Baudrillard's Bastard (baudrillardsbastard.blogspot.com):
… about the war. In a disturbing twist on the Orwellian nightmare, the American people have become their own thought police, purging the news of unwanted and unwelcome features with an efficiency that government censors and military flacks can only envy."Dangerous Minds: Criminal Profiling Made Easy"[The New Yorker] We are now so familiar with crime stories told through the eyes of the profiler that it is easy to lose sight of how audacious the genre is. The traditional detective story begins with the body and centers on the detective’s search …

Biro Sketchbook — Monkey powered fighting action (birosketchbook.com):
… Dept. of Criminology: Dangerous Minds: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker …

Blogenheimer (blogenheimer.blogspot.com):
… Malcolm Gladwell argues that criminal profiling is a hoax in thisNew Yorker article. …

3protons, 3пр0тона, 3pr0toni, 3πρωτόνια (3protons.wordpress.com):
… provided endless surprises as Harvey dug into stories behind the stories of famous events and people”. Malcolm Gladwell is the genre’s inheritor. He uses interconnectedness to astonishing effect, like in this The New Yorker article:Dangerous Minds, Criminal Profiling Made EasyHe has a web site. — Oh, if you missed it, James Burke’s Wikipedia entry includes this bit of funny trivia: The BBC topical comedy series Not The 9 O’ Clock News included a sketch in which an actor imitating [James] Burke delivered a …

ScienceBlogs (www.scienceblogs.com):
… It's good to have Gladwell back. I've missed his writing these last few months. (To learn about his next book, check out Kottke.) His article this week was on the (pseudo)science that iscriminal profiling: In the case of Derrick Todd Lee, the Baton Rouge serial killer, the F.B.I. profile described the offender as a white male blue-collar worker, between twenty-five and thirty-five years old, who "wants to be seen as someone who is attractive and …

MemeStreams | Twice Filtered (www.memestreams.net):
… Dept. of Criminology: Dangerous Minds | The New Yorker Topic: Society 7:11 am EST, Nov 8, 2007 Malcolm Gladwell is back on the beat. Criminal profiling made easy. It's like precrime in reverse.Dept. of Criminology: Dangerous Minds | The New YorkerThread [1] - Link - Reply Celebrating Food, Feces, and 3 Billion Years of Evolution Topic: Science 6:14 am EST, Nov 8, 2007 It hasn't been all play. Be sure to watch the video. (Photography by Frans Lanting, music by Philip Glass, video by …

403 Forbidden (matthewthorburn.blogspot.com):
… Just as I've cancelled my subscription (how many mags can one man read? -- and so much of it's online anyhow...) The New Yorker has a really interestingarticle on FBI profilers …

ScienceBlogs (scienceblogs.com):
… It's good to have Gladwell back. I've missed his writing these last few months. (To learn about his next book, check out Kottke.) His article this week was on the (pseudo)science that iscriminal profiling: In the case of Derrick Todd Lee, the Baton Rouge serial killer, the F.B.I. profile described the offender as a white male blue-collar worker, between twenty-five and thirty-five years old, who "wants to be seen as someone who is attractive and …

Hermenautic Circle blog (hermenaut.org):
… It's good to have Gladwell back. I've missed his writing these last few months. (To learn about his next book, check out Kottke.) His article this week was on the (pseudo)science that iscriminal profiling: In the case of Derrick Todd Lee, the Baton Rouge serial killer, the F.B.I. profile described the offender as a white male blue-collar worker, between twenty-five and thirty-five years old, who "wants to be seen as someone who is attractive and …

The Frontal Cortex (scienceblogs.com):
… criminal profiling: In the case of Derrick Todd Lee, the Baton Rouge serial killer, the F.B.I. profile described the offender as a white male blue-collar worker, between twenty-five and thirty-five years old, who "wants to be seen as someone who is attractive and …

Big Cynic (www.bigcynic.com):
… compares …

Dubious Quality (dubiousquality.blogspot.com):
… here. The most interesting read of the day comes from Joe, who sent me a link to an article about profilers of serial killers. It's a gripping, excellent read, and it has a twist, or several. Read ithere. From Sirius, a link to a polished copper keyboard that is a steampunk work of art. It's completely stunning, and you can see it here. And if you're wondering just how stunning, it's being auctioned on eBay, and the bid right now is over $4,500. Yikes. …

newfocus.hu (newfocus.hu):
… James Surowiecki: Performance-pay Perplexes One lesson of the current market chaos, then, is that it’s hard to get incentives right. 2007-11-07 to breakdown, business, finance, hedge funds, markets by soobrosaMalcolm Gladwell: Dangerous MindsCriminal profiling made easy. 2007-11-06 to bestof, criminology, psychology by metatron May we congratulate you on your divorce Couples are commemorating shattered vows with the same kind of fanfare accorded their marriage -- complete with …

Ten Second News (www.tensecondnews.com):
… Dangerous Minds: Criminal profiling made easy (Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker)We are now so familiar with crime stories told through the eyes of the profiler that it is easy to lose sight of how audacious the genre is. The traditional detective story begins with the body and centers on the detective’s search for the culprit. …