Links, Links, Links

Some of them Quirky:

• Turning Criminals into Businesspeople (guffaws aside), "Her premise is that many criminals are intelligent people with good heads for business and healthy appetites for risk, and that these traits can be put to productive use." (The Economist)
• It's also good advice for anyone who designs business systems: It's always your fault. (Coding Horror Blog)
  
• If you didn't know the origins of the word "tip" was "To Insure Promptness", according to some, it should be renamed to "To Insure Prejudice". (Freakonomics Blog)
• For the jaded (and there are a lot of you out there): Nice guys finish first. Apparently we are happiest when we spend money on others, and those who punish others the least earn the biggest rewards. (Freakonomics Blog)