10/21/06 Links of the Week…ish
1. Why YouTube Won’t Suffer Napster’s Fate
2. Skin Ages Faster in Women Than Men
3. The original Spam tries to reclaim its name
4. Trojan Horse Video Where can one sneak a Trojan horse into in the modern day? via.
5. What is the Extinction Rate of Administrative Agencies?
“[T]he business world is exhibiting the complex system behavior of self-organizing criticality: on the whole, the business system maintains a long term stability at its core, but on its surface is a wildly dynamic changing of the guard.
Does this occur in legal institutions as well? Sure it does. For example, based on the Government Manual for each turn of the decade year from 1950 - 2000, in 1950 there were 48 federal independent agencies, ranging from the Phillipine War Damage Commission to the Securities and Exchange Commission. How many of those had gone “extinct” by 2000? The answer is 35.“
