Sexy Memorization, and Other Finals Weekend Links

Maureen Dowd's March op-ed on  raunchy memorization techniques

Here are a few quirky items from my saved links folder, and one very good piece from today. First the quirk:

1. Deeper voices are more persuasive.

2. South Korean citizens "roam cities secretly videotaping fellow citizens breaking the law, deliver the evidence to government officials and collect the rewards."

3. Spiders can be assholes to each other.

4. Our hands and the future of interactive design

And from today, Matt Yglesias has a great post here on the Egyptian economy in the wake of the Arab Spring. I'll add this chart, which I think goes a long way toward explaining the seeds of Egyptian political revolution.