Year in Ideas

Today’s NY Times Magazine features its 6th annual year in ideas. Its editors and writers “have located the peaks and valleys of ingenuity — the human cognitive faculty deployed with intentions good and bad, purposes serious and silly, consequences momentous and morbid.” Some of my favorite selections:

• Misery Chic
• Narcissistic Celebrities
• For-Profit Philanthropy
• Reverse Graffiti
• Smart Elevators
• Web-Based Microfinancing
• The Return of the Corporate State
• The Diplomat-Parking-Violation Corruption Index

December 10th, 2006