Lazy Linking, 21st in an Occasional Series
Good stuff on the Internets:
* Love love love what David Cameron is doing in Britain. Hey US Republicans, see what good stuff the Tories are up to, and allied with the Liberal Democrats no less.
* How do you ensure that not enough affordable housing will be built? Make it really hard for developers to make money.
* It turns out big boxes may not necessarily be better than traditional mixed-use development at generating tax revenues for jurisdictions.
* Here's one way to avoid becoming obese - commute by transit.
* Can you bank time? My friend Imanni Wilkes thinks so.
* Shameless work-promotion - we are half the answer to that burning question asked by the local paper, What do you get when you cross an economics firm with a public finance consulting firm?
* Tim Harford correctly distinguishes between creating jobs and creating jobs that matter.
* Eleven experts chime in on what happens when bikes and pedestrians compete with cars for road space.
* Leave it to Israel, rich in innovation and poor in water, to point the way to cutting-edge technologies for water conservation.
Comments
Just in case you're not aware of how to do this, you just insert this:
target="_blank"
in the middle of the link HTML (the tag that looks like this: <a href= ...). It's a small thing, but you don't want a link page to be overwritten by the content of one of the links, when the reader clicks on it. Often it doesn't matter too much, but for example, your FastCompany link pops an ad up as soon as you get to it, so if you click past the ad to the article, and then attempt to use the browser "back" feature to get back to the Lee Huang Page, it gets tricky to say the least.
Answer: because 1) in a number of contexts, such a Gmail emails, links always open new windows/tabs, and 2) it's easier (for me anyway) to imagine someone frustrated that a page of links was replaced by one of the linked pages, than to imagine them frustrated that the original page was *not* replaced.